Mirage Source

This wasn't here, or on the old forums, Spoon sent it to me, so I posted it. ^^

Visual Inventory Tutorial
Created By: God Sent Death (Sean)

This Code Might Have Slight Bugs In It, But It Shouldnt Be Too Hard To
Figure Out How To Fix Them.

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Index
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I. Displaying The Inventory Pictures
II. Click Any PicInv() To Display The Info (Relying On The Pics Instead)
III. Removing Image When Item Dropped
IV. Bringing Back To Item One
V. Use Item Potion Fix And Updating Visual Inventory
VI. (OPTIONAL)Double Click Item To Use It
VII. Fin
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:::All In frmMirage:::
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make a timer called "VisInvTimer"
interval = 50
enabled = false
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make 24 picture boxes (make as many as your max inventory) all control
arrays(call them picInv)
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make another picture box called picItems
AutoRedraw = true
AutoResize = true
Scale Mode = pixel
Visible = false
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make 4 picture box (these will be your visual equiped items(Make as many as
you want if you got more item equipment)
name them:
ArmorImage
WeaponImage
HelmetImage
ShieldImage
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Make a picture box called picInv2 (This will be the selected item picture)
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make a label called IName (this will be the item name)
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:::THIS CODE IS ALL CLIENT SIDE:::
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I. Displaying The Inventory Pictures
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in the modGameLogic find:

at the very bottom of that put (above end sub though)



double click the timer in frmMirage (the one u made) add the following:




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II. Click Any PicInv() To Display The Info (Relying On The Pics Instead)
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Keep your original inventory list box, just make the visble = false

double click on any picInv(), in there add:




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III. Removing Image When Item Dropped
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in frmMirage double click lblDropItem
in there you will see at the bottom:



right under that add:




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IV. Bringing Back To Item One
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In frmMirage source add the following code at the very bottom:



in the drop item code at the bottom add:



now in the picInventory code at the bottom add (Or whatever you have to click on to open your inventory):




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V. Use Item Potion Fix And Updating Visual Inventory
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Replace all the Use Item code for:




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VI. (OPTIONAL CODE)
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//DOUBLE CLICK TO USE ITEM\\



//VISUAL EQUIPMENT\\

COMING SOON!

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VII. Fin
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It works there are no bugs haha finally posted here I though it was going to be keep inside the old forums

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It wasn't on the old forums either. Hence, the reason I said it wasn't, so I posted it here. ^^

It was in the 25-tutorials in one thing on the old forums , it´s probably hard to find for new users so thanks for posting again.

Hey, I know its an old post but when I added this part of your tutorial:
All the text went red.

EDIT: Same with all this:


EDIT2: And all of this:



EDIT3: Guess this doesn't work either.


It's probably me just being new to VB6 but if anyone could tell me what im doing wrong that would be great.

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-RyanBlandin-

That's because, thanks to the word wrap feature, it wrapped parts of it, just move the parts after the ,'s back to the next line, and it should fix it.

Oooh. Thanks alot.

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EDIT: NVM Fixed it myself.

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Trace it, if it says that it's not defined, then apparently, it's not defined. Do a search for Dim InvNum as or something along those lines. It's not hard.

Yeah I did that for InvNum, but for my current problem it's goign to take alot longer. It's the variable "E" lol. Thanks for the help, I can probably fix this one on my own.

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Yeah I allready fixed it by adding that. Thanks though.

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Hey I know this is awhile back but I thought I would post something, for there are any who haven't figured this out. Ok after you added all of that code, if you notice the images don't load until you click on a picInv box, there's a way to fix this, and here's how I did it. find It might be picInventory for some people, but anyway. double click the lbl or picInventory (or just run through and find the code) and do this and everytime you click the button to bring up your inventory it will load your inventory so that you don't have blank cubes for a few minutes. Also on top of all this I found some problems, 1. The image never changes, 2. the description never changes.

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Um, it all works perfectly for me. And as far as I know, it should already have that code in there. It should already update it.

I'm going to make this tut look pretty here soon, so if it's not there, I will add it in, since I have a few other things to add in.

This is a pretty bad way to go around it...

It's icky... all those picture boxes going everywhere... meh.

T'is much better to just blt directly to picScreen. You can even mask them to get some cool effects.

-Kite-

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Well, this is the only method around, and works just fine.

If you want to make a tut for that method and post it, then go ahead.

Ok. I will

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Lol. Good luck with it, though, won't it lag it a bit more? As that's even more to blit?

And BitBlting into 50 boxes isn't going to lag?
As long as you know what you are doing it's easy. It won't lag too much, unless they have really crap pc's... but... meh =)

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I like this method better, it looks neater. Imo.

I can think of neater stuff than 50 indexed picture boxes =)

-Kite-

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You do know that I mean it looks nice and neat, right? Not that it's better. Lol.

Personally I think it looks trashy, but we obviously have different views, so I will leave you to your picture boxes =)

-Kite-

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Lol, several major mmo's have it LOOKING like this. So, I think it's good.

If you are going to use a picture box, then I'd have to agree with Kite on the single picture box, since then you can render a GUI around it.

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