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Re: Designing a flexible items system

Val — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:46:06 -0000

If you want to add more enums, you need to redefine the table using the MODIFY TABLE syntax.

Re: Designing a flexible items system

MrLollige — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:44:39 -0000

Enum looks good. But google cant tell me how to add a possible value.
For example, if I have a row:
type ENUM('Weapon','Armor','Usable'),
And I want to add 'Shines' and 'Tradeable' to it later on. How do I do that?

Re: Designing a flexible items system

bbgames — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:24:40 -0000

Hi Sunchaser,

There aren't really any plans on building a quest system or a map-based movement system - but I'll do my best to research it and write something on it once I've figured out how to build one.

sepp: using an enum for item type is a great idea - thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Designing a flexible items system

Sunchaser — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:39:26 -0000

Nice article...

Do you plan to write some articles on a quest system editable by users or a system where players can move in a map?

Re: Designing a flexible items system

sepp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:52:16 -0000

For item.type I would use an enum.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/enum.html