MartinF
Squire
I'm working on a code for patrols.
Basically right now I'm making a script that chooses a random patrol location within a certain radius of the home base. So checking for faction, etc. Everything works fine.
Except.. when using ((store_distance_to_party_from_party, ":distance", ":temp_object", ":cur_home_base"), it always returns a 0
Now I know the store distance thing works, because I use it to keep my patrols from wandering too far away from the base, for assigning them certain targets within a radius of the base, etc.
For some reason though, when both parties are a town, village or castle, it doesn't seem to want to work.
The piece of the script that checks it is this (variables are defined earlier):
I've tried echoing all the different variables and the base number is set correctly. So I get 'target 178 found, base is 52, distance is 0' when I print it all out.
Any thoughts? Maybe different ways of doing this?
I tried using the (party_get_position) for both parties and then using (get_distance_between_positions,) but that command seems to be meant for scenes (header_operations says it returns in cm) and doesn't give the expected result either, it also comes back with 0
[edit] there are scripts in the game that do use the get_distance_between_positions for the world map. However I still can't get it to work in mine.. whatever I do the distance comes back as 0
[edit2] ok now I'm really confused.. I tried running a simple trigger:
(1, [(store_distance_to_party_from_party, ":distance", "p_town_1", "p_town_6"),
(assign, reg18, ":distance"),
(display_message, "@distance from town 1 to town 6 is {reg18}"),
]),
and that comes back with 116
What am I missing here? I've got two party id's, which should be the same as using "p_town_1"...
Basically right now I'm making a script that chooses a random patrol location within a certain radius of the home base. So checking for faction, etc. Everything works fine.
Except.. when using ((store_distance_to_party_from_party, ":distance", ":temp_object", ":cur_home_base"), it always returns a 0
Now I know the store distance thing works, because I use it to keep my patrols from wandering too far away from the base, for assigning them certain targets within a radius of the base, etc.
For some reason though, when both parties are a town, village or castle, it doesn't seem to want to work.
The piece of the script that checks it is this (variables are defined earlier):
Code:
(try_for_range, ":temp_object", centers_begin, centers_end),
(neq, ":temp_object", ":cur_object"),
(store_distance_to_party_from_party, ":distance", ":temp_object", ":cur_home_base"),
(lt, ":distance", 30),
(store_faction_of_party, ":temp_faction", ":temp_object"),
(eq, ":temp_faction", ":cur_faction"), #only patrol own faction locations
(val_add, ":num_objects", 1),
(try_end),I've tried echoing all the different variables and the base number is set correctly. So I get 'target 178 found, base is 52, distance is 0' when I print it all out.
Any thoughts? Maybe different ways of doing this?
I tried using the (party_get_position) for both parties and then using (get_distance_between_positions,) but that command seems to be meant for scenes (header_operations says it returns in cm) and doesn't give the expected result either, it also comes back with 0
[edit] there are scripts in the game that do use the get_distance_between_positions for the world map. However I still can't get it to work in mine.. whatever I do the distance comes back as 0
[edit2] ok now I'm really confused.. I tried running a simple trigger:
(1, [(store_distance_to_party_from_party, ":distance", "p_town_1", "p_town_6"),
(assign, reg18, ":distance"),
(display_message, "@distance from town 1 to town 6 is {reg18}"),
]),
and that comes back with 116
What am I missing here? I've got two party id's, which should be the same as using "p_town_1"...
