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Development Forum Multi-bite Foods?    Malkin    Manager     10/11/2013 What's the difference between structuring an 'eat' script for a multiple-bites food this way: scrp 2 11 4645 12 doif pose lt 3 snde "chwp" stim writ from 79 1 setv va00 pose addv va00 1 pose va00 else snde "chwp" stim writ from 79 1 kill ownr endi endm and this way: scrp 2 8 X 12 snde "chwp" stim writ from 78 1 doif pose = 4 pose 5 elif pose = 5 kill targ endi endm with the pose changes/killing after the stimulus? My TCR Norns   Peppery One Papriko   10/12/2013 The second script only proceeds to pose 5 when the current pose is EXACTLY 4. The lower poses do not proceed to pose 4 though, which creates an infinite food item if the pose is lower than 4 in the first place. Without pose 4, it does not proceed to pose 5 and only in pose 5 it is kill targ'd when eaten. Meh, I think that was a little unclear. When agents spawn, they are inititally at what, pose 0? Pose 1? The second script does not have any aging routines which handles that or the poses 2 and 3. it simply expects the agent to be directly at pose 4 already when eaten. When it is not, it jumps into neither of the doifs. It does not "age" or "get bitten off", it just remains as it is. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Moe     10/14/2013 While the second script does present the possibility of creating an infinitely edible piece of food, it also ensures that the agent won't be flipping to images it shouldn't be using. As an example, look at the first piece of script and let's assume that the food does not become edible until pose 2 (or it shouldn't be edible until pose 2 anyway), but let's say for some reason it has become edible at pose 0. Now you've got a piece of food that has more bites than intended, and is progressing through poses (0 and 1) with every bite. Imagine if 0 and 1 were "ripening" poses of a tomato. You've now got a tomato growing as it's eaten. :x What it really comes down too, is ensuring that no matter which script you use, your agent is not becoming edible unless it is at the right pose, and stays there until A. Eaten, or B. Rotten.   Mad Scientist clohse     10/14/2013 Nice explanation, Moe. I hadn't considered the possible difference between stating exactly what the pose should be as opposed to just incrementing up from the current pose. Although I should have because I have seen my fish swimming in reverse when their pose didn't change with their velocity... CLohse's Norns at the Creatures Repository   Malkin Manager     11/28/2013 When a foodstuff has been randomised with a temporary variable, as in this spritesheet, how would one go about structuring a multi-bite eat script? Is there something more elegant than the following: scrp 2 11 X 12 snde "chwp" stim writ from 79 1 *banana doif pose = 0 pose 1 elif pose = 1 pose 2 elif pose = 2 kill targ endi *chocolate doif pose = 3 pose 4 elif pose = 4 pose 5 elif pose = 5 kill targ endi *lavender doif pose = 6 pose 7 elif pose = 7 pose 8 elif pose = 8 kill targ endi *strawberry doif pose = 9 pose 10 elif pose = 10 pose 11 elif pose = 11 kill targ endi endm My TCR Norns   Peppery One Papriko   11/28/2013 When you follow my article you just need 1 doif chunk, as if animating a non-randomized agent. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Malkin Manager     12/2/2013 So in this instance, because we've randomised the base, the code would be: scrp 2 11 X 12 snde "chwp" stim writ from 79 1 doif pose = 0 pose 1 elif pose = 1 pose 2 elif pose = 2 kill targ endi endm because the pose is always relative to the base - so when we randomise it, the banana is at pose 0, so is the chocolate, etc. etc. etc. Because we've earlier decided where the foodstuff is taking the images from, all we have to do is step through those 3 frames. My TCR Norns   Peppery One Papriko   12/3/2013 Exactly that is the idea. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...

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