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Hello. I've got two things that i've been having trouble with for a while now so i thought i'd post them both in the same thread.

Flags: I'm interested in being able to check if several flags has been set in story, right now i can only check for one by using GlobalEventSet("flag"), for example. In dialog it's possible to do by using several conditions but i haven't found any good functions in story.

Variables: Is it possible to make global variables that remain in the game that i can change up and down over time? Like having a variable that tracks how well liked the player is by a certain faction.

I believe you were using the standalone template yes? If so this will be easy.



In MAIN and in the template there is this awesome little script called Greevers_Little_helpers. It has tons of useful script and if you don't have it I highly recommend getting it.

One of the more useful and really simple scripts it has is "GLOBAL EVENT MEMORY"


The above stores all global events as a database.
If you already have this in your mod you can use it right away like this:



That's one of my quest close conditional statements. It checks for the global event GaveFish and then for the DB_GlobalEvent for the rest. The DB_GlobalEvent("YOUREVENT") is what the global event memory generates everytime you set a global event. It's extremely useful.



This sounds like another issue for databases. I'm not too proficient at this at the moment but here are the more relevant threads on the subject:

http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthr...ords=database&Search=true#Post549547
http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthr...character.txt&Search=true#Post556556

I use sort of an inefficient work around for this issue, but it's simple and it works. You just need to be able to keep track of it.

Use either CHARACTER_Player1 or - to be more safe - put in a dummy character and name it something like Variables, make it global.

Then I use CharacterSetVarInteger(CHARACTER, "Variable Name", VALUE).

These variables are unlimited, permanent, and can be checked at later times with "IF CharacterGetVarInteger", unlike global events which only fire one time and then are no longer able to trigger code.

Excellent, the flag thing worked well. Going to test using CharacterSetVarInteger later, thanks guys.

Is it possible to add a number to an already existing variable or is it only possible to set it to a set value? Like in normal code you might write Y += 1 to add 1 to the already existing value of Y.

In an efficient way, no. Not that I've found. Using conditionals as work arounds? Sure.

IF
CharacterGetVarInteger(_Player, "Number", 1)
THEN
CharacterSetVarInteger(_Player, "Number", 2);

etc.

Maybe someone else can shed some light on math operations in osiris.

I see, well i'll have to simplify some stuff then. thanks.

You can use IntegerSum function.

Here's an example.