Event-based Inventory Dump

[Caustic]

Just want to check on this, because I know it's something of a common thing in RPGs (especially Eastern ones):

Say the party gets captured. Obviously the captors aren't going to leave them armed and well-stocked, so in the story they take away everything the party has (or most everything). Now as the developer I don't know how many items the characters have gotten, so for all I know they could have a single health potion left, or several dozen, but I want them all gone. The player may get them back later but for now they should have (basically) empty pockets.

Is there a quick way to easily dump the player's inventory out, without having to check a bajillion variables or needing to create a script to do as such? 

 

[Kurisu]

If you want to get rid of everything, perhaps the easiest way would be blocking the player's access to the item menu then?

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Well I looked at it, seems like you might not be able to access the list directly (since $game_party.items/armors/weapons return processed data from the actual list, not the list itself)... and I haven't seen a method to do it via the other event commands other than the Script event commands... so

add this script:

class Game_Party def clear_items_all @items = [] @weapons = [] @armors = [] endendthen just use the Script call:

Script: $game_party.clear_items_all

Unless of course you're fine to just create a loop that loops thru all weapons, items and armors and decrease them... that way it won't need the script... but that's quite a huge task to perform... btw, this method only needs 1 variable I believe, just for looping the indexes... since AFAIK, if you use reduce, if it goes below 0, it will simply make it 0... so you can just loop thru each item and reduce by 99...but then again, it's still quite tedious, and performance-wise inferior to the other method since it involves looping thru lots of items...

 

[senpoRiot]

But what if he wants to get all the same items/equipments back before it was taken away?

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

then he needs to ask for it first... XD...

anyway, if he decides it that way, I will really suggest using scripts...

class Game_Party def clear_items_all(save) if save @items_old = @items @weapons_old = @weapons @armors_old = @armors end @items = [] @weapons = [] @armors = [] end def regain_items_lost @items += @items_old @weapons += @weapons_old @armors += @armors_old endendto lose all items while keeping a back-up of everything

Script: $game_party.clear_items_all(true)

use false otherwisethen just use

Script: $game_party.regain_items_lost

if you want to regain those items... note that this is not tested, so I'm not sure if it has some negative implications... I'm thinking it might not be modifying the quantities correctly, gotta test it after eating

 

[Zoltor]

then he needs to ask for it first... XD...

anyway, if he decides it that way, I will really suggest using scripts...

class Game_Party def clear_items_all(save) if save @items_old = @items @weapons_old = @weapons @armors_old = @armors end @items = [] @weapons = [] @armors = [] end def regain_items_lost @items += @items_old @weapons += @weapons_old @armors += @armors_old endendthen just use

Script: $game_party.regain_items_lost

if you want to regain those items... note that this is not tested, so I'm not sure if it has some negative implications... I'm thinking it might not be modifying the quantities correctly, gotta test it after eating

I wanted to try this, but sadly through the script event command, It's not allowing me to have more then 11 lines of script.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

You're not supposed to put it there bro, even if it allowed you, it probably won't do anything...


You put that large code into the scripts section... then just use the 1 liner script I posted on the event command

 

[Zoltor]

Oh yea lol, duh my bad, wasn't thinking(It's almost 6am here)

 

[Caustic]

Okay, will look into testing this script. 

Just to make sure... the "@'name' = [ ]" parts are creating empty arrays for those variables, right?

Also, would this work for, say, when I want to empty out just weapons (say, walking into a night club and for obvious reasons you can't have stabby/shooty things on you), but not items or armor as long as there's a recall as well?

ex: 

class Game_Party  def clear_items_all(save)    if save      @items_old = @items      @weapons_old = @weapons      @armors_old = @armors    end    @items = []    @weapons = []    @armors = []  end  def clear_weaps(save)    if save      @weaps_old = @weapons    end    @weapons = []  end    def regain_items_lost    @items += @items_old    @weapons += @weapons_old    @armors += @armors_old  end    def regain_weaps_lost    @weapons += @weaps_old  endend

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

AFAIK, yes that would work... though as I said, I'm not sure if the item quantities will be adjusted as well... I haven't have time to look at those yet so it might not work correctly for that matter...


EDIT: I looked at it, it seems like the item number is the actual thing saved in those arrays so I think it's all okay...

 

[Caustic]

I'll test it in a bit. Then we'll see if it blows up in my face or not XD

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

btw, make sure you don't run the restore before doing any clear, that will 99.99% throw a nil error during the first time you try it...

 

[Caustic]

Aaaaand throwing an error already @__@

Current layout is as follows: 

"Game" starts;

Character runs over to guard and is given various items (5 potions, 2 weapons [she dual-wields them], 1 piece of body/head armor, and 2 accessories;

Character equips them;

Character then walks down onto black hexagram (remove event);

and then this happens:

ADDENDUM: After another quick test-run, I found that unequipping/ not equipping the items allows the "purge" Event to pass successfully. However, trying to get the items to restore (via a white hexagram, or the "regain" Event) throws a different error that states: "can't convert Hash into Array" @__@

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

what is line 85? anyway, I think it seems like you need to unequip all items first before you try to do the removal script...


which line errors for the next error code?

 

[Caustic]

what is line 85? anyway, I think it seems like you need to unequip all items first before you try to do the removal script...

def items    @items.keys.sort.collect {|id| $data_items[id] }  endEDIT: Removed pic because derp there's already a screenshot of it in my last post @__@

It's stopped showing up when I equip stuff prior to stepping on the black hexagram, but also get this now if I try to open the Equip menu after stepping on it :\

Which line errors for the next error code?

'Game_Interpreter' line 1411. And all it has on it is "eval(script)". :\

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

then it means it's actually a hash, so you need this instead:

class Game_Party  def clear_items_all(save)    if save      @items_old = @items      @weapons_old = @weapons      @armors_old = @armors    end    @items = {}    @weapons = {}    @armors = {}  end  def clear_weaps(save)    if save      @weaps_old = @weapons    end    @weapons = {}  end    def regain_items_lost    @items += @items_old    @weapons += @weapons_old    @armors += @armors_old  end    def regain_weaps_lost    @weapons += @weaps_old  endend

this should eliminate the "keys" error... and possible the next one too, sadly evals only return eval error but never returns what really errored...

 

[Caustic]

Yay! It worked!... Kinda. XD
I had to remove the '+' in the "return items" bit, because it was throwing another error ("undefined method '+' for {}:Hash"), but after doing that it worked!

Now if I could just remove the equipped items.... :\

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

oh, though that means that restoring will remove any item you currently have... w8, I'm gonna look on the operators for hash, there must be something for adding

something like this:

  def regain_weaps_lost     @weaps_old.each do |weap|      #basically we iterate each of the old weapons      #then check if that weapon exists right now      #if yes, we add the amounts, else we set the amount      @weapons[weap[0]].nil? @weapons[weap[0]] = weap[1] : @weapons[weap[0]] += weap[1]    end  end

for the equipped, well find a method to unequip all items before clearing...

 

[Caustic]

Gack.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

oh I forgot that it needs another ?

 def regain_weaps_lost     @weaps_old.each do |weap|      #basically we iterate each of the old weapons      #then check if that weapon exists right now      #if yes, we add the amounts, else we set the amount      @weapons[weap[0]].nil? ? @weapons[weap[0]] = weap[1] : @weapons[weap[0]] += weap[1]    end  end

btw, once it works, you need to do it for items and armors too...