Picking up item

[Rebenely]

Hello,
What I want is for my character to pick up an item. No inventory just the item to be held by the character
I have three ideas on how to do it:

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Collision -> Script Editor -> button press -> Pick up item

The problem is I when I use getKeyState, I can long press the button and it will equip/throw the item. The solution I think is to simulate a keydown event in script editor without repetition.

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Key Down -> Script Editor -> Collision -> Pick up item

The problem here is I can't see any collision function that will check if two objects collide.

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Global Code -> bool colliding
Collision -> Script Editor -> colliding = true
Key Down -> Script Editor -> if(colliding) -> Pick up item

I have more problems with this one: I don't like having many global vars, How would I know what item I'm colliding with.

I need help how to pick up an item, and if you ask me I like the first one the best since it's the first thing that came to my mind. I am actually using it, but the long press problem is really an issue. And for the second one, I think it can be solved by a global var bool collider which I really don't like.

Thank you for reading this long post of mine.

[bat78]

• A collision event could be called once as long as you don't change the option "Repeat this event" that defaults to "No".
  
• You can check whether an actor is in collision with another actor on several ways. One way is to use a function dedicated for it:
  

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  if(!CollisionFree(name, x, y))
{
    // What to do if this actor collides another actor
}

  
  
• To have access to the player you are colliding with, you can use the "collide" actor variable as long as it is in a collision event.
  myactor -> Add -> Collision -> Of Actor: "Any Actor" -> Edit Action -> Script Editor:
  

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  collide.transp = 1.0f; // This code will set the actor you have collision with to invisible.

  
  
• Here is a demo for you of how I would do it:
  

  pickup test.zip

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  It uses an array of Actor pointers to store the actors you have collision with. That way you can easily access all of those actors and do w/e you want with them so it obviously provides you a full control over the picked up items. Check the scripts and you will see how.
  Move forward with the right arrow key.

[Rebenely]

Thank you!
I just used the CollisionFree functions since it's just a single item, but the bag demo looks really useful. I might be using it someday.

[bat78]

Thank you!
I just used the CollisionFree functions since it's just a single item, but the bag demo looks really useful. I might be using it someday.

Yes, it is a base system of Game-Editor styled full inventory and picking up interplay.
Requires some Game-Editor knowledge.

If I had to improve it, I would start with:
- Stacking (Checking if two items are compatible by whether they share the same Actor settings and if so, removing them all and changing them to clones instead)
- Sorting (By clonename, by name (alphabetical), by turn etc)
- Replacing (for example last actor to come on the place of first - bag[0])
- Restrictions (only actors which name starts with "PICKUP_" could be picked up)
- Array sized with the number of "PICKUP_" actors loaded in the game.