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a few twittle errors
2001-03-17, 12:47 PM #1
okay i got two cogs. and since i am not the best cog writer they have some errors. the first one a lot of people have been having problems with. It is supposed to make an enemy be friendly. That cog doesn't print anything so it screws up near the begining.

Code: 
# Han5678 Cog Script
#
# FORCE_CONVERT.COG
#  Bin 116
#
# This script converts an enemy into a friendly.
#
# [Han5678]
#
# (C) 2001 Han5678 All Rights Reserved


symbols

thing        player                             local                         
thing        victim                             local                         
ai           friend=frd.ai                      local                         
flex         cost=100.0                         local                         
flex         mana                               local                         
                                                         
message      startup                                                        
message      activated                                                          
message      pulse                                                            

end                                                                           

# ========================================================================================
code
startup:
   player = GetLocalPlayerThing();

   Return;
# ........................................................................................
pulse:
     
      victim = FirstThingInView(player, 20 + 15 * rank, 2 + rank, 0x404);
      while(victim != -1)
 
	if(victim != -1)
      {
         jkSetTargetColors(6, 7, 8);
         jkSetTarget(victim);
      }
      else
      {
	AiSetClass(victim,friend);
	Print("It tastes good");
}
   Return;
# ........................................................................................
activated:

   if(IsInvActivated(player, 116)) Return;

   mana = GetInv(player, 14);
   if(mana >= cost)
   {
      SetInvActivated(player, 116, 1);
      if(GetInv(player, 64) != 1) ChangeInv(player, 14, -cost);
      rank = GetInv(player, 116);
      Print("I like pizza");
}

   Return;

end


here is my other cog. It is supposed to change your 3do every time u use it. This does absolutely nothing. I was pretty sure i had this one set up right. I think it might be going through the list though, since i have it end on ky.3do as well as start but i doubt it.

Code: 
# Han5678 Cog Script
#
# ITEM_MODEL.COG
#
# [Han5678]
#
# (C) 2001 Han5678 All Rights Reserved

symbols

thing        player                             local                         
model        model1=ky.3do                      local                         
model        model2=kyH4.3do                    local                         
model        model3=kyA10.3do                   local                         
model        model4=kyA12.3do                   local                         
model        model5=kyA16.3do                   local                         

message      activated                                                        
end                                                                           
# ========================================================================================

code

activted:

       player = GetSenderRef();
	if(GetThingModel(player) == model1)
   	{
		SetThingModel(player, model2);
	}
	else
   	if(GetThingModel(player) == model2)
   	{
		SetThingModel(player, model3);
	}
	else
   	if(GetThingModel(player) == model3)
   	{
		SetThingModel(player, model4);
	}
	else
   	if(GetThingModel(player) == model4)
   	{
		SetThingModel(player, model5);
	}
       else
   	if(GetThingModel(player) == model5)
   	{
		SetThingModel(player, model1);
	}

       return;
end


i hope someone can help me. I know it has nothing to do with my hotkeys. It has to be my horrible cogging.
roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and I am too!
2001-03-17, 2:56 PM #2
I didn't look all the way through, but in the first cog you have the statement:

while(victim != -1)

and then nothing afterwards

then you move on to if(victim != -1)

I think you are missing a bracket.

That second if statement is superflous if you contain the entire clause within the first while statement.
2001-03-17, 2:57 PM #3
On the second one, your else clauses aren't contained in brackets. Thats why it isn't working.

[edit]You could fix this easily by adding a return statement within the individual ifs. That way you don't have to deal with nesting. For example:

if(GetThingModel(player) == model1)
{
SetThingModel(player,model2);
return;
}
if(GetThingModel(player) == model2)
{
SetThingModel(player,model3);
return;
}

The return will stop the flow of code. I think. [/edit]

[This message has been edited by ApoK_DragonPhinn (edited March 17, 2001).]
2001-03-18, 7:01 AM #4
okay i see what u mean about the superflous. I have no idea why i stuck that in there i must have been asleep. Well thanks i probably could have figured out the first, with some time. The second though i thought i had it perfect. This helps alot, and hopefully will speed things up.
roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and I am too!
2001-03-19, 4:07 AM #5
In cog you don't have to nest the whole thing for single lines or if you want to nest the next whole thing.

ie : This is fine.

if(this == that) doThat;
else
if(that == next) doAnother;
else
.
.
.

So in the first cog, "while" is nesting the whole pulse message after "victim = ..." till "Return", if that is your intention.

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2001-03-19, 12:43 PM #6
Hey apoks way will still work won't it?
roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and I am too!
2001-03-19, 1:55 PM #7
To make an enemy be friendly, you just change values in the AI file, no?
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2001-03-19, 2:14 PM #8
Yes i know how to do that but i am going to make this a force power. Like a new form of persausion. So when u use it your enemies help u and not shoot u.
roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and I am too!

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