Going to a passage automatically/refreshing current passage? (Harlowe)

Riotpopper · September 2016

So I'm making a combat system, but currently I can't figure out how to automatically refresh the current passage to display updates to player and enemy health without using a (goto: "Combat Scene") to reopen the passage.

I decided to try and use a $currentpassage vareiable to help me change the target passage when necessary, but I can't get that to work in anything but a link, but I don't want it as a link, I want it to automatically go to the Passage matching the name of the string I saved in $currentpassage

Here is what I have written in the combat scene so far:

(set: $currentpassage to "Combat Scene")
(link-goto: "$currentpassage")
(print: $enemystats's Name)
HP: (print: $enemystats's Health)
(print: $enemystats's Description)


Player damage dealt last turn: $totalplayerdamagedealt

Enemy damage dealt last turn: $totalenemydamagedealt

[Attack]<Attack|

(click: ?Attack)[ 
(set: $totalplayerdamagedealt to 0)
(set: $totalplayerdamagedealt to it + (random: $playerstats's weaponmindamage, $playerstats's weaponmaxdamage) + $playerstats's Strength/2) 
(set: $enemystats's Health to it - $totalplayerdamagedealt - $enemystats's defense)
(goto: "$currentpassage")]

greyelf · September 2016

Instead of answering your question I am going to suggest you use a combination of named hooks and (replace: ) macros to implement the user-interface of your fight scene. That way you don't need to keep reloading/visiting the same passage repeatably for a single fight.

1. Setup the required variables (in a passage) before the Fight Scene passage, an idea place to do this is in your story's startup tagged passage which is processed before the story starts.

note: Because you did not provided an example of the initial values of your variables I had to make a guess what those values may be.

{
(set: $enemyStats to (datamap: "Name", "Hogger", "Health", 100, "Description", "Big and ugly", "Defense", 4))

(set: $playerStats to (datamap: "Strength", 18, "WeaponMinDamage", 1, "WeaponMaxDamage", 6))

(set: $totalPlayerDamageDealt to 0)
(set: $totalEnemyDamageDealt to 0)

}[[Start Fight->Fight Scene]]

2. The Fight Scene passage, or a brief example of a starting point of one.

You would need to add things like: the enemy's attack logic; what happens when someone dies; and a link to exit the passage.

(print: $enemyStats's Name)
HP: [(print: $enemyStats's Health)]<enemyHP|
(print: $enemyStats's Description)

Player damage dealt last turn: [$totalPlayerDamageDealt]<playerDamage|

Enemy damage dealt last turn: [$totalEnemyDamageDealt]<enemyDamage|

(link-repeat: "Attack")[{
	<!-- Calculate what damage was done.  -->
	(set: $totalPlayerDamageDealt to it +
		((random: $playerStats's WeaponMinDamage, $playerStats's WeaponMaxDamage) + ($playerStats's Strength / 2)))

	(set: $enemyStats's Health to it - ($totalPlayerDamageDealt - $enemyStats's Defense))

	<!-- Update the user interface. -->
	(replace: ?enemyHP)[(print: $enemyStats's Health)]
	(replace: ?playerDamage)[$totalPlayerDamageDealt]
	(replace: ?enemyDamage)[$totalEnemyDamageDealt]
}]

Riotpopper · September 2016

Thanks! That actually helps a lot, it is much smoother now!

Now all I need to do is keep researching how to add a GUI of some sort

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