character background

dominions · 05-07-2002, 07:15 AM

Here's an idea pinched from the Baldur's Gate series: How about implementing a background button on each character's stat screen. When pressed, this button could activate a 'Background Event', much in the way 'Step Events' have their own events.

Steve McDonald · 05-12-2002, 08:02 PM

You can already do this for NPCs, using either the "talk" event (camp) or "examine" event (view screen), both of which may be renamed something like "Background". It's hard to see how you could have a background event for PCs unless the player defines them at the start. Hope this helps.

CocoaSpud · 05-17-2002, 08:04 AM

The NPC's could have pre-made background text added by the user in the editor. That's not too difficult. It would be a harder to let the player add background text for created characters while playing the game. I'd need to implement a text editor within the game for that.

Maybe it could be done as a separate text file. Character Bobo would then have Bobo.chr, Bobo_icon.pcx, and Bobo_bg.txt. If the text file is present the engine will enable the Background button and display it. Sound reasonable?

05-07-2002, 07:15 AM	#1
dominions Elminster Join Date: March 20, 2001 Location: Hampshire, England Age: 51 Posts: 428	Here's an idea pinched from the Baldur's Gate series: How about implementing a background button on each character's stat screen. When pressed, this button could activate a 'Background Event', much in the way 'Step Events' have their own events. __________________ [img]\"http://www.shalewyn.com/Images/KrynnWhiteDragon1.gif\" alt=\" - \" /><br />\"Hah!\", thought the white dragon. \"A wand of Ice Storm will never harm me!\"<br />He never did figure out that he was in a CRPG...

05-17-2002, 08:04 AM	#3
CocoaSpud Zhentarim Guard Join Date: March 15, 2001 Location: Melbourne, FL, USA Posts: 375	The NPC's could have pre-made background text added by the user in the editor. That's not too difficult. It would be a harder to let the player add background text for created characters while playing the game. I'd need to implement a text editor within the game for that. Maybe it could be done as a separate text file. Character Bobo would then have Bobo.chr, Bobo_icon.pcx, and Bobo_bg.txt. If the text file is present the engine will enable the Background button and display it. Sound reasonable? __________________ CocoaSpud<br />Dungeon Craft Development Team<br /> [url]\"http://uaf.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_blank\">http://uaf.sourceforge.net</a>

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05-12-2002, 08:02 PM	#2
Steve McDonald The Magister Join Date: January 29, 2002 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 130	You can already do this for NPCs, using either the "talk" event (camp) or "examine" event (view screen), both of which may be renamed something like "Background". It's hard to see how you could have a background event for PCs unless the player defines them at the start. Hope this helps.

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