Something simple that would help us out a lot.....

Storm_bringer

well im working on a project (unanaunced as of yet) and while I was thinking of the story line and it's many variants, I came to the rather obvious relization that it would SUCK to write two identical story lines for a male and female pilot, when all of this work can be saved with some simle if/then logic, namely in desc resorces...

for exsample:

blah blah blah <IF xxxx = TRUE><THEN hey, my man whats hapening??><ELSE hey girlfrend what ya been up to lately??><ENDIF> Blah Blah Blah

this simple adition would alow for:

-mision decriptions to reflect your other shoot-off misions ( ie a buddy of yours mentions cojo hunting- of mabie being a bounty hunter)

-Spob desc's to reflect in game changes without having to create new syst and spob recorces (ie only the desk on eath changes after the rebls win, not the whole sys.

anywho, simple logic would save us programers a lot of pain... wouldn't it??

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Masamune

Read the bible more closely, buddy. That exact functionality is already there. Look for {Bxxxx "String if true" "String if false}.

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Arturo

There are also two gender operators specified in the bible as well.

For NCB(test) expressions there is the "G" operator which returns a 1 for male and a 0 for female.

For dësc resources there is the gender string selector {G "male pilot string" "female pilot string"}. Please note that the enclosing {} braces are required.

If you use the "Find" command of whatever application you read the bible with you can locate things like this quite easily.

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mrxak

Just as a note, the time for feature suggestions is long, long, long past. You're lucky this is already in there.

Icetray

(QUOTE)Originally posted by Storm_bringer:
(B)well ..IF xxxx = TRUE><THEN hey, my man whats hapening??><ELSE hey girlfrend what ya been up to lately??><ENDIF>

Whoa those are the exact commands we use on the robot at my school to program it :eek:!

Guess I owe my teacher an apology :redface:

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boot

(quote)Originally posted by Icetray:
**(QUOTE)Originally posted by Storm_bringer:
(B)Whoa those are the exact commands we use on the robot at my school to program it !
Guess I owe my teacher an apology
**(/quote)

Why, what did you make it do?

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HeWhoMustNotBeNamed

There is also another operator for whether or not they have registered Nova, but it's kind of irrelevant in plugins.

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Icetray

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Originally posted by boot:
**Why, what did you make it do?:p

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Well we have two robots (they're just arms) and I had them talking to each other.

But seriously those are the commands for decision making i.e. is this limit switch pushed, is that pushbutton pressed, is there a hand somewere it's not supposed to be and will be crushed mercilessly.

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Azdara

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Originally posted by Icetray:
**Well we have two robots (they're just arms) and I had them talking to each other.;)

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Hah!

Haha! That gets better every time I read it. Nice one man... classic.

Heheheh, I love it!

~A~

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Kame

Eh, "If/Else" statements is actually something I would have liked to have seen implemented in the engine - not in this case. The Gender operator works quite nicely. There have been several instances where I would have found them helpful though. Although, I know you can pretty much achieve the same results using multiple mission resources, still I tend to try and conserve the number of misns I actually use. Just like to keep things clean and simple I guess. Regardless, MB did a fantastic job making Nova as versatile as he did.

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