Shoot npc with radius and elevation
 

Hi guys, I been at it again (last time i was at it the 3 page light jello script)

Here is a fun little npc you could easily make a shooting weapon out of. The part where an object gets shot is not included,
this is just feeding stuff to the shoot command.

Press left and right to change the angle.

Press up and down to change the elevation.

Press and hold D to shoot at that angle and elevation.

Hold D and press up, down, left, right for cool shooting patterns.
For educational purposes, free to extract and use in your npcs provided you keep the header thing there with my website address.

Have fun!

would be better if it actually shot at the direction the red dot was facing instead of shooting up when it was down and down when it was up

complain complain complain... is that all people do?

Personally I think its really cool :D

holy geez
 

For everythign else that script does, most graal players would not be aware of it. You pick the ONE thing that is of by 180 degrees on up and down (left and right work) and complain! GEEZ!

NEW RULE: if you complain that something dosent work, OFFER A SoULITION IN THAT SAME POST! please!

Hey prozac, did you get my forum pm?

I would have to agree w/ you Prozac =P Good idea. When skilled NAT's are willing to post scripts, don't complain. Say, oh, it could have this in it, or this could be changed, but don't be like "this is stupid!" or "pointless". Say thanks, post some POSITIVE comments (No one likes a pessimest!), and get on with it. I may check it out l8er, but if it is just your up->down and down->up that is mixed up, perhaps you switched dir 0 with dir 2? Or depends on how you did it. L8er
---Shifter

Here:
Have fun its all fixed up :P

By the way this is S.S.Link

I fixed it to shoot at the right angle and all.
Also added arrow ganis and such and made it a weapon

here, thast other one was what i did when it was 5 in the morning and i was tired

all you really had to do was in the shoot command have it shoot at the angle*(-1)
which reverse the number :)

One more fix ....
 

Ok folks,

Here is the nearly-finished NPC (thanks s.s. link!)
for the bow.

One thing left to add
(and you will see commented out where i tired)
is getting this.angle and this.sangle
based on the players starting position,
that they will be pointing the angle at where they are facing when they go to shoot.

If you have ever shot a bow in arrow in real life,
you take the arrow, nock it (put it on the string) and draw
back, holding it in place til you aim and fire.

So, here you press and hold D, left and right to adjust angle,
up and down to adjust elevation, then Release D to shoot, just like real life, heh.

Post a fix whenst you discovereth it, ye valiant scipters you.

Here: already did that just didn't post it

It is basicly finished.

like my rock script on enigma.

can shoot rocks on any angle on a 360* radias and change the height from .5 to 1.5 and in between.

hm?
 

An enigma? isnt that something you shove up your butt when your constipated? oh wait thats an enema...

I never seen a script like that before but i'm not suprised that it's already been done. Graal has been around a while and there are thousands of people who have it downloaded.
Its like trying to write a song on guitar, every single chord combination and progression has already been done, even if you never heard it, jsut because its been around for so long.
There is nothing new left to to be made. (unles a completely new command comes out heh)

Re: hm?
 

I am VERY sorry Prozac, but that is about the DUMBEST thing I've ever heard x.X That is SO untrue. While MUCH has been done, you have to be good and skilled to make new things.
---Shifter

you make me laugh
 

HAHAHAHA! That is the voice of inexperience!

What is Graal? A video game.
How long have people been makign video games?
almost thirty years.
Why do people make video games?
To try and emulate things that they think of in their mind by usign a computer.
How long have people been having ideas?
more than four thousand years!

The computer and video games and graal
are all new ways of doing the same thing;
expressing ideas in a particular medium.

In the history of the world, nothing new is left to do anymore.
Everything that is will pass away into myth,
Everything that has been, will be again,
the cycle of eternal thought in the etherial
consiousness form which our 'creativity' is born
and drawn from is our way of reaching through the
fabric of space and time, takign form the past,
making it anew, and catupulting that action into the future
for another to grab in the intangible pain of thought,
that they might claim an idea as their own
when really it belongs to the cosmos.

this is the nature of the universe, my friend.

contexts
 

Nothign has inherent value? Then letters would have no value, neither would words, nor opinion, nor anything that was ever said by anyone. But that is not the case, or you would have not replied to my post.

Value is an abstract of potential worth and importance that varies from person to person - BUT each person has an inset internal subconsious heigherarchy of value - of good and bad, of right and wrong, sense of justice, etc.

I submit that there are certain truths in the universe that apply to everyone the same, and that to find out what they are is the subject of philosophy down through the ages. That there are some absolutes out there from which no one can escape.

And yes, perhaps the scope of my view of the cosmos was too wide when this is a little bitty graal forum with maybe a few dozen regular participants.

And while things that have not appeared on Graal before does not they have appeared on another video game before.
And if not in a game, then another program - or on paper - or form someone's train of thought - if not form this planet, then form another planet that we are totally unaware of.

The are a very large but limited amount of combinations of human DNA, and with six billion peopel on this planet alive now, not to mention that many and more who have lived and died since the beginings of humanity, no one is living now whose dna patterne - and possibly, thought processes - have not lived and happened before. Though lost to history with no record, i still think all has been done and we are doing it again, i know i can't back that up
but ... oh wait this is the scripting forum not philosophy class. heh

The assumption that "there is nothing new under the sun" is quite false... As false as saying there aren't an infinite number of numbers... or an infinite number of rational numbers between two integers.. You can always add 1.

Kai, your too darn smart to be playing graal.

-Jinx

You could play Asheron's Call or NwN ;)

then what does exist?
 

Going back to that lower level, (because before you can abstaract to a higher level you have to have your lower level in place - or its like putting the roof of a house under the basement and it falls apart)

How do you know that the universe exists? If in my mind, someone i have never met does not exist. When I meet them, they exist in my own internal mental universe.
That person is given value, definition, description in my mental database of the cosmos.

When all the people who know that person grow old and die, and that person grows old and dies, does that erase the existence of that person? The atomic memory brain structure of all knowledge of that person is gone, they made no lasting written or pictoral record of their existence. Does that mean they never existed?
Of course not. The universe did not start when you were born, nor will it end when you die.
The universe is kind of like a web server, and our minds are web browsers, copying things down and runnign them though our own little filters till a text or picture, sound or motion fits into our own way of making sesne.

THe absolutes of the universe do not change, but they way each person filers the attributes to build a reality they can live in varies.

Again, there are certain truths in the universe that apply to everyone and everything, and from which there is no escape.
Some of these may be moral truths, like it is wrong for one person to kill another, who would say that is a false statement?
Certain filters that contradict the univeral truths would also be int his persons mindset, and you would find that this person may think that other rules and laws do not apply to them.

Your knowledge of these things is based on what?
On your observation that these could be some of the absolute
truths that apply to everyone, one or the other?
Such a realization should not be ignored, but investigated..

One of the universal truths is that the Universe did not happen by itself. Something, someone, set it up and is maintainign it.
Again like a website - it did not happen by itself and does not stay up and make sense unless it is taken care of constantly. (my irl job is a webmaster, i know)

And if the universe - or rather, that which controls the universe - knows you exist, and you are alive and breahting right now - then why is it so hard to accept that you may not be able to change your future? Such a supremem being would have time and space layed out before him like a map or number line. We just see it infentesimal time unit by infentesimal time unit.

Whatever happened was destined to happen since before the universe began, and each persons life does have a purpose in the universe. Why else would a universe maker bother to have that person be made? If you ever make a graal quest, you would not likely have put in an npc charachter without some kind, no matter how insignfigant, a purpose.

To the universe - again, the supreme force driving the universe - everythign that it went to the trouble of creating does indeed have value and a purpose.
You might think that I am imposing human qualities on the universe's propponent - BUT - as far as we have experinced, humankind are the most intelegent beings in the universe - why not then, would the creator make us to think like it does?

Ever try to make an npc to act like an online person that oculd pass a graal based turing test? (coulnd not tell if it was human or machine driven) Such creative tentencies in people, I suspect were placed in us to ask jsut such questions, that by looking at how we view the universe, we may understand a little something of the one who set the univese into motion.

Kind of like an artist signing every masterpiece he creates, and every human mind and heart is a masterpiece in itself.

--- and the quote from "there is nothing new under the sun",
that was from the book of Ecclisiates in the Bible, and if you think that the Bible carries a false message, well that is an obstacle that only you can decide to overcome. It does not mean that there is a limit to the inifinite amount of numbers that exist;
the creator of the universe is likely an infinite being, with no begining or end, and people are finite.

Anythign that has an essense of infinitey exists beyond the constaints of time and space, let alone the sun.
Numbers are nothign new, the are not original, they always have been and always will be - and mahematical facts, theres some absolute truths to munch on kiddies!

hmm
 

i see this whole conversation has been a waste of time.

You are ninteen? I am 26, I have graduated college, and minored in Biblical studies in a five year program.

I used the work "Kiddies" because more than 80% of those who play graal are under the age of 15. That, and everyoen is somebody's kid.

I have a book of 40 reasons why there must be a God, but if you cannot accept such a simple concept that ther Is a God and He cares about your well being, then I pity you.

How many philosophy classes have you had at a college level curriculum? I have four under my belt, and like most, have gone with more questions than anwers.

Do not think of what I said as contradictions, but as thesis, antithesis, from which a synthesys can be made.

My iq may only be 128, but that is just an above averare number, not a genius. Even a genius can be a totaly rude and you have proved that in your last paragraph. There was no call for that.
But im not going to hold my breath for an apology.

How do I define wrong? One definition, Something that contradicts absolute fact. Pi is exactly three. that is wrong.

And Hume was wrong in many points also. Its been five years since I read his work but i remeber the feeling of him beign messed up.

Why must there be a creator?
Lets start with how you came into being, you were born of your parents. You parents had their own parents and so on down the line. Either there were an infinite set of anscestors, or there was at one time a first set of people or liging organisms set in place by something that had the knowoelge and power to make living organisms.

Why must a creator constantly take care of creation?
Why does a light bulb stay on? There is a constant presence
of electrons causing it to emit light and heat. God is kid of the electricity that keeps the universe going; i know thats not the best analogy but its been a long day at work form which i jsut got home.

You are of course free to completely disregard everythign i say,
becasue as much as you are destined to end up at a certain place in life, the illusion of free will is there for all of us, as none of us knows our own future..

and yes people have called me wise and come to me for counsel before on spiritual and other such matters.

If anyone is pompous, its the one who calls himself a genius...

Hm, I think I need to take an IQ test somewhere, so I can figure out how much smarter everyone is than me.

-Jinx

ok
 

There are at least two kinds of intelligence - the kind your basic iq test gives you for being able to solve problems through logic,
and the emotional intelligence, which is far more inporatnt in the 40 hour or more work week world, casue you gotta deal with people all the time.

That's the diffrence between your Hit1er-Stalin types, and your Einstein-Tesla types.

They were all very intelligent and good at solving problems.

Knowing how to deal with people in a way of respect that is morally right and knowing what is wrong is the stark contrast between them.

Close this thread if you want, Kai.... no hard feelings I hope.
Good discusion though i was not always coherent, heh.

Edited to fix the typo in my quote >_< - Kaimetsu

Dun close it Kai, it's fun watching you two argue.

I don't mean that in a bad way, your both smart people, reading all of this has made me think of some things i've never bothered to think of before.

-Jinx

hmm
 

well I dont feel like arguing anymore.
The nature of the stuff we have posted about
is such that no one can be totally conviced
one way or the other, based on empirical evidence.
It would require some sense of faith,
which is not a scientific concept beyond that
you sit in a chair becasue you have faith it will support your weight, and past succesful results based on sense experince.

The only way i would continue in making effort to
defend and further my case is if i had an audience
who at least shares some of the religious deterministic values
that i have.

Instead of a wall to bounce ideas off and recieve feedback if it seems that this has become a scene from DBZ,
with mental blasts of words being concentrated and fired in verbal attacks. Some of them make you say - wow what power, and some make you say - ouch, that was mean. I refer to posts from both Kai and myself.

It takes one of two circumstances to argue.
either two people, or one scitzophrenic.

I withrdaw from this thread and train of thought.

Your sig is way to damn big =\.

-Jinx