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General Discussion / Re: Ask the developer a question!
« on: January 22, 2018, 09:21:06 AM »
In the new system (but not the old one), every item instance actually does have its own unique numerical ID! So theoretically, I could implement a system in which the game lets you get the ID for an item in a character's inventory by various methods, and then have an Action that lets you modify the properties for an item by its ID--but I foresee issues with getting the game to pull the correct item when duplicates of a given item types reside in a character's inventory. Suppose you want to upgrade Character A's Bandages, but that character has three different Bandages sitting in their inventory. Which one is the game supposed to pull the ID for? Is it supposed to create an integer list of IDs, each of which the scripter than then inspect the properties of via further Actions in order to pull the correct item? All of this is possible, but you can quickly see what a pain this would turn into to implement. I'd probably have to make it hook into the dialogue UI somehow to present the player with a list of items, with a given stat for each shown in parentheses, so that they could make selections.
The nice thing about an action that just acts on equipped items is that each character can only have one thing equipped in each slot, the fact that an item is equipped already shows that that item is useful to the character, and the UI interaction for changing equipped items is already implemented.
The nice thing about an action that just acts on equipped items is that each character can only have one thing equipped in each slot, the fact that an item is equipped already shows that that item is useful to the character, and the UI interaction for changing equipped items is already implemented.
