Instance Manager

[Devil_Lord2]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

Quote #1 don't forget to bold something mash the keyboard until your hand hurts slap on a band-aid and let's bold this part too

just gonna toss in the definition of a word now

aph·ro·dis·i·ac:
A food, drink, or drug that stimulates sexual desire.
A thing that causes excitement.

yup


Quote#2 it's random.
There was this one time that I bolding this part here fell down the stairs. It was painful. That's kind of how I feel when you post. booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold Never forget to bold randomly. ever



Learning is hard. Especially when you can only think in large paragraphs and always feel the need to explain yourself (just like Bayne). :U wuuuuuuuuuut


random video



Conclusion
"Most people in this room are playing their cards, Lex Veldhuis is playing poker"


every post needs at least two videos

Why does that quote fit in here? It doesn't, but nobody is going to read my post just like nobody reads your posts.

Ahh.. sorry, I read your post. :X
I suppose all the statements are void... My bad.. @.@;;
Also, bold words can be used to assert statements or ideas, or even ease reading for others. It can also be used to give topic heads, so those who want to skip to the important parts can. You might learn this is technical writing which is very interesting. In case you wanted to know.

Also, I think you should advertise my work more, we could make a good team.

[ff7chocoboknight]

Originally Posted by Devil_Lord2

Also, I think you should advertise my work more, we could make a good team.

I picked that video because it's one of the more laughable ones.

[Devil_Lord2]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

I picked that video because it's one of the more laughable ones.

I thought you liked cows...
You've brought the topic way off topic,
I'm going to stop posting in it.

Also was not my intent..
Don't take my cow.

[ff7chocoboknight]

I grew up in a farm. I hated barnyard animals.

[cbk1994]

I'm honestly not sure how much easier I can make this. More verbose perhaps?

1. As the OP says, give the NPC-server proper rights to the folder where you'll store your levels and the folder where your template levels are stored.
   
   
   
2. Upload the scripts in the archive attached to the OP, making these changes to the script InstanceManager before hitting "apply":
   • Change the temp path
   • Change the unstick path
   Note: Since it is a SCRIPT, the code for the InstanceManager goes into the NPC's SCRIPT.
   
   
   
3. Create your instance class (e.g. "quest_instance") from the code in the OP, adjusting it for your situation.
   
   
   
4. Add your instance type to the script of the InstanceManager, using the commented-out easter map instance type as an example (as stated in OP).
   
   
   
5. Copy the code in the OP for creating a new instance, adapt it into your code. For example, a door that warps players to a new quest instance:
   
   

Congratulations, you're now using instances.

[ff7chocoboknight]

Ol' West :D

[Devil_Lord2]

Thank you for taking your time to provide steps, I'll send this to Cujo.

[smirt362]

Pretty cool, I wonder if you could do a randomized dungeon sort of thing with it where you have premade level pieces that get stitched together in a random order.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by smirt362

Pretty cool, I wonder if you could do a randomized dungeon sort of thing with it where you have premade level pieces that get stitched together in a random order.

Googi would be all over that.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by smirt362

Pretty cool, I wonder if you could do a randomized dungeon sort of thing with it where you have premade level pieces that get stitched together in a random order.

Maloria has a system like that.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by smirt362

Pretty cool, I wonder if you could do a randomized dungeon sort of thing with it where you have premade level pieces that get stitched together in a random order.

FP4 did that and posted it up here. :]

I think it requires this one to be included somewhere, somehow, someplace.

[Draenin]

I am having issues with only one thing so far, and that's the Instance Manager NPC you specified earlier. It doesn't seem to be recognizing the emergency exit commands and whatnot, and I'm not entirely sure what to do about it. RC kicks back the following errors:

Originally Posted by RC

Script: Function unknown_object.waitForSetup not found at line 29 in script of InstanceManager (in level onlinestartlocal.nw at pos (30.5, 30))
Script: Function unknown_object.setInstanceID not found at line 31 in script of InstanceManager (in level onlinestartlocal.nw at pos (30.5, 30))
Script: Function unknown_object.setTempPath not found at line 8 in script of InstanceManager (in level onlinestartlocal.nw at pos (30.5, 30))
Script: Function unknown_object.setEmergencyExit not found at line 9 in script of InstanceManager (in level onlinestartlocal.nw at pos (30.5, 30))

And here's what I have entered currently:

PHP Code:

function onInitialized() {
  this.trigger("created");
}

function onCreated() {
  // basic setup
  GameInstance = newInstanceTemplate("TStaticVar");
  GameInstance.setTempPath("levels/temp/"); // folder which holds resources
  GameInstance.setEmergencyExit("main_av-24.nw", 30, 30);
  
  /*
  // Easter Maps
  EasterMapInstance = newInstanceTemplate("GameInstance");
  
  // you can specify temp folders or exits for each instance,
  // like this:
  EasterMapInstance.setTempPath("levels/eastermaps/");
  
  EasterMapInstance.join("easter2k11_instance_map");*/
}

function newInstanceTemplate(parent) {
  temp.instance = new (@ parent)();
  
  if (! ("instance" in instance.joinedclasses)) {
    instance.join("instance");
  }
  
  instance.waitForSetup();
  
  instance.setInstanceID("invalid");
  instance.setup = false;
  return instance;
}

public function registerInstance(instance) {
  this.instance.(@ instance.getInstanceID()) = instance;
}

public function getInstance(id) {
  return this.instance.(@ id);
} 


I haven't changed level names or anything yet. It's a fresh install, but I'll be changing them later. Anyway, what would the fix for this be? Everything else seems to be working fine so far. Great work, man.

[cbk1994]

My guess would be that the instance class isn't being joined to the object. Does it exist, and does it contain the right script? Do those functions work if you join it to some random NPC?

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

My guess would be that the instance class isn't being joined to the object. Does it exist, and does it contain the right script? Do those functions work if you join it to some random NPC?

Well, I should explain what I've done so far:

1. Unzipped the files, copy-pasted the scripts in the zip file's 'class' folder to two classes. (instance_main, instance_level)
2. Copy-pasted the script in the zip file's 'npcs' folder to the InstanceManager NPC and added stuff from your first post.
3. Created a third class called instance_control from stuff in your first post.


Haven't attempted to post the first bit of code you posted that creates the instance, but when I copy-paste the code from the InstanceManager text in the zip file into the NPC, I get those errors. The other things seem to be fine.

Is this how it's supposed to be set up? I tried joining a level NPC to the code in each one of those three classes I made, but it still doesn't fix the problem which seems to be coming from the NPC instead.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Draenin

Well, I should explain what I've done so far:

1. Unzipped the files, copy-pasted the scripts in the zip file's 'class' folder to two classes. (instance_main, instance_level)
2. Copy-pasted the script in the zip file's 'npcs' folder to the InstanceManager NPC and added stuff from your first post.
3. Created a third class called instance_control from stuff in your first post.


Haven't attempted to post the first bit of code you posted that creates the instance, but when I copy-paste the code from the InstanceManager text in the zip file into the NPC, I get those errors. The other things seem to be fine.

Is this how it's supposed to be set up? I tried joining a level NPC to the code in each one of those three classes I made, but it still doesn't fix the problem which seems to be coming from the NPC instead.

"instance_main" probably needs to be just "instance" (just guessing from your naming what you did, but there should be an "instance" class). It's the base instance, not an actual usable instance, so "instance_main" doesn't really make sense. The NPC expects the class to be named just "instance" which is the root of your trouble.

I wrote out these instructions later on (in case you didn't see them):

Originally Posted by cbk1994

1. As the OP says, give the NPC-server proper rights to the folder where you'll store your levels and the folder where your template levels are stored.
   
   
   
2. Upload the scripts in the archive attached to the OP, making these changes to the script InstanceManager before hitting "apply":
   • Change the temp path
   • Change the unstick path
   Note: Since it is a SCRIPT, the code for the InstanceManager goes into the NPC's SCRIPT.
   
   
   
3. Create your instance class (e.g. "quest_instance") from the code in the OP, adjusting it for your situation.
   
   
   
4. Add your instance type to the script of the InstanceManager, using the commented-out easter map instance type as an example (as stated in OP).
   
   
   
5. Copy the code in the OP for creating a new instance, adapt it into your code. For example, a door that warps players to a new quest instance:
   
   

Congratulations, you're now using instances.