Creatures Caves

(Originaly posted on Creaturetopia)

I need help with one C3-Ds agent me and Razgriz is co working on,called the Lifephiria plant.
As allways - started off with me making a sprite for a agent idea of my own and
Razgriz kindly wanted to help me bring it to life.
He done most of the coding ,but it dosn't work quite the way it should yet,but
with some changes I think it won't be long til it maybe will be fixed,and thats why I
hope soneone here maybe can help by pointing out what can be done.
I just come to realise that the DS Lemon pod vendor seem to work
much the way I want it to,but Razgriz find it quite complex but still
wanna have a try on it thought that I could maybe get a answer here on how
it can be done. Here is a image of what the plant look like.

Im going to try my best to explain what it is supposed to do and
what the current ingame beta does for now,along with the similarness points of the
Ds Lemon pod vendor .

Here is a breif explenation on what It is supposed to do:
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Meant to be kinda like a pretty decoration when idle,
and act kinda like a vendor (but is a plant).

¤ A plant that when clicked on it drops it's fullgrown flower to the ground,
after a short while a new flower grows quickly back to a fullgrown flower (along with a sound playing,matching the grow back animation).

¤ When eating 2 or 3 of this flower makes a creature age once

¤ when picked up by hand/creature the flower is held upright.

and here is what it does ingame:
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¤ for now - it inject the plant without the adult flower on..
(this image was made - so I could make the flower seperate when it is going to fall to the ground,
and was originaly not the first image in the sprite set,it was image set as image 4,but razgriz thought if he changed it to the first,it would
work better )

¤ duo to this,only when you click on the plant it produce a adult flower by
the "grow back" sound start to play and ends as slowly the flower grows to fullsize and then quickly drops to the ground,
so when the plant is idle again, it's flowerless -_-'

¤ One flower make a creature age once...

Here is a help picture I made for Razgriz to try explain what I meant by
seperate flower image - the drop down effect and if the flower could be droped in a specific area.

Also, Razgriz said he found a code that would make the upright flower image appear,
but said he couldn't make it work..so now I wonder,any clue how to make this possible?

The Lemon Ds Pod similarness:
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Everyone here who play DS knows about the Lemon pod vendor in the
upper left corner of the norn meso.
The lemon vendor vends lemons,but after some few clicks,
it start to harvest the lemons and they grow back to full size and then vend another lemon right after.

The similarness is listed here:

Both lifephiria and the lemonpod act that when just clicking once
(Not coutning the extra few clicks that has to be made to trigger the harvest part)
the fruit/flower fall down and right after harvest/grows back again to be ready for being activated again.
Both also have two sounds - one for droping the fruit/flower and one from the harvest/growing back flower.

I think the DS lemonvendor here acts as close to what I want,
it just have some small differ,but the idea is quite pretty same.

so,once again,here is a better veiw of the plant again of what it should do/and what it does now.
This is just kind of a end summary and a better comperation explaining * hopes at least*.
also note: this is not the exact comperation explenation seen above.

Current beta version - not acting as it should :
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¤ Injects with the no adult flower on it

¤ Click on it and it grows (slowly) a flower wich quickly drops it - leaving a plant without one flower,making it not so pretty..

¤ The "grow back" sound was meant to be near the end - but it play in the start..

¤ one flower age a creature once

¤ The pickup image of the flower got replaced with the lay on ground image,as the code didn't work for it to change to another image when picking it up.

Things that was meant to be:
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¤ flower facing up image for the "pick up" part

¤ inject the plant with the correct plant with the adult flower on it.

¤ Once clicked - the flower drops and then after a while ( Like the DS Lemon Pod) grows back a new flower (with the sound matching the speed of animation of it)
That way the flower look pretty as idle too and the adult flower is ready to be droped everytime you click as it allways grows back a new.
(Note - hopefuly animation speed could be like this - the sound itself is 1,30 sec long)

¤ as said before, 2-3 flowers make a creature age once

so is there any chance this can be fixed ?
I appreciate any kind of help you can give!

We realy want to make this work as it should and be able to release it so anyone can enjoy it.