Drop Everything and Pick it Back up.

Hi Everyone - 

Ok everyone, I really think that this should be the last thing I need help on before asking Adam to put it up...

But it's a big one!

So, no matter what he's holding when he enters the Dream Sequence, I need Dizzy to start with an empty Inventory in the dream...when he wakes up back in the real world, he needs to be holding what he had when he fell asleep. 

I'd like to use InventoryAdd and InventoryClear so that it's invisable to the player...but is there anyway to hold a record of what was dropped using InventoryClear so that I can automatically InventoryAdd them back in??

Does that make sense?

Check out some earlier posts on this thread about character switching as part of the coding drops the items carried by one character when switching and picking up the items carried by the new character.. so one way would be to have asleep Dizzy as a different character to awake dizzy.

Of course there could well be an easier method so wait to see if anybody clever responds and do my suggestion as a last restort

Not knowing the codes obviously, like Grandad said character switching might provide some form of help.

The best examples like @colin 's Summer Blast Dizzy or @noggin-the-nog 's Don't Panic Dizzy.

I've given this a go. Try using these functions when entering and exiting the dream. I'm assuming Dizzy can carry 3 items and you'll need to add some #def 's for the game variables. Otherwise they're good to go.

I haven't tested them out btw so apologies if there's a mistake in there. 

func InventoryBackUp()
{
	for(i=0;i<3;i++)
	{
		idx = InventoryGet(i);
		if(idx!=-1)
		{
			id = ObjGet(idx,O_ID);
			if(i==0) GameSet(G_STORE0,id);
			if(i==1) GameSet(G_STORE1,id);
			if(i==2) GameSet(G_STORE2,id);
		}
	}
	InventoryClear();
}

func InventoryRestore()
{
	InventoryClear();
	id0 = GameGet(G_STORE0);
	idx = ObjFind(id0);
	InventoryAdd(idx);

	id1 = GameGet(G_STORE1);
	idx = ObjFind(id1);
	InventoryAdd(idx);

	id2 = GameGet(G_STORE2);
	idx = ObjFind(id2);
	InventoryAdd(idx);
}

@noggin-the-nog @khaosadz @grandad

Thanks again - great!!

I must have been keyboard bashing at literally the same time as you posted these - this is what I came up with...

func UpdateRoom_7_1()
{
idx = ObjFind(3423466);
if (ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS)==3) \\picks up items with status of 9 when you wake up
{
idx = ObjFind(34234662);
pocket = ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS); \\use this status to update which object you're checking the status of
pocket +=1;
idx = ObjFind(34234662);
ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,pocket);

idx = ObjFind(pocket);
if (ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS)==9) \\pick up objects with a status of 9
{

InventoryAdd(idx);
}


idx = ObjFind(34234662);
if (ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS)==1106) \\stop checking when you get to the last object

{
idx = ObjFind(3423466);
ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,2); \\turn off the pick-up loop
}
}

idx = ObjFind(3423466);
if (ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS)==1) \\set objects in your inventory to status 9 when you fall to sleep
{
idx = ObjFind(34234662); \\status of this object is 1048 - first item that might still be available at this point in the game
pocket = ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS); 
pocket +=1;

idx = ObjFind(34234662);
ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,pocket);
if (ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS) !=1106) \\keep setting inventory objects to 9 until you get to the last possible item
{
idx = ObjFind(pocket);
inpocket = InventoryFind(idx);
if (inpocket !=-1)
{
idx = ObjFind(pocket);
ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,9);
}
}

idx = ObjFind(34234662);
if (ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS) ==1106)
{
idx = ObjFind(3423466);
ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,2); \\stop the loop
}
}
}

Then I actually clear the inventory in the next step.

Once again, it's not pretty - and to be honest it causes a slight delay (which is fine when he's going to sleep..I had a delay baked in there anyway..but has required a little bit of 'funny' dialogue when he wakes up to accound for it :D).Also...only a tiny minor thing, but the items don't go back in in the order you dropped them...but, I'm not going to lose sleep over that.

So....it's really close to done now!!

(And next time I'll deffo either swap the character out or do a neat inventory back-up :tup: )