[Trigger] -save -load Code

[Hordeon]

Hi all, im need a professional, but easy usuable -save -load Code (For RPG)
Can anyone help? I like helpers...


IF YOU HELP ME WITH -SAVE -LOAD I GIVE YOU +REP

 

[Starquizer]

Please explain what you need; I can't understand exactly what you need. Do you mean by save/load saving and loading into game cache ?

 

[Hordeon]

I need a succesful -save -load code...
It saves: All hero inventory, Hero stats, Hero Level, Hero Name, Hero XP, Gold and Lumber.

 

[Starquizer]

I need a succesful -save -load code...
It saves: All hero inventory, Hero stats, Hero Level, Hero Name, Hero XP, Gold and Lumber.

Use game cache, do you know it ?

 

[Dr Super Good]

That only works in single player.

Basically all you need to do is store your hero into strings which can be decoded.
I think WC3C has quite a number of ready made save systems which you can just plug your values into / get values from.

 

[Hordeon]

Thanks Dr.SuperGood (+rep). You really helped me.

But how i can save it to variables with code??? Give me an example please.

 

[Starquizer]

But how i can save it to variables with code??? Give me an example please.

That is something from Blizzard Campaigns

• Next Level Prep
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- Save hero data --------
    • Game Cache - Create a game cache from Campaigns.w3v
    • If ((Arthas has Ledger) Equal to True) then do (Item - Remove Ledger) else do (Do nothing)
    • Game Cache - Store Arthas as Arthas of Human02 in (Last created game cache)
    • Game Cache - Save (Last created game cache)
    • -------- Enable next level --------
    • Game - Enable Human 02

You could download one of the MPQ extractors in this site and extract Blizzard Maps and see how they work. When you see it for yourself is better than one to tell you how.

 

[Smiddle]

That is something from Blizzard Campaigns

• Next Level Prep
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- Save hero data --------
    • Game Cache - Create a game cache from Campaigns.w3v
    • If ((Arthas has Ledger) Equal to True) then do (Item - Remove Ledger) else do (Do nothing)
    • Game Cache - Store Arthas as Arthas of Human02 in (Last created game cache)
    • Game Cache - Save (Last created game cache)
    • -------- Enable next level --------
    • Game - Enable Human 02

You could download one of the MPQ extractors in this site and extract Blizzard Maps and see how they work. When you see it for yourself is better than one to tell you how.

That won't work in multiplayer though, would it?

 

[Starquizer]

That won't work in multiplayer though, would it?

He want it for a multiplayer map ? then I can't help you much; never created a map for multiplayer.

But can't you make more than one slot in the cache to save it for every player and when a player joins the game make a trigger the register this event and then load data from cache.

 

[GhostWolf]

That is something from Blizzard Campaigns
...

Are you blind? He obviously wants this for Battle.net.

But how i can save it to variables with code??? Give me an example please.

You just encode whatever data you want.
Say you want to "save" gold, lumber, current food and the maximum food of a player, the most simple way would be to change them all to strings and put them one after another, so say a player has:
Gold: 10000
Wood: 300
Food: 40
Max Food: 80

You have two basic ways to put it, it can be something like this
0100000003004080

This will give you to save up to 999999 of each resource and up to 99 of food, but it will take a longer string then needed if you don't actually have the full cap.

The other easy way would be something like this (using the same states):
g10000w300f40m80

This way you can save less data if you do not have the maximum cap on everything, but if you do have the maximum - your string is longer then needed.

So, that's how you "save" (encode) data. Of course this is probably the worst encoding seen, ever, so you'd need to find better ways.

A fast improvement would be to change everything to Hexadecimel base (or a bigger base if you can make one ).

g2710w12cf28m50

It will also make the code a little less obvious to the users, and you want to do that in order for them to not abuse it.

 

[Starquizer]

Are you blind? He obviously wants this for Battle.net.

I didn't know it was a multiplayer map at first; I thought he just want a normal single campaign, that's it.

 

[Smiddle]

Are you blind? He obviously wants this for Battle.net.



You just encode whatever data you want.
Say you want to "save" gold, lumber, current food and the maximum food of a player, the most simple way would be to change them all to strings and put them one after another, so say a player has:
Gold: 10000
Wood: 300
Food: 40
Max Food: 80

You have two basic ways to put it, it can be something like this
0100000003004080

This will give you to save up to 999999 of each resource and up to 99 of food, but it will take a longer string then needed if you don't actually have the full cap.

The other easy way would be something like this (using the same states):
g10000w300f40m80

This way you can save less data if you do not have the maximum cap on everything, but if you do have the maximum - your string is longer then needed.

So, that's how you "save" (encode) data. Of course this is probably the worst encoding seen, ever, so you'd need to find better ways.

A fast improvement would be to change everything to Hexadecimel base (or a bigger base if you can make one ).

g2710w12cf28m50

It will also make the code a little less obvious to the users, and you want to do that in order for them to not abuse it.

Nice, just some questions:
1. Can the game convert decimal to hexadecimal, or does one have to do it manually?
2. Is there any easy way to separate the g, w, f and m values from each other?

 

[GhostWolf]

Nice, just some questions:
1. Can the game convert decimal to hexadecimal, or does one have to do it manually?
2. Is there any easy way to separate the g, w, f and m values from each other?

1. You need to do it by yourself.

2. The nice thing in encoding is that you can do it any way you want. As long as you can get back the data correctly, it can look however you want it to look.

Of course you do need to think about the poor users. They probably don't want a long code to start copying, so try to shrink the size as much as you can, while maintaining its 'secrecy', since those 'poor' users won't be so poor if they know what every section of the code does.

 

[Smiddle]

Ah, OK.

 

[cjp2008]

Nothing will stop a player with mapping knowledge from opening your map in mpq editors to read how the save/load works, obfuscation won't help much too, just try to keep the save code short and the sections less obvious(swap digis, use hex etc) for normal players. And encoding player name into save load is a welcome addition too, assuming nicks are unique in the same realm on battle.net

 

[Hordeon]

Yes its for multiplayer map. I already know how to -save -load in single player... Game Cache... I know it.

 

[Hordeon]

Emm... Next question how do you post trigger-based posts like that?
Next Level Prep

Events

Conditions

Actions

-------- Save hero data --------

Game Cache - Create a game cache from Campaigns.w3v

If ((Arthas has Ledger) Equal to True) then do (Item - Remove Ledger) else do (Do nothing)

Game Cache - Store Arthas as Arthas of Human02 in (Last created game cache)

Game Cache - Save (Last created game cache)

-------- Enable next level --------

Game - Enable Human 02

 

[wuss15]

clik copy to tekst and post it here with the:
[TRIG*GER] yourtekst [/TRIGGER]

the * you have to remove, it was just so you could see the code

 

[Starquizer]

[TRIGGER]
Trigger
_Events
__Unit - A unit Dies
_Conditions
__Dying unit Equal to No Unit
_Actions
__Do nothing
[/TRIGGER]


replace _ with SPACE

 

[Starquizer]

clik copy to tekst and post it here with the:
[TRIG*GER] yourtekst [/TRIGGER]

the * you have to remove, it was just so you could see the code

Actually you could use [plain][TRIGGER][/TRIGGER][/plain] to disable BBcode.

 

[Hordeon]

thank you! Starquizer you really helped me! +REPhttp://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/starquizer/