Re: [Enigma-devel] glasses and it_coins

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Mark Pulley wrote:
> Is there a way to set a particular it_coin to transform into glasses 
> with particular spotting qualities? (And if not, should this be added?)

No, all large it_coin transform to the same it_extralife objects and 
finally to one sort of it_glasses that is determined by the global 
attribute.

Nevertheless user attributes attached to unique a coin instance will 
surive transformations. The final it_glasses will still have the values 
of "name" and any user attribute of the coin. Even though an author 
could use this feature to reset the "state" attribute of an it_glasses 
within a ot_timer callback, I do not recommend this solution in this 
case. The user does not expect identical looking coins to transform to 
different glasses, as it is no feature of Enigma. The level would need 
sufficient hints to justify such an exception.

> I can use wo["ExtralifeGlasses"] for all coins, but I can't find a way 
> to set particular coins to spot particular things. I tried using 
> state=SPOT_HOLLOW on the coin but it didn't like it (state for coins 
> currently defines the coin value). The main thing I want to prevent is 
> the use of the extralife in the inventory to make the glasses, although 
> I was planning for two coins in the level, with only one being useful 
> for glasses. The shortcut I'm using so far is
>
> wo["ExtralifeGlasses"] = SPOT_HOLLOW (etc)
> wo["ProvideExtralifes"] = false

The object that you should use for such transformations is the 
it_surprise. The user knows that instances of it_surprise can transform 
to quite different objects.

ti["g"] = {"it_glasses", state=SPOT_HOLLOW}
ti["s"] = {"it_surprise", selection={"=g"}}

will give you an object that transforms to a unique sort of glasses.

> but I'm hoping not to give too much away by the absence of the extralives.

With the it_surprise usage you can still provide extralives that 
transform to useless sort of glasses.

Greets,

Ronald