Dialog poker system

[Klasus]

I have been trying to figure out how to create a poker game with dialogs like the one in Poker Defense Revolution. The problem is that the only way that I know how to do it requires a lot of actions since there are 52 diffrent kind of cards and 5 card slots. I have figured out how too compare the cards by using arrays. If somebody knows how to make it with a small amount of code, please tell me.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The idea is to de-couple the art from the card.

The actual system works by either keeping track of which type and suit of card the players own or by keeping track of which cards players have (and each card is given a unique type and suit). In the graphic component you then generate the art based on the type and suit of card. The easiest way to do this would be to map type and suit to various art data such as a struct of all the needed visuals. You then feed this art data into your system which generates the corresponding card dialog components.

The important part is to keep card mechanics and card art separately and try and abstract cards into data rather than code.

 

[Klasus]

I might try to split the card into 2 dialog item images, the upper part of the card will be the type of card (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A) and the lower part will be (Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs) that way it will be easier to generate the cards.

 

[CrashLemon]

If I were you, I'd make a 52 integer array and store/retrieve my information from with with a simple function that would return the number of the card, the type and the actual owner.

Here's how I would format it: "NNTPP"
NN: Number of the card, 01-13
T: Type of the card, 1-4
PP: The ID of the player actually owning the card (0-15)

That's my two cents.

 

[Klasus]

If I were you, I'd make a 52 integer array and store/retrieve my information from with with a simple function that would return the number of the card, the type and the actual owner.

Here's how I would format it: "NNTPP"
NN: Number of the card, 01-13
T: Type of the card, 1-4
PP: The ID of the player actually owning the card (0-15)

That's my two cents.

Do you mean like this: Card[01-13][1-4][0-15]? There are also 5 slots for each hand. How so I for example make this Card[01][1][1] show the image of two of hearts for player 1? I have never used functions before, please explain.