posted 02-18- 09:27 PM CT (US)            

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What is causing me trouble now is switching the mouse pointer in the middle of the game. I attached the following to a base script for the room I want the pointer to change in:
void main(void)
{
sp_base_walk(1, 200); //the new sprite
//not sure how to adjust these next commands,
sp_base_attack(1, 100);
sp_dir(1, 8);
sp_brain(1, 1);
sp_que(1, 0);
sp_noclip(1, 0);

//lets give this new sprite hellfire to start out with, and arm it.
add_item("item-sfb", 70, 1);
&cur_weapon = 1;
arm_weapon();
}
This does not work, although it does work alright when I place these commands into start1.c Even when I put this in start1.c, the mouse pointer only looks like the new sprite when it is moving (because I only changed the base walk), and I'm not sure how to change the appearance of the script when it is standing still. Any help with either of these would be appreciated, thanks.

posted 02-19- 02:57 PM CT (US)            

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I attached this script into a sprite, and it works to switch the control from normal dink into a mouse pointer. It also creates a Dink sprite (&dinktry) that is in the same position but not controlled directly with the mouse. It looks like the mouse pointer just appears, although the dink sometimes jumps a little when it switches. &dinktry is a global variable.

void talk(void)
{
//saving dink's current location so I can put the new dink sprite there
int &xloc = sp_x(1,-1);
int &yloc = sp_y(1,-1);

//changing dink to the mouse
sp_seq(1, 0);
sp_brain(1, 13);
sp_que(1,20000);
sp_noclip(1, 1);
sp_base_walk(1, 0);
sp_base_attack(1, 0);
sp_nohit(1,1);

//these two commands are the ones that change the base sprite
sp_pseq(1,10);
sp_pframe(1,8);

//creating the dink sprite
&dinktry = create_sprite(&xloc,&yloc,1,12,1);
sp_base_walk(&dinktry, 70);
sp_base_attack(&dinktry, 100);
sp_speed(&dinktry, 2);
sp_timing(&dinktry, 33);
sp_base_idle(&dinktry, 522);
}