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Disabling default hints - Your Computer - 07-28-2011
Being that a custom story is normally (i would assume) played after playing the main story, there is less of a need to inform the user of all possible interactions that the game allows, or that their sanity will drain while in the dark or after experiencing paranormal events, et cetera. I am finding that these hints are taking away the immersion, as i am many times forcing the user to look at other things, only to have the hint show up at that point in time.
I am wondering if anyone knows how to disable these hints. Or perhaps if they happen to know the "name" i can pass to BlockHint(). Or maybe there is a global or local variable i can set that will disable the default hints for the current map?
RE: Disabling default hints - convolution223 - 07-28-2011
I also want to know how to do this. i'm subscribing to this thread
kinda surprised this hasn't been talked about much.
RE: Disabling default hints - Your Computer - 07-28-2011
Never mind, i figured it out. I checked one of the main story's saved files and found a list of hint names that were valid.
Code:
<container type="100" name="mlstHintsGiven" class_type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData">
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="DarknessDecrease" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EnemySeen" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EnemyTip01" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EnemyTip02" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EntityGrab" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EntityLever" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EntityPush" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EntitySlide" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EntitySwingDoor" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="EntityWheel" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="LanternNoItem" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="PickHealthPotion" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="PickLantern" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="PickOil" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="PickTinderbox" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="PushHint" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="QuestAdded" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="RecentlyReadText" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="SanityHit" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="SanityLow" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="hidehint" />
</class>
<class type="cLuxHintHandler_Hint_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="run" />
</class>
</container>The valid names are the whatever the value for "val" is.
RE: Disabling default hints - convolution223 - 07-28-2011
So are you going in and individually blocking each hint that appears in your custom story?
and thanks for posting this!
RE: Disabling default hints - Your Computer - 07-28-2011
(07-28-2011, 08:42 AM)convolution223 Wrote: So are you going in and individually blocking each hint that appears in your custom story?Pretty much, yeah.
Here's the function i put together that disables all hints that would have pretty much activated in my first level on start:
Code:
void BlockDefaultHints()
{
BlockHint("DarknessDecrease");
BlockHint("EntityGrab");
BlockHint("EntityLever");
BlockHint("EntityPush");
BlockHint("EntitySlide");
BlockHint("EntitySwingDoor");
BlockHint("EntityWheel");
BlockHint("PickLantern");
BlockHint("PickOil");
BlockHint("PickTinderbox");
BlockHint("SanityHit");
BlockHint("SanityLow");
}RE: Disabling default hints - convolution223 - 07-29-2011
Thank you! this totally solves the problem!
RE: Disabling default hints - Lagoz - 12-07-2011
void BlockDefaultHint()
{
BlockHint("DarknessDecrease");
BlockHint("EntityGrab");
BlockHint("EntityLever");
BlockHint("EntityPush");
BlockHint("EntitySlide");
BlockHint("EntitySwingDoor");
BlockHint("EntityWheel");
BlockHint("PickLantern");
BlockHint("PickOil");
BlockHint("PickTinderbox");
BlockHint("SanityHit");
BlockHint("SanityLow");
}
That should work? but it doesnt :p so what am i doing wrong
RE: Disabling default hints - palistov - 12-08-2011
You can also open up base_english.lang and look for the hint names there.
RE: Disabling default hints - Your Computer - 12-08-2011
(12-07-2011, 06:19 PM)Lagoz Wrote: That should work? but it doesnt :p so what am i doing wrong
Defining the function is one thing, calling it is another.