Infoportions
Pieces of information (strings) storing player's (or game) progress, achievements and game stats. Used to identify if player performed some action (touched some trigger, killed monster, activated batmark, checked out monologue mark etc.).
Example player infoportions array:
comment_sun // sun monologue (in the light of the sun i have no comfort...) was executed comment_rain // rain monologue was executed w1m3_crypt1button_p // button 1 was pressed in light crypt
Infoportions could be local or global. Local infoportions belongs to player/npc, while global belongs to game and being active on all players.
As all infoportions share same name space, there is some standarts of naming to get rid of collisions.
- Inventory-related infoportions are prefixed by "inv_"
- Level-related and level-interaction infoportions set by level designer are prefixed by the worldnum and mapnum they are targeted to (w1m1_, w1m4_ etc.)
- Kain's eventual comments (snow, rain etc.) are prefixed by "comment_".
- Global infoportions always prefixed by #
Infoportions can have values attached.
Usage
For level designer, generic way to access infoportions is Trigger event and Pattern script. Trigger event allows to add new infoportions or values (in the form of counters). Pattern scripts allows to check for any infoportions (including gamecode-related, such as gamestats).
To make life easier, it is useful to name all infoportions using this rule:
mapname_objectname_eventhappened
Typical mapnames:
- w1m1
- w1m2
- etc
Typical objectnames:
- button1
- secretbutton
- barkeep
- brigands
- etc.
Typical events:
- k - killed
- a - activated
- p - pressed
- o - opened
- c - closed
- etc.
Typical usage on infoportions for level design:
- When having same NPC in two maps (like barkeep in Ziegsturhl tavern), when one is killed, another should be removed too.
- Open doors, activate stuff in another levels.
- Spawn more enemies when kain kills someone.
