Halp. Adding new characters to IVAN?

Mar 4, 2009, 3:32 am

#1

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

Hi again.

I have resumed work on AtomicIVAN, and am wanting to add a certain new character to New Attnam.
I always get an error message when trying to run IVAN after putting him in...

I had a look at the greatboard forums for a solution, but couldn't find one. So i got the source stuff just incase.

Help?

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Mar 4, 2009, 11:32 am

#2

Master mine stomper

Joined: Dec 16, 2007
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Yes, adding new creatures wont work with scripting alone. You need to edit the source. Modifying old ones, however, does work.

Mar 4, 2009, 11:53 pm

#3

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

Thing is, I want a totally new character, and replacing an existing char just wont work.
Sorta like the mystery man in LIVAN, he didnt replace anyone.
So how do you do it with editing the source?

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Mar 14, 2009, 9:21 pm

#4

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

Right so NOBODY knows?!

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Mar 14, 2009, 9:59 pm

#5

Mage Prophet

Joined: Dec 3, 2007
Occupation: Chaos Weaver
Location: Standing between all life and death
Posts: 2,898

Well, your best bet is the script course, lower down in this section. Or to ask Z.

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Mar 15, 2009, 1:41 am

#6

Ex-Tyrant of the IVANers

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Unless you can find Lampshade.

"Put more stuff in the... thing where... more stuff goes in."

Mar 17, 2009, 11:03 pm

#7

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

I was kinda hoping he would post...

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Mar 17, 2009, 11:10 pm

#8

The Imperialist

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Location: New Attnam
Interests: bananas
Posts: 2,309

Try the IRC.. I think he's in there pretty often

Apr 20, 2009, 2:12 am

#9

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

Alright you guys asked for it.
I'm going to have to replace Huang Ming Pong for someone else now. I hope you're all happy.
Unless Lampshade lets me shred apart LIVAN

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Apr 20, 2009, 10:21 am

#10

Mage Prophet

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Occupation: Chaos Weaver
Location: Standing between all life and death
Posts: 2,898

You could take a look, you know. I don't think there's anything against looking.

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Apr 20, 2009, 11:02 pm

#11

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

Looking through LIVAN's source code hurts my brain

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Apr 22, 2009, 5:32 am

#12

zombie

Joined: Feb 28, 2008
Occupation: Web developper
Location: Paris
Posts: 38

I started working on the modification to the source once to add an unique char, and depending of what you want, it could be quite hard. I searched and reused Huang Ming Pong code to achieve this. When you want to add new things, try to search first for something similar, it could help greatly !
I'm sorry I can't help you more, I stopped working on my mod (but he's not dead !) for a while and can't remember what you need to modify.

Apr 23, 2009, 4:21 pm

#13

Atavus

Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770

Thanks Planplan.
As soon as I figure it all out, I'll post a tutorial for everyone

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Apr 24, 2009, 8:42 am

#14

Mage Prophet

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Occupation: Chaos Weaver
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Posts: 2,898

Awesome. Good luck with that.

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Apr 26, 2009, 8:29 am

#15

mutant ass

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My plan of learning the ins and outs of IVAN was to do a lot of source diving. This will help you understand a lot of stuff to get you going but it won't help you learn to program it. LIVAN is alllllllll copy-and-paste work

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