Category:Plotscripting

A

• After battle script
• Are you going to add costumes for characters?

C

• Can I use plotscripting to allow people to change my maps when playing my game?
• Can you modify a hero's stats, enemy's stats, money, etc. by a percentage rather than by a whole number with plotscripting?
• Can you modify experience outside of battle with plotscripting?
• Can you retrieve an enemy's attack IDs with plotscripting?
• Coding Standards

E

• ERROR:In line X of dummyplotscripts.hss Song:I'll Wander the World. This isn't a variable, constant, or anything else. It exists in my hsi file, but it says it isn't. What should I do?
• ERROR:in line 746 of plotscr.hsd define trigger,begin expected top-level declaration but found definetrigger. Why does this error occur?
• Eressoft's Free Script Package
• Expected name but defineoperator block ended
• Expected number but found
• Expected top-level declaration but found

H

• HS Decompiler
• HS Importer
• HSI
• HSPEAK.EXE
• HSS
• Hamspeak
• Hamster Whisper
• Hamster Wrench
• HamsterSpeak Specification
• How can I allow the player to rename someone before they join their team?
• How can I allow the player to rename someone who never joins their team?
• How can I make copies of NPCs do distinct things?
• How can I make copies of NPCs do the same thing?
• How can I make it so that an event will happen, when an NPC is pushed onto a certain tile?
• How can I make it so that an inn restores HP, but not MP?
• How can I run a script instead of/before/after the menu comes up?
• How can I set or remove animating maptiles with plotscripting?
• How do I add a timer?
• How do I add arguments to my script and how do I use them?
• How do I add screens before my title game screen?
• How do I advance a text box without pressing the space bar?
• How do I allow players to rename characters?
• How do I avoid script buffer overflows?
• How do I call one script directly from another script?
• How do I change a hero's walkabout and battle graphic set, whether the hero is in the party or not, and regardless of what slot the hero is in, using plotscripting?
• How do I change enemies' stats with plotscripting?
• How do I change the main hero during a cutscene so that the player can't notice it?
• How do I change the walkabout graphic set of an NPC using Plotscripting?
• How do I check if there is already an .sav file using plotscripting?
• How do I check if there is already an npc on the map using plotscripting?
• How do I destroy all the NPCs on a single map?
• How do I destroy more than one copy of an NPC at a time?
• How do I end the game?
• How do I enter NPC references through strings?
• How do I enter names through strings?
• How do I get it to run a script when I level up a certain hero (me)?
• How do I get more control over the display of map names?
• How do I get rid of NPC misalignment?
• How do I give the screen little and/or big shake?
• How do I implement mouse input in my game?
• How do I import my scripts without launching custom.exe and then going in the script managment menu?
• How do I know I have to use more than one hss file?
• How do I level up my hero using plotscripting?
• How do I link script files together?
• How do I make "fake" doors?
• How do I make a "backdrop point"?
• How do I make a "fake" movie using backdrops?
• How do I make a "vending machine?"
• How do I make a Bank where you can store money/items?
• How do I make a HS file?
• How do I make a HSI file?
• How do I make a HSS file?
• How do I make a battle start when you bump into an NPC?
• How do I make a different song play when you ride a vehicle?

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• How do I make a hero look like it's jumping?
• How do I make a presentation for my save point or my restore point?
• How do I make a save slot load automatically instead of the load menu when the game launches?
• How do I make a shop that can be used only one, two or three times?
• How do I make a text box that automatically shows the name of the item that I set it to give?
• How do I make a treasure chest that contains many items and/or more than $32767?
• How do I make an "enemy-repelling" item?
• How do I make an NPC disappear after ending its plotscript by making it walk out of view?
• How do I make an NPC disappear when you talk to it but reappear when you leave and reenter the map?
• How do I make an NPC heal the hero?
• How do I make an NPC hurt the hero?
• How do I make an NPC look like it's jumping?
• How do I make an event happen when the player presses a key at a certain X and Y on a map?
• How do I make an item you have to be a certain level to use/equip?
• How do I make choices in a dialog box?
• How do I make emoticons?
• How do I make gradual fade in and fade out?
• How do I make heroes and npcs invisible?
• How do I make more than two choices in a text box using figures?
• How do I make my vehicle remember where I parked it?
• How do I make the screen scroll?
• How do I make the story continue after you die in battle?
• How do I misalign my NPCs and how can I take advantage ot it?
• How do I mix colors together?
• How do I prevent a dead hero from reviving at the Inn?
• How do I prevent a hero in the reserve party from appearing in the team menu?
• How do I prevent an NPC from wandering far away from its start location?
• How do I prevent my scripts from bugging?
• How do I prevent the player from popping up the menu?
• How do I prevent the screen from fading in too early?
• How do I read or write data in a saved game without loading that saved game?
• How do I rename heroes?
• How do I reset time?
• How do I restart my game after the player had lost?
• How do I restore my hero's stats during a plotscript?
• How do I run a plotscript after a battle?
• How do I run a plotscript before a battle?
• How do I script a wait that the player can skip by pressing a key?
• How do I start a cutscene after passing a door?
• How do I store several tags in a variable?
• How do I use plotscripts to make an NPC disappear permanently?
• How do I use scancodes?
• How do I write if statements with complex conditions (2 or 3 conditions)?
• How do I write strings?
• How does plotscripting work?
• How does script-debug mode work?
• How long is a game tick?
• HssEd

I

• I can't compile my script because it says that I haven't defined a standard command!
• I can't read the HSPEAK error screen!
• I don't get plotscripting at all, and the tutorial is still too confusing for me. Can anyone explain how to do it?
• I get an error message about illegal wait substate
• I have made a script library. Who shall I ask to put it online?
• I made an Item that is supposed to permanently alter stats, but every time I use a recovery item it gets undone, why?
• I need to rename heroes but I don't want the player to see (or notice) something on the screenplay. How should I proceed?
• I still get "Script error! Failed to unlump (scriptid).hsx"; I used the right format for more than one script in a file.
• I've got a message that says expected top level declaration but found "archinym.lmp" when I compile. What does that mean?
• If I put more than one plotscript into one file, how do I make only one at a time begin when I need it?
• If statement has 2 conditions. It should have only one. Use and and or for complex conditions
• In a plotscript, how does it know which NPC 2 to use, if there's a new list of NPCs for every map?
• Is it possible for the game to know if you ran from the last battle and do something about it?
• Is it possible to put two NPCs on the same X,Y position with Plotscripting?
• Is it possible to use Variables in place of (i.e., use them in the same fashion as) tags?
• Is there a limit to how big a plotscript can be?
• Is there a way to enable NPCs to walk through each other?

M

• Menu:Main Menu/Script Management
• My Script compiles, but I can't find the .HS file!

M cont.

• My scripts won't compile! Why?

N

• NPC references
• No data to compile

O

• Old Plotscripting Tutorial

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• Plot:(AMP)(AMP)
• Plot:(BAR)(BAR)
• Plot:(GT)(GT)
• Plot:(GT)=
• Plot:(LT)(GT)
• Plot:(LT)(LT)
• Plot:(LT)=
• Plot:==
• Plot:Add
• Plot:Add enemy to formation
• Plot:Add hero
• Plot:Add menu item
• Plot:Advance text box
• Plot:Allow minimap
• Plot:Allow save anywhere
• Plot:Alter NPC
• Plot:And
• Plot:Animation start tile
• Plot:Any key
• Plot:Append ascii
• Plot:Append number
• Plot:Ascii from string
• Plot:Autonumber
• Plot:Autosave
• Plot:Begin
• Plot:Boolean Constants
• Plot:Bottom menu
• Plot:Break
• Plot:Bring menu forward
• Plot:Camera follows NPC
• Plot:Camera follows hero
• Plot:Camera pixel X
• Plot:Camera pixel Y
• Plot:Can learn spell
• Plot:Cancel key
• Plot:Cancel map name display
• Plot:Case
• Plot:Center slice
• Plot:Center string at
• Plot:Change NPC ID
• Plot:Change tileset
• Plot:Check NPC wall
• Plot:Check equipment
• Plot:Check hero wall
• Plot:Check parentage
• Plot:Check tag
• Plot:Clamp slice
• Plot:Clear string
• Plot:Clone sprite
• Plot:Close menu
• Plot:Color Constants
• Plot:Color:blue
• Plot:Color:green
• Plot:Color:red
• Plot:Concatenate strings
• Plot:Continue
• Plot:Copy string
• Plot:Create NPC
• Plot:Create container
• Plot:Create menu
• Plot:Create rect
• Plot:Create text