Help: More than 0-6 Skills

[Drakkhan]

I'm interested in adding more skills to my server (TFS 0.2.14 (Mystic Spirit)).

I realize it may be extremely difficult to add the skills, and then over the top to get them to display in the client. I would LIKE to do both, but I would be happy with adding the skills and having them function, while being forced to view the skill level via some .lua code...

Any ideas?

Regards,

Drakkhan

 

[Summ]

Just use a storage value, create a formula for the skill level and add a talkaction to check it.
What do you want to use it for?

 

[Drakkhan]

The plan is to develop a carpentry, smithing, and farming system that are based off of additional skills.. if the addition of new "skills" is a fairly painless process.. I plan to branch out and add woodcutting, glass blowing, mining, and alchemy as well as subskills for the magic system.



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Also, where exactly do I add this storage value? Let's reduce my last post to simply "I want to create a carpentry skill" How do I create a storage value for each character that stores the player's current carpentry skill?

EDIT: and what would be a example of modifying that player's value in a .lua script?

 

[Summ]

Let's say you get 5 skill tries for a successful use of a hammer and 1 skill try for others.

local function getCarpetTriesForLevel(lv)
    local lv = lv - 1
    return math.floor(20 * lv + 0.8 * lv ^ 3)     -- use your formula here
end

local function getCarpetSkill(tries)
    local tmp = 0
    repeat
        tmp = tmp + 1
    until tries >= getCarpetTriesForLevel(tmp) and not(tries >= getCarpetTriesForLevel(tmp + 1))
    return tmp
end

local carpentryStorage = 39393

-- in function onUse()
local rand = math.random(100)
local currentSkillTries = math.max(getPlayerStorageValue(cid, carpentryStorage), 0)
local newSkillTries = currentSkillTries
local currentSkillLevel = getCarpetSkill(currentSkillTries)
if rand >= 60 then -- successful 
    -- doPlayerSendCancel(cid, "Success")    
    newSkillTries = newSkillTries + 5
else                    -- other
    -- doPlayerSendCancel(cid, "You failed")    
    newSkillTries = newSkillTries + 1
end
setPlayerStorageValue(cid, carpentryStorage, newSkillTries)

local newLevel = getCarpetSkill(newSkillTries)
if newLevel > currentSkillLevel then
    doPlayerSendCancel(cid, string.format("You advanced in carpeting. Your skill level is %d.", newLevel))
    -- other stuff on skill advance.
end

Might not be the best way but it works, I would build general functions like getCustomSkillTries, addCustomSkillTries, getCustomSkillLevel etc. but this should work too.

 

[Drakkhan]

@Summ this is excellent! I'm new to OT Programming, somewhat, but, luckily, I'm not new to programming in general.. I'm soaking up your coding formats and style like a sponge, here! .

So I'm very capable of recording extra stored skill values, now, my next question is:

How do I go about creating a .lua file for a general getCustomSkillTries() function, and then calling that function in other .lua scripts? Is this possible?

Thanks again!

 

[Summ]

In 0.2.14 you should find a global.lua in your data directory, you can place functions in there which will be accessible by all scripts.

 

[Drakkhan]

Excellent. I actually just found this global.lua... thank you for all your help!