Autosave

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:36 pm

How can I autosave at various points during game play?

gamemakerg · Post by **gamemakerg** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:05 am

that would be awsome but i don't know how

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:45 am

It's not possible with the current RF release. Well, it is possible to save the attributes with a script, but you can't load them. So you could "save" the game but not load it. I believe, however, that there was a modified version of RF (by federico, perhaps?) that had a script command for loading attributes as well.

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:22 am

Now there's a spoke in my wheel, so to speak.

Voltare · Post by **Voltare** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:00 am

we can't "poke" simkin enough to do this?

Post by **Jay** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:34 pm

No.

But i would really like to see saving with scripts myself. I want to disable the saving at every point possible and make a system where you can only save at certain points, like you have to go to the inn and speak to the innkeeper. Or before a bossfight.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:35 pm

Manipulating data in files via script is not something you want your game to do for security purposes. It would be safer to setup a script function to activate a timer with an event "Order". For example, a script command like this:

SetTimedEvent(eventid, frequency, order);

Used like:

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PLAYER_PICKNOSE [1]
SetTimedEvent(PLAYER_PICKNOSE, 2000, "PickNose");

The above tells the player to pick it's nose (or execute the "PickNose" order) every 2 seconds.

RF supports save games now, all someone has to do is expose that function to script and setup a TimedEvent function and...voila...you have autosave. You can even attach the SaveGame script function to a trigger if you do it this way.