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Arrrgh. Okay, can anybody tell me why my script that checks to see what you hit something with doesn't work?

It's called from other scripts like this...

void hit
{
external("hitcheck", "main")
if (&hitcheck == 1)
{
//hit text for fists
}

if (&hitcheck == 2)
{
//hit text for weapon 2
}

if (&hitcheck == 10)
{
//hit text for fireball
}

&hitcheck is a global I declared explicitly for this. I was using &jugb, but when it didn't work I tried giving it its own var to see if that fixed it. It didn't.

Here's the hitchecker script itself:

//hitcheck.c
void main
if (&missle_source == 1)
{
weapon()
}
else
{
//Okay, you threw SOMETHING at it
magic()
}
}

void weapon
{
&jugc = compare_weapon("item-fst")
if (&jugc == 1)
{
&hitcheck = 1
//1 then we know it's fist
return
}

&jugc = compare_weapon("item-swl")
//yes, this IS what I named my sword script
if (&jugc == 1)
{
&hitcheck = 2
//2 = sword 1
return
}

//more weapons to add here later
}

void magic
{
&jugc = compare_magic("item-fb")
if (&jugc == 1)
{
&hitcheck = 10
//10 is fireball
return
}
//more magic to add here later, I'll also check for the throwing axe
}

Sometimes it'll work, usually it won't. It'll read the sword as the fists for some absolutely unfathomable reason. I am banging my face into the keyboard over this.

Oh, and if you're wondering why I used compare_magic to see if you have the fireball equipped rather than looking for dam_fire, I tried that and it absolutely never worked, whereas I've had this method work for the fireball sometimes, despite it never once working for the sword. I have NO IDEA. I had a script's hit procedure just have Dink say "&hitcheck", and the fists and the fireball produce the expected values, but the sword gives whatever the value already was. Help?

Edit: Hell, I just noticed a missing equals sign in the sword check. How did I miss that the last five times I went over this? Ugh.

With that and a couple of changes to the calling scripts, I seem to have gotten this working properly. Sorry for bringing it up.