How to share a variable between two classes?

[Hyperly]

I looked this up already and I'm still pretty confused on how it works. I some-what already solved this by just using a global variable outside of all the classes, but that's probably not what most people would recommend. I'm trying to share a variable called camera_smoothing to another class, but i'm unsure how to go about this.

 

[KK20]

Could you share some code so I get an idea what you're trying to do?

 

[Hyperly]

Yeah. This is a part of the option scene where you control the camera's motion smoothing from LittleDrago's motion smoothing script.

in the class Scene_Options

when 'Camera Smoothing'
        if Input.repeat?(Input::LEFT)
          $camera_smoothing -= 1
          if $camera_smoothing < 1
          $camera_smoothing = 16
        end
        @command_window.refresh
        elsif Input.repeat?(Input::RIGHT) 
          $camera_smoothing += 1
          if $camera_smoothing > 16
            $camera_smoothing = 1
          end
          @command_window.refresh
        end

And in LittleDrago's class ModPlayer, i have this little snippet im sharing
sf = $camera_smoothing

Currently the camera smoothing is a global variable, but I was hoping there was a way to do this without needing a global variable. Especially for future reference. I'm never been great with understanding code so I'm still learning.

 

[KK20]

You're talking about this script, right?
So the idea is you're allowing the player to customize the SMOOTH_FACTOR through your game's options scene.

While there isn't anything inherently wrong with using a global here, you could've just done the script call

LiTTleDRAgo::SMOOTH_FACTOR = X

because (at least in 1.8) Ruby will allow you to modify constants during run-time.

The issue though is that your options aren't being saved. They will reset as soon as the player starts up the game again. A common solution is to add an attribute to Game_System, which is saved when the player saves their game.

class Game_System
  attr_accessor :camera_smoothing

  alias init_for_camera_smoothing initialize
  def initialize
    init_for_camera_smoothing 
    @camera_smoothing = 16
  end
end

Now you just do $game_system.camera_smoothing = X. You also want to update the line in Drago's script to look like

sf = $game_system.camera_smoothing.to_f

Yes, the to_f is quite important for better smoothing.

 

[Hyperly]

Oh wow, well that worked thank you. I forgot about saving too and assumed it would've just worked.

 

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