[XP] Storing steps of an event in a variable.

[Toams]

Hey Ho.

I was puzzled about the way I should make my system.
The situation is this:

Spoiler: screen

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/5486/somerandomscreeney8.png[/img]

The '25' on the right is the amount of steps you are allowed.
The purpose of the level is to hit the highlighted square.
(within the allowed step ratio)

That lousy character is an event, which moves just like the player would.
(the player is somewhere there too, but I've got my reasons for not just using that)
Press up, and it goes up, press down, it goes down, etc.
Now this may not be the perfect example, but hey.

I would like to request a (and I assume it would be rather small) script which stores the amount of steps taken by that event (or some other random event) in a (or multiple other) variable(s).

 

[Beran]

*cough* after testing it, that sure as hell didn't work XD
I wanna get this to work now :P
     

 

[Toams]

Ok, this was already a little to 'sophisticated' and a little too simple at the same time.
I just wanted to add '1' to a variable whenever a specific event moved.
(because in some levels there'll be three moving events)

However, since I just wanted the script to add '1' I tried what you said, but modified the script call to:

loop do
  if Input.repeat?(Input::UP ||       
  Input::DOWN || Input::LEFT || 
  Input:: RIGHT)
    $game_variables[003] += 1
   break
  end
end

I get a 'script is hanging' error though.

 

[cheatking]

You could do it with events much esayer.

 

[Toams]

And how would I do that?

Oh, Beran, I only just read your edit :p
It'd be nice if you fixed it :]

 

[cheatking]

Something like:
Conditional brranch left is pressed
variables X - 1

Just do it for left, right, down , up

 

[Toams]

But what if you can't make a move? (IE you're stuck in a corner, or against a wall)
Then you press right, you don't move, but still you 'did a step'..

Think about it.

If it could be done with events, I'd have done it.
There's no way for an event to check whether or not you have moved.
(except for storing x and y values, and checking them,  but that's not flawless either)

 

[Beran]

Here's my setup,
First, create a new event, set up the first page like this (graphics obviously don't matter):
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/7070 ... ge1mi1.png[/img]
Next, set up the second page like so:
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1319 ... ge2cz3.png[/img]

Note: Make sure you don't have any custom scripts that use $step_var, since I've used that to stop you from using an extra in-game variable. All this does is decrease a variable whenever the player has moved a step