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is there a way to force dink to arm a weapon, such as his fists after the current item he is using is killed

example...when dink uses an elixer nothing is armed anymore, i want it so he automatically arms his fists after it is killed

Maybe in the holdingdrop procedure of each weapon?

so what lines would i use? i know to use
arm_weapon();
but not sure how to specify which slot or item

Aha. I looked in start-1.c (which automatically adds and arms the first) to see that &cur_weapon specifies the weapon slot.

So you'd just do something like this:

&cur_weapon = 1;
arm_weapon();

&cur_weapon = 1;
arm_weapon();

assuming that the fists are in the first slot. There's a 1.08 function that gets the slot of a given item script;

In 1.08, use:

&cur_weapon = get_item("item-fst");
arm_weapon();

EDIT: Blah, redink1 was first...

blah, doesn't work... here's what i have...

void holdingdrop( void )
{
&cur_weapon = 1;
arm_weapon();
}

add: i played around with it a bit added
&update_status = 1;
draw_status();
to it, but still no changes. same thing happens, you use the item, the icon stays there and you've got nothing equipped

I remember something like that happening in a Dmod, but which one? Can't remember.

Try adding a 'say' line to see if holdingdrop is actually being called.

i tested it, it's being called.

add: something wierd...i took out arm_weapon(); just to see what would happen, and the fist graphic goes into the weapon slot, but still not armed...

more playing around with it...i made a key script...

void main ( void )
{
&cur_weapon = 1;
arm_weapon();
&update_status = 1;
draw_status();
kill_this_task();
}

and tested it. it works, it arms the fists. so i made it spawn in the holdingdrop command. the fist item graphic displays, but still no item is armed.

In your spawned script, try adding wait(1); before anything.

well, what do ya know, it works now. thanks a bunch. so you have to spawn an extra script, who cares maybe there's a way i can implement it into the script that give the potion it's effect.

add: got everything working o.k. now, wierd how it won't work in the holdingdrop procedure though