Trouble setting the shape of gralats.

[Jiroxys7]

I altered the gralat class a while back. But I noticed that it's "touch box" extends a few tiles to the left compared to the right. I've tried fixing this with setshape, but it doesn't seem to alter anything. It is still using a gani, and i used the old gralats.gani text file as a template if that matters.
It's kind of annoying really, especially if you drop a gralat to the right of you because then you have to actually "dodge" it's shape or else you'll end up picking it back up.

Any idea what might be causing this?

[MrOmega]

Did you try using setshape2( W, H, ARRAY);

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by MrOmega

Did you try using setshape2( W, H, ARRAY);

No luck. tried a 2x2 area, a 1x1 area, and a 4x4 area. All 3 had the exact same shape.

[MrOmega]

can you show the part of the script with setshape?

[ffcmike]

Is it using showcharacter();?
This will force a 32 x 32 pixel shape with the x and y of the shape being offset by 0.5 and 1 tiles.

[Toxen]

Try,

setshape(1,16,32);

1 - is the shape and I believe their is still only a rectangle you can use so it's 1.
16 - is the width, 1 tile wide
32 - is the height so 2 tiles high.

Should work for the shape of a gralat.

[Crow]

Ganis + shapes can cause some trouble and confusion. If you don't care about bling, convert this to images instead of ganis. You'll then be happy.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Crow

Ganis + shapes can cause some trouble and confusion. If you don't care about bling, convert this to images instead of ganis. You'll then be happy.

Can they? O.o

[Crow]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Can they? O.o

Yup, I'd say they can. Same thing happened to me, basically. Using different shapes will change the actual shape, but in a strange way that still seems inaccurate. I have no idea why.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Crow

Yup, I'd say they can. Same thing happened to me, basically. Using different shapes will change the actual shape, but in a strange way that still seems inaccurate. I have no idea why.

Dunno what you're talking about... I've never had a problem using showcharacter + setshape. It sets the shape of the NPC using the blocking specifications of a player(x+.5,y+1). That's where the blocking starts, instead of the normal 0,0. This allows you to easily create blocking NPC's that also draw a portion of the player(like a tree) simply by aligning it correctly in the gani. This is the same method that 2k2 uses on most of their trees and houses.

[DustyPorViva]

Also:
function onCreated(){
setshape(1,2,32);
this.canplay = 1;
play("item.wav");
setTimer(15);
}
You're setting the shape to 2 pixels. Typo? :P

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Also:
function onCreated(){
setshape(1,2,32);
this.canplay = 1;
play("item.wav");
setTimer(15);
}
You're setting the shape to 2 pixels. Typo? :P

No typo there. Sorta. I was just testing it right now to make sure the shape is actually being set. It's normally 16. Looks like I forgot to revert it in the post. You see, a lot of the time when I post something like this on the forums, I'm in the middle of messing with various portions of the code. I usually have to clean it all up before I post them. Coulda sworn I fixed that part in the post though. Guess not lol

edit: OH right. That was the clientside portion. I remember catching that in my script but neglected to edit my post. That's a different problem I was having where I was picking up the rupee and it was destroying, but no sound was being played about half the time. The canplay stuff was left over when I had it hide and sleep on the serverside after being touched before destroying itself in attempts to give it plenty of time to play the sound in case it was lag. That prevented the sound from playing again when you ran over the spot with the invisible rupee. Didn't fix it though, so I took the serverside portion of the script out. I left the clientside stuff there since I have a jump script that I'm experimenting with. It would play the sound if you jumped over it but didn't actually grab the rupee. On second thought though, I can just put that Z detection there too. Of course, this is all still unrelated to the hitbox problem.