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 Prodigal Sock Ghosthande    |
Long story short--my critter isn't working right and I can't figure out why. It's supposed to be a larva that loops an animation as it climbs a tree, then it pupates (changes its pose to a pupa) and creates an adult. Then kills itself. For some reason, though, instead it only plays the animation once, goes to the pupa pose, then repeats the animation, goes to the pupa pose again, and so on. It repeats this process infinitely. The basic animation and movement sequence is what is supposed to loop, but instead it only happens once. The whole sequence of climbing and then pupating is supposed to happen only once, but instead it loops! Why is this happening? [edit] I've even tried taking out the loop thing and making it repeat using REPS and REPE instead, but it still repeats the whole segment. 
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 Malkin Manager |
Have you tried investigating the code of the C3 butterfly? That does roughly the same thing as what you're trying to do here. My TCR Norns |
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Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
I know, but C3 .cos files are horrendously long, they don't tell you what anything does or what any of the variables mean--at least I have a code that works for the most part, and that I am already familiar with. The critter itself actually works quite well, it's just this particular climbing/pupating segment that isn't working. |
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 AquaShee |
I tried my best to read all that, but it was kinda hard to figure things out. Here's how I would've done it. I always give my critters a "target" variable, usually ov99 or something. When they are hungry, I run the subroutine to find food, and point ov99 at the food if it isn't already pointing at somethign tasty. When they want to mate, ov99 points at a mate, and so on. This way, I can just check if my critter is targetting the right object, and if it is, I run a general approach subroutine. Moving towards a mate, piece of cheese or a toy all use the same approach routing. If the target can be touched, I move on to the interaction. The most useful part is that the timer script gets run through completely each time, without any unnecessary looping inside the script itself. It just goes: Are you hungry? Have you found food? Are you near it? Take a step... Are you hungry? The same way would work great for your bugs: Are you old enough to pupate? Have you found a tree? Are you near it? Take a step. Old enough? Found tree? Near it? Ok, climb up. Old enough? Found tree? Near it? Reached top yet? Ok, climb some more,... And so on. The C3 butterflies (and most other agents in C3) work the same way. Otherwise the timer script would get interrupted and would have to start over if any other script got called. The Community Scribble: make (y)our own metaroom! |
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Malkin Manager |
Have you tried splitting up the subroutine, say by giving the pupate section its own subroutine? My TCR Norns |
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Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
Not yet. I ought to, though. The most useful part is that the timer script gets run through completely each time, without any unnecessary looping inside the script itself. That's a good idea, I'll have to try that too. That's the strategy I used to make the Archie work. [edit] Awesome, it's working now!  I broke it up into different stages and used variables to force it to go through each stage, pretty much as AquaShee described. Little larva hums and haws for a while but always does his stuff like he's supposed to. Thank you both for your help! Now if nothing else goes seriously wrong maybe I can have this finished by Christmas after all... |
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Malkin Manager |
Squee! My TCR Norns |
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AquaShee |
Woo! I'm glad to hear it works now. I'm glad you understood what I meant to explain, it's a tricky concept. I had to learn it the hard way myself. The Botanoid, for example, doesn't use this technique, it just waits and advances a pose running through the timer script just once. But when ettins pushed the 'plant', it always curled back into a seed because the Timer script just starts over. This is why the Botanoid cannot be seen by creatures at the moment. I should update and re-release it. The Community Scribble: make (y)our own metaroom! |
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Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
The silly thing is, I've actually used that strategy once before, for the Archie, but I totally forgot why I did it that way. |
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AquaShee |
Because it works great, that's why! The Blackbird uses it too, as does the BSTL Machine. Even better is that I can just copy subroutines between agents now because they are so useful. The Community Scribble: make (y)our own metaroom! |
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