Oni Scripting Question.

Shade · 06/27/09 13:06

Hi, I'm just wondering what is all involved with Scripting Oni. Is Scripting Oni and making mods the same thing? And is there a Script Editor that I could use to script the game? I have my own copy of the game and I would like to get into scripting it and making my own mods. Is there any programs or tutorials that could help me out with this problem? Sorry for the noobish question. One more question, If I wanted to spawn a character in the Dreamlab Level, and I wanted to spawn Griffin, Muro and Evil Konoko and adding a song to it. What would I need to do in order to make it happen? Again sorry if this question sounds a little newbie to everyone. I am a beginner at this and I am just seeking for some help. Thanks. BTW, Sorry if this is in the wrong thread.

Iritscen · 06/27/09 19:06

Shade wrote:

Is Scripting Oni and making mods the same thing?

Scripting is one kind of modding. All other modding falls under the heading of "Binary hacking", which is harder, but a lot easier than it used to be with recent advances in our community tools.

And is there a Script Editor that I could use to script the game?

If you're on Windows, you can try this one: http://mods.oni2.net/index.php?q=node/61. There is also a template for Notepad++ out there somewhere that someone can probably post for you.

Personally, I write BSL manually in TextEdit on my Mac and it is not too difficult as long as I keep a browser window open to the wiki docs on BSL.

Is there any programs or tutorials that could help me out with this problem?

You can learn from example, by reading Oni's scripts and experimenting with them, and you can learn from the OniGalore wiki (see the link in the header bar to the forum?), which has a pretty good section on scripting.

One more question, If I wanted to spawn a character in the Dreamlab Level, and I wanted to spawn Griffin, Muro and Evil Konoko and adding a song to it. What would I need to do in order to make it happen?

The ai2_spawn command is used to create a character in a level, but you can only spawn a character who is in the BINACJBOCharacter file for that level. I will have to let someone else answer this part more fully, as I am rather short on time at the moment.

But don't hesitate to ask newbie questions, that's what we're here for

love_Oni · 06/27/09 20:06

Here are some web pages that may help you:

Scripting Turtorial: It shows the basic way to make a script.

List of all functions that you may need to use in the script.

List of all moves' name.

Adding character to a level Tutorial.

I'm sorry that I can't say anything to help you mod but anyway I would like to help you if I can.

And welcome. Hope you will your time enjoying at the forum.

Last edited by love_Oni (06/27/09 20:06)

Mukade · 06/28/09 12:06

what your speaking of is a fairly simple mod to make, if you know how.

Basically, the only difficult part would be your flags, but once youget past that, all you would have to do is

ai2_spawn evilkonoko
ai2_spawn Griffen
ai2_spawn Muro_generic (im not sure if this is right for muro)
chr_teleport evilkonoko <flag>
chr_teleport Griffen <flag>
chr_teleport Muro_generic <flag>
** now for teams it would depend what u want, if you want all against u it would be
chr_set_team evilkonoko Syndicate
chr_set_team Griffen Syndicate
**i think muro is alreadsy set to syndicate?
**if you want them to fighteach other the simplest way to do this is to put on the cheat reservoirdogs

i know i havent been clear, and i dont know how to putthe music but....
at least udont have to modify BINACJBOCharacter file.. sicne the ones u want are already there

Iritscen · 06/28/09 13:06

Music is controlled with BSL functions sound_music_start, sound_music_volume, and sound_music_stop. For instance, to start playing the mus_asian track, then fade it out over two seconds:

sound_music_start mus_asian 0.8
#presumably some other code is running for a while, then...
sound_music_volume mus_asian 0.0 2.0
sound_music_stop mus_asian

All music track names seem to be listed here: http://wiki.oni2.net/Music/Ingame , and of course the specifics of how the above functions work are documented on the wiki.

Shade · 06/29/09 03:06

Wow nice!, Thanks for the help guys.

Lil · 07/21/09 17:07

i'm gradually getting to grips with script-talk and i've jus read the basics of scripting on the wiki page provided in this thread- i feel inspired to for once get involved in a mod of my own - don't know how successful it will be so thanks

Leus · 07/22/09 11:07

Hey if you have a function fork itself at its end to loop, is there any way you can disable the function with a certain condition so that it no longer executes?

Gumby · 07/22/09 12:07

func forked_func(void) {

if (random_condition eq whatever_number) fork forked_func
}

Leus · 07/22/09 13:07

So... How much of that is filler and how much is actually needed? Lol.

Like, okay, let's say my forked func is called "health," because technically it is in the script I'm writing. So the way I see what you're telling me is this:

func void main(void)
{
*whatever*
fork health
}

func health
{
*whatever*
fork health
}

func health(void)
{
*a certain amount of time passes*
}

Something like that?

Phydur · 07/22/09 13:07

no, thats not quite right.

func void main(void)
{
*whatever*
fork health
}

func health(void)
{
*whatever*
if (*condition* eq *whatever_number*) fork health
}

the key is the if condition.
if the condition is met, it will fork the function and repeat it.
if the condition is not met. it will skip the fork and just end.

alternately you can make it not equal, and then when it dosent equal that number it will loop and if it dose equal that number it will just end.
dose that help?

Last edited by Phydur (07/22/09 13:07)

Leus · 07/22/09 14:07

Ah yeah. So how do you say not equal or if not or whatever?

Like... Okay, here's what it is right now.

func health(void)
{
chr_wait_health 0 199
chr_set_health 0 200
sleep 60
fork health
}

Let's say I wanted to make it loop until Muro was spawned. (I do... Lol, I'm not very imaginative apparently.) It'd be like... Actually, I have no idea. Is that a legitimate condition? If not I could probably get creative and make something else arbitrary happen as a condition.

Iritscen · 07/22/09 15:07

I guess my question would be, What causes Muro to spawn? If you have code to do that somewhere else, then set a variable to mark it when it happens. You would declare the variable at the very top of the BSL, e.g. "var bool muro_spawned = 0;", then put the line "muro_spawned = 1" where he gets spawned in the script.

You would then say:

if (muro_spawned eq 0)
   fork health

at the end of the self-forking function to stop forking when muro_spawned is no longer zero. "ne" = "not equal to" and "eq" = "equal to".

Gumby · 07/22/09 16:07

Always use ints. Bools are pure evil.

Leus · 07/22/09 19:07

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Leus · 07/22/09 20:07

Okay, I tried a bunch of different things and it always spawns me at the beginning of the level (which is not what's supposed to happen) and gives some weird error message; right now it's

Func "(null)", File "Management.bsl", Line 1: Illegal token, got "func" expected ";"
Func "main", File "(called from engine)", Line 0: Semantic error, function "main" does not exist

That comes from me having var int Muro_Spawned = 0 right at the top before func void main(void). The main function forks manage and health, and in manage I have a line that says Muro_Spawned = 1 after a certain point. Finally, health looks like this now:

func health(void)
{
chr_wait_health 0 199
chr_set_health 0 200
sleep 60
if (Muro_Spawned eq 0)
fork health
}

Sup? Lol. Also I tried making the top line var bool Muro_Spawned = 0 just in case, but it still didn't work.

Iritscen · 07/22/09 21:07

You need to end lines with semicolons when they're outside of a function, like your muro_spawned declaration is. Don't ask me why, but weak syntax isn't allowed in the global space.

Leus · 07/23/09 09:07

Aahh, thanks. It seems to be working.

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