Objects contaning items eg Herbs

[Trego]

I want to create a container (like a money box) that can hold herbs: flowers, mushrooms, etc.

The current items that can be contained are:
Tiny, Arrows, Keys, Coins, Small, Darts, Scrolls, Gems, Medium, Rocks, Flasks, Valuables, Large, Stars, Huge, and Daggers.

I could clone one of those items as a herd type, eg clone stars to have herb images (minus the attack method), but I don't want people to be able to put stars into the container if they happen to find stars.

Any ideas?

And what is a 'valuable' defined as, neck items, rings, and crowns?

[Gambit37]

This is where a little knowledge of RTC internals would help, though you can normally work it out from the objects menu.

Most items are categorised internally by their object prefix: MONSTER_, FLOORITEM_, etc. However, there's nothing in the Objects menu that lists VALUABLES_, so there must also be another internal flag for such items. I'm guessing Keys are identified as such.

Do you only want to limit the items to be herbs? I think the best way would be to allow only "Tiny" items. Only Rings, Gems, Coins & Keys are tiny as far as I'm aware and if a player wants to put these in their herb pouch I think that's OK

[Trego]

Valuables = coins and gems; the money box in DMII contains valuables.

I would prefer only Herb type things, but a key chain does sounds like a good idea too.

[Gambit37]

Is there a STORED action? Can we detect when an item is stored in a container? If so, you could run an action every time something is placed in your herb pouch -- simply check if it's a herb and if not, return it to the player's hands.

I'm speaking conceptually, I don't know if this is possible.

[Trego]

I don't think there is a store/d action, but I could (but won't) have an attack method added to the herds that activate a counter and remove the object (only if the box is on the/a character) from the hand, on viewing the box the contents will be recorded as info, not images, using a substitution string showing the numbers on the counters.

[Sophia]

If you clone a dart, and set its name to "THROWING STAR" and image and attack methods to those of a throwing star, then clone all your herbs from the real throwing star, your "star" method works fine because what you're using as a throwing star is a dart to the game engine.

This little kludge will only work a limited number of times, mind you, because RTC lacks any generic way to specify what you can put into a container.

[b1llygo4t]

i was disappointed to see you cant create your own exception. same thing with the shoot command. oddly the ven and firebombs arent considered as flasks by containers, but are labeled as flasks.

i cant find a way for the engine to detect things in a container, or put things in one

key rings rock