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PlayMaker Feedback => Action Requests => Topic started by: amaranth on March 29, 2012, 02:22:50 PM

Title: Conditional Statements
Post by: amaranth on March 29, 2012, 02:22:50 PM

When I got into making games, I started with RPG Maker XP. At the time, I didn't know what a finite-state machine was, but since working with playMaker, I now understand.

I see lots of similarities between the action system for playMaker and RPG Maker. In some ways, playMaker's system is more versatile, in some ways RPG Maker's system is more versatile. Coming from RPG Maker, there are a few things I think playMaker could implement to make it more versatile.

First, and most important on that list, is the ability to embed actions within conditional statements. In RPG Maker, this action was tremendously useful and I miss this very much in playMaker.

Here is an example usage of a conditional statement in RPG Maker. There are actually two here... a switch statement and an if/else statement.

(http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/yy94/agf8623/if-else-statements-rpg-maker.png)

In playMaker, if you want to use a conditional statement, you have a very small list of options. If embedding was implemented like above, I think this would allow endless possibilities for customization.

Title: Re: Conditional Statements
Post by: jeanfabre on March 30, 2012, 02:58:12 PM

Hi,

 If I Understand well, try with the following:

String switch action: https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W455 (https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W455)

Bye,

 Jean

Title: Re: Conditional Statements
Post by: justifun on March 30, 2012, 07:23:11 PM

Cool, the string switch action would go well with my custom "any key store result as string" custom action

http://hutonggames.com/playmakerforum/index.php?topic=487.0