crazytechnokid Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Alright, so i'm pretty new to scripting in fallout 3, i have previous programming experience and i've looked at most all tutorials on scripting i can find but i have this one question. As of this moment i'm working on making a simple ammo vending machine, you interact with the machine, and then a menu come up asking you what type of ammo you wish to purchase, now how do i make it so that when you click on an option a box/form appears that allows the player to enter a numerical value? and then make that value usable in a script so i can add that amount of said item/ammunition to the players inventory? Thank you in advance for any help.
pkleiss Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 As far as I know, you can't get the game to read numeric entries. You could make a convoluted menu system where you select each digit to form a number, but realistically, you are better off having a sub menu system with a preset number of rounds. Like the first menu lets you select the ammo type and the sub-menu lets you pick from 10, 25, 50 or 100 rounds or the like.
crazytechnokid Posted July 13, 2010 Author Posted July 13, 2010 Oh alright, and good idea with the sub-menu thing, i think i'm going to use that xD, thanks again.
pkleiss Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Cipscis has a turorial on making sub-menus if you run into troubles.
HugePinball Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 You could create new UI elements that allow the user to adjust and choose a value with a slider, arrows, or other controls, like DarN has done, but that's not a project I'd recommend even an experienced modder taking on lightly. Even through that process, there's no kind of text entry method. Unfortunately, the only alternative is what pkleiss has suggested - a MessageBox menu where you give the user some pre-defined options to choose.
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