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 Home  Forum Index Neverwinter Nights 2 NWN2: Builders - NWN2 Scripting Tracking gold?
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Quilistan
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 Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:00AM |
Is there a way to track the amount of gold a player has collected via increasing a variable?
Something similar to an "OnAcquireItem (gold)" script that each time a gold piece is gained it can then increase a variable on the PC?
So far my brain hasn't found a way, was wondering if any of you had an idea?
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Lugaid of the Red Stripes
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:55AM |
A crude way would be to do something on the module heartbeat. You would have two variables, one called 'iCurrentGP' and 'iNetGPGain'. Every heartbeat, the script compares the PC's gold to iCurrentGP. If PC gold is greater, the difference is added to iNetGPGain. Then iCurrentGP is reset to the PC's current GP level.
The player could get around it by using a store while paused, selling some items and using the money to buy other items before the heartbeat can count it.
Either that, or you get every source of GP in your mod to start issuing W2's.
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Quilistan
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 06:20AM |
Quote: Posted 11/03/09 05:55 (GMT) by Lugaid of the Red Stripes
Either that, or you get every source of GP in your mod to start issuing W2's.
lol
The pausing wouldn't be an issue as this is for a PW, so players can't pause.
The next question is how resource expensive would this be?
I know I could do some sort of psuedo-heartbeat also to lessen the load. Would something like this be a problem though?
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Lugaid of the Red Stripes
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 06:54AM |
I don't know about PW's, it'll probably depend on the number of players you expect to have, and how you manage to keep track of the variables as players leave and join.
Generally, scripts, including heartbeats, don't really affect performance unless they start cycling through hundreds of different permutations, like a hundred creature heartbeats that each look at the hundred other creatures in the area. Compared with what it takes to rotate, shade, and texture a single polygon, scripts are pretty lightweight.
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Quilistan
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Joined: 29 Jul 2002 |
Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:39PM |
Thanks a bunch for the info.
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