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Little help with my combat system (Harlowe)
So, i'm trying to make a fight system for my story/game that's proving to be a little too deep for me to handle. I want to have body parts being damaged until one dies instead of HP bars; for that, i'm using a datamap containing the anatomy of the enemy (besides the one for the player, of course), and i need to refer to its contents through variables so i can use the same damage calculation passage for every enemy - at least that! Cause i'm already in need of a single passage for the construction of every specific enemy. That's a different issue, however.
I made this little test that illustrates my problem:
(set: $anatomy to (datamap: "skull", 0, "lEye", 0, "rEye", 0))
(set: $area to "skull")
(set: $area of $anatomy to 1)
(if: "skull" of $anatomy is 1)[It works!](else:)[Weird...]
(set: $bArmor to (datamap: "skull", 2, "lEye", 0, "rEye", 0))
(set: $block to 0)
(set: $block to it + $area of $bArmor)
$block
The first code is the problem itself. The second one works (i get a 2 for $block).
In the first one, i need to refer to the element "skull" of the datamap "$anatomy" but i can't say "skull" directly, because it could be the tail of a rat and some enemies won't have a tail; since in the actual project, the datamap associated with $anatomy is determined along with the enemy engaged, long before this passage.
Oddly enough, this line from the second code - which check for body parts that have armor and add that armor to $block - works perfectly:
(set: $block to it + $area of $bArmor)
That's almost the same thing i need to do here:
(set: $area of $anatomy to 1)
And can't, because it returns an error along with my "weird" message (indicating that he understood the "if" part of the first code).
I feel like it's only a syntax issue but can't figure which!
Thank you so much (:
I made this little test that illustrates my problem:
(set: $anatomy to (datamap: "skull", 0, "lEye", 0, "rEye", 0))
(set: $area to "skull")
(set: $area of $anatomy to 1)
(if: "skull" of $anatomy is 1)[It works!](else:)[Weird...]
(set: $bArmor to (datamap: "skull", 2, "lEye", 0, "rEye", 0))
(set: $block to 0)
(set: $block to it + $area of $bArmor)
$block
The first code is the problem itself. The second one works (i get a 2 for $block).
In the first one, i need to refer to the element "skull" of the datamap "$anatomy" but i can't say "skull" directly, because it could be the tail of a rat and some enemies won't have a tail; since in the actual project, the datamap associated with $anatomy is determined along with the enemy engaged, long before this passage.
Oddly enough, this line from the second code - which check for body parts that have armor and add that armor to $block - works perfectly:
(set: $block to it + $area of $bArmor)
That's almost the same thing i need to do here:
(set: $area of $anatomy to 1)
And can't, because it returns an error along with my "weird" message (indicating that he understood the "if" part of the first code).
I feel like it's only a syntax issue but can't figure which!
Thank you so much (:
Comments
If you read the Array data section of the Harlowe manual you will see the $array's ($pos - 3) example showing that you can use variables to access the elements of an array, this technique also works with datamaps.