Tutorial-Blog Special Movements: Walking on Diagonal Stairs

[Touchfuzzy]

Written by: @hiddenone

Read the Tutorial Here​

 

[ShadowDragon]

even if it's nice, you cannot go back midway though, you can event that
out, but would be tedious, but usefull if you fully event it.

if the stairs is 20 tiles long and you forgot something, you cannot go
back instantly which would be time consuming, I wont suggest it if it's
longer than 5 tiles though.

I use a plugin which is a region/tile based, so you can go back instantly
from start or midway, so it doesn't move automatically.

but it's still a usefull tutorial, even if it's done by serveral peoples

 

[Touchfuzzy]

even if it's nice, you cannot go back midway though, you can event that
out, but would be tedious, but usefull if you fully event it.

if the stairs is 20 tiles long and you forgot something, you cannot go
back instantly which would be time consuming, I wont suggest it if it's
longer than 5 tiles though.

I use a plugin which is a region/tile based, so you can go back instantly
from start or midway, so it doesn't move automatically.

but it's still a usefull tutorial, even if it's done by serveral peoples

The second variation in the tutorial you can absolutely turn around midstairs.

 

[ATT_Turan]

Very nice. The only thing I'd change is make version 2 less efficient. Use the Get Location Info event command to store the region ID in a variable, then reference that.

The people who most need this kind of tutorial need to know what can be done in-engine without having to learn code for script calls.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

Very nice. The only thing I'd change is make version 2 less efficient. Use the Get Location Info event command to store the region ID in a variable, then reference that.

The people who most need this kind of tutorial need to know what can be done in-engine without having to learn code for script calls.

You do have a point, though I'll admit that I like her putting all the calls in it because I knew there was a call for it and was always too lazy to look it up , so it helps more experienced users too.

 

[ATT_Turan]

I knew there was a call for it and was always too lazy to look it up , so it helps more experienced users too.

Sure, that can be a thing - but as you point out, that's laziness A sufficiently experienced/knowledgeable user knows there's a script call for anything the engine does natively, and can look it up via Google or the forum threads with function lists (if it matters enough to them).

Or, at worst, present both in the tutorial. It would only take, like, one or two more screenshots and a few extra sentences of typing to show how to create the system entirely using event commands, and then say "We could streamline this portion by replacing these lines with a script call..."

I'm just thinking in terms of maximum educational effectiveness. It's a helpful tutorial on how to do diagonal stairs without resorting to a plugin.

 

[ShadowDragon]

you can also put all 5 methodes how to do it, pure eventing or a simple
plugin (TSR_SideStairs), which can do the trick, but still, learning how
to code small things are better than a wall of code for 1 mechanic to work.

everyone has profite, even if you need it on 1-3 spots only and not over
and over and over and over again.

however you achieve it is still up to the user

 

[hiddenone]

@ATT_Turan Explaining how to use both event commands and script calls is probably the ideal way to show how to do something, but I worry about it feeling too long or some readers going "yeah, yeah, you already told us one way to do this" and skipping over parts. I also just find script calls to be super useful so I like including them, but you're right about how focusing on the event commands over script calls is more helpful for newer users.

 

[Lornsteyn]

I found the script call thing the best and totally forgot that it exists.
If hadnt seen this, I probably would have made some unnecessary complicated eventing for this.
So thank you for showing different solutions.