Basically, I've been editing SBX 2.0 for personal uses in my office. Apologies and all, but I need to get back in touch with programming and stuff.

Anyway, what I've been trying to do with force_heal.cog is have it so that a do{}while() loop runs and keeps healing the player a little bit while the mana is greater than the cost.

The loop looks something like this:
do
{
HEALING STUFF
}
while(mana > cost);

A problem I always had in class was certain syntaxes would be incorrect, I'd miss a semi-colon or something. Is there ANYTHING you can see that is wrong with this:

if(GetThingHealth(player) < 100)
{
mana = GetInv(player, 14);
{
if(GetInv(player, 65) != 1)-->
ChangeInv(player, 14, -cost);
SetInvActivated(player, 25, 1);
PlayMode(player, 24);
soundChannel = PlaySoundThing(healingSound, player, 1.0, -1, -1, 0x80);
rank = GetInv(player, 25);
position = VectorAdd(GetThingPos(player), '0.0 0.0 0.01');
sphere = CreateThingAtPosNR(sphere_tpl, GetThingSector(player), position, '0.0 0.0 0.0');
AttachThingToThingEx(sphere, player, 0x8);
Sleep(0.6);
SetParticleGrowthSpeed(sphere, -3.0)
do
{
if(GetThingHealth(player) > 0)
{
HealThing(player, 1 * rank);
//jkPrintUNIString(player, 303);
}
Sleep(0.40);
DestroyThing(sphere);
mana=mana-cost;
}
while(mana > cost);

}

I know, no word wrap and stuff, but I hope you get the gist.

Seth

I dont see a reason to do it like that. The simplest way would be to run a high pulse, checking evry time to see if there is enough mana, and if so, healing the player.

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you see, my knowledge of programming is limited to beginning c++, like HS level, so a lot of this stuff is not known to me, how do I make a high pulse like that, give me an example.

Seth

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BLEAH

AIM:SethTAlbright

see, the problem is that the code I submitted in the above message doesn't work. I get this message:

=expected, { found
Variable, function, or keyword expected, but ; found
unexpected }

[edit]Scratch what I said about the do..while loop. It does work.

2) What's with the "-->"? Cog doesn't use that.

You should put your code in code tags so it's readable.

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Incognito

[This message has been edited by SaberMaster (edited December 13, 2001).]

I got the Do While to work, to a point. It won't take mana away other than the initial casting cost, so in actuality, it replenishes all your health gradually for like 20 mana. ARGH.


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BLEAH

AIM:SethTAlbright

To set up a pulse:

Add 'Message Pulse' to your symbols section.

Add 'Setpulse(0.1);' to start the pulse.

'Pulse:' starts the pulse code. Add your conditional statements and heal code here.


'Setpulse(0);' will stop the pulse.

 

Essentially, that will create a re-uccuring message, that will trigger evry 0.1 seconds.

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Success is the inverse relationship between effort, gain, and loss.

okay, Now I see how that works, and that might be better than the Do While, but I need a way to take mana away each time it does it, because right now it runs, but only takes mana away once.

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BLEAH

AIM:SethTAlbright

In the pulse put ChangeInv(player, 14, #); where # is like -5.

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-Hell Raiser
Cogging type person that does, umm, stuff.
"Free, your, mind."

Thank you very much!

Okay, that worked...partly. I can't seem to get the SetPulse to work, so I returned to my good ol' DoWhile. Here is what it looks like, and then I'll tell you the problem:

do
{

if((GetThingHealth(player) > 0) && (mana > cost))
{
HealThing(player, 1 * rank);
ChangeInv(player, 14, -25);
//jkPrintUNIString(player, 303);
}
Sleep(1.0);

}
while((mana > 0) || (GetThingHealth(player)!=100));


The problem is, yeah, it takes the mana, and yeah, it refills until health is full, but it doesn't STOP. Health can be at 100, and it will still be active. Mana can be at 0, and whatever mana gets recharged gets taken away. ARGH!



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BLEAH

AIM:SethTAlbright

Change:

while((mana > 0) || (GetThingHealth(player)!=100));

to

while((mana > 0) && (GetThingHealth(player)!=100));

You need to use && to make it work because, well, if your health is 100, it would still run cuz mana > 0. Also the other way around. If mana was 0, but your health was not 100, it would still run.

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-Hell Raiser
Cogging type person that does, umm, stuff.
"Free, your, mind."

[This message has been edited by Hell Raiser (edited December 12, 2001).]

Okay, new problem, well not quite.
The power never de-activates. It keeps running and running, sapping out force power and not refilling life. How would I work the SetPulse, since my DoWhile seems to be doing absolutely nothing. Here's the code though, if you can see anything wrong with it.

do
{

if((GetThingHealth(player) > 0) && (mana > cost))
{
HealThing(player, 1 * rank);
ChangeInv(player, 14, -25);
//jkPrintUNIString(player, 303);
}
Sleep(1.0);

}
while((mana > 0 && mana != 0) && (health != 100));
call stop_power;
return;
Those &&'s at the bottom used to be ||'s, but it didn't change anything.

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BLEAH

AIM:SethTAlbright

I'm not a C++ expert, but I do see this problem, which proably isn't you're current problem:

where your do loop starts, put SetPulse(1); then put message pulse in the symbols section, and cut'n'paste this:



And like ZZTer said, in the 1 * rank, the 1 * is useless, unless yo change the 1. Because 1 * rank is rank.


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-Hell Raiser
Cogging type person that does, umm, stuff.
"Free, your, mind."

Okay, the cog is done and it works. If anyone wants it FOR ANYTHING just ask. I ended up using a while instead of a doWhile