[TUTORIAL] Defining Definitions

Lord Melchior · Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:46 pm

RPG Maker Tutorial

Topic: Defining Definitions
Creator: Melchior M. Philips
Version: VX/XP
Coding: Yes
Difficulty: Intermediate

Having a hard time coding in Ruby?
have know idea HOW to code in Ruby?
Well, here's a little basic thing in Ruby Coding: definitions.

As you scroll trough the script editor, you'll notice that it uses alot of definitions.
So how do you define one?

Well, Defining a definition is not much harder than defining a word. In your avarage dictionary, Words are defined using the following Pattern:

Quote:

Word(pronounciation), (verb/noun/whatever), ~(multiple).
1. Definition one.
2. Definition two.
Sayings with the word in it.

Obviously, definitions don't need pronounciations or Multiples(well, not in this tut). Most definitions also have only one definition, and definitions are defined for later use in coding, therefore it doesn't need the saying either.
what it does need however, is an end, so that the code can see you stopped defining this particular definition. to do this, we simply add "end" at the bottom.
now we have this:

Quote:

(Word)
(definition)
end

not too hard is it? well, we're not done yet.
To make sure the code know we're defining a definition, we have to add "def (definition)" at the beginning.
For tutorial purposes, we want this string to display the Hero's name, so let's just call our definition "HeroName".

Quote:

def HeroName
(definition)
end

now for the actual defining of the definition.
if you want it to display the hero's name, simply put "return $data_system.hero.hero0001.name"
so the end result should be:

Quote:

def HeroName
return $data_system.hero.hero0001.name
end

$data_system means that it is a term pre-defined in the database.
.hero means it's in the hero tab.
.hero0001 means it's referring to the first hero
.name returns it's name.
so basically it's:

Quote:

Define: "HeroName"
Definition: the name of the first hero mentioned in the hero tab of the database.
end of definiton

I hope this helped you make sense of definitions.
- Melchior M. "Undefined" Philips

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