Mirage Source

Okay, I've possessed myself to expand on this a bit.

Difficulty: 4/5 Requires knowledge of VB/MSE programming

Original Post can be found here: http://ms.shannaracorp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=174

The flag idea and quest was taken from Unkown_raven

This version of the code uses tile, which you can set with the Mapeditor. I'll give an example of how to set up each quest at the end of this tutorial. There are probably easier ways to do what I have but this works for me .

Let's do the client side first:

Open up frmMirage

On picMapEditor add an option button to your attributes frame, name it optQuest.

Double click it and add this to the code:


Now, Open up modGameLogic and in the Sub GameLoop find:



Under it add:



Then in Sub EditorMouseDown find:



Under it, add:



Now, open modConstants and find:



And under it, add:



Now open modGlobals:

Anywhere in that module, add:


Okay, now we're going to create the form that will be used to choose which quest we want to start when the player walks over the specified tile.

So, add a new form and name it frmQuest

Add a scroll bar:
Name: scrlQuestNum
Max: 250

Add a Label:
Name: lblQuestNum

Add a command button:
Name: cmdOK
Caption: Okay

Add a command button:
Name: cmdCancel
Caption: Cancel

Double click the form and add the following:


That's all for the client side. Now on to the server.

Open frmServer and add a new timer to it.
Name: QuestMapNotice
Enabled: False
Interval: 5000

Double click on it and add the following to its sub routine:


Open modGameLogic and in the PlayerWarp sub find:


Under it, add:


Now find:


And under it add:


In Sub JoinGame, find:


and under it add:



*** Note: in my game we have a bug reporting tool. Every game should have one! :p

Now, open mogGeneral, find:


And after it add:



Open modConstants, and add the following:


Find:


Under it add:


in modGlobals, add:


Now, make a new module and name it modQuest

In that module add all of this:



Okay now that thats all done. Let's make ourselves a quest!

We're going to use my example from the last tutorial. Janelle wants you to go find out if the forest is muddy :o

Okay, so let's make this quest one. Let's start by programming the quest into the sub we just added.



Okay, parts of the code are commented allready but I'll break this all down anyways.

First of all let's examine this block:


Line for line, here it is:

Case 1 - This checks to see what quest is associated with the tile we stepped on. In this case, it's quest #1.
If GetFlagHeight(index, 1) = 0 Then - This gets the height of flag 1, which is our quest flag, because we are doing quest one. Smart huh? This says if it is at a height of 0, to execute the rest of the statement.
Call PlayerMsg(index, "Janelle Says: 'Hi, could you do this quest for me? I need you to go to the forest and see if it is muddy.'", 10) - this is a cheap way of getting an NPC to talk lol. Worked for me, better ways to do it.
Call RaiseFlag(index, 1, 1) - This raises flag 1 to a height of 1 so that this event can't be repeated.
Call SetQuestMap(index, 3, 1) - This turns the map into a quest map. In this case, we want map 3 to be the forest, so we set it up this way so we can retrieve that info later. Note that this is saved into an INI file which is specific to the player. Long explanantion short, it makes sure other players cant interfere.
End if - Duh :p

Okay now we've set the map, it's time to move on to the next part. What if someone hasn't vissted the forest yet, but returns to Janelle. She can't give the quest again because we flagged it, but we don't want a blank response either. So let's throw this is for amusement.



Pretty sure that's easy to understand.

Now, at this point we're going to program the events for when the user warps to the quest map.

In your QuestMapData sub, we want to ads this:



Okay, I wont go into enormous detail here, you should start to get the hang of the flag commands.

This checks to see if we are on the quest map, if we are, we make sure the flag height is 1, because if not then we haven' started the quest yet.

Then we are going to use the raise flag command to raise flag 1, by 1 more, so now it = 2.

Now, we go back into the quest sub and finish off the quest.



What this does is tell the game we went to the forest and we found out it wasn't that muddy. But our inventory is full. So she tells us to come back. We hit the bank and drop some stuff, run back to janelle and she rewards us with 100 gold coins!

**Note: I know it's commented but I'll say it anyways. The GiveItem(index, 1, 100) command is programmed in relation to my game, where item 1 is gold. You can choose whatever you want as your reward for the quest, so long as you know the item number.

Now, we raise the flag to 3 so the quest can never be repeated again, unless the admin deletes the flag files. After that we set the Questmap back to 0 so that it can later be deleted from the INI file. Makes it a bit smaller.

And that's it. Now all you need to do is start up the game, and go to the map editor. Choose attributes, click Quest Tile, and select the quest, then select a tile you wish to start it on.

If anyone has any issues pleasse tell me. I found minor bugs when doing the tutorial and fixed them without testing .

Amagad what a great work from you =) I will be adding this soon

Don't add it so soon :p, I just tested it this morning and it gave me an error when trying to create the folders. I'll fix it and post back after work.

EDIT: Minor Error, the LCase and Ucas eget me every time lol. Fixed it above.

Would there be any chance of making a proper editor for this instead of hard-coding it? I'm creating a closed source engine so it would be great to have that ability.

Would not be hard at all.

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Sorry haven't been around for a bit. William is right. All the subs are there on the server side, which should make it exceptionally easy to create an editor.

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does this work?

Try it and find out.

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Yes Boo, it does work. Not very well though I have to admit. I threw this together when I first started with Mirage and it could probably be done a whole lot better, actually I know it can lol. Go ahead and implement it if you wish, but it's verybasic and probably not the most sufficient way of doing this.

BTW: 200th post DING DING

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ya my friend just said he'll program me 1 thats better xD.

THat's probably a good idea

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