3 slot inventory

[mr_starfire]

Hi guys i want to create a small inventory with only 3 slots will i still need to use arrays to do this ?

 

[zendraw]

well what are you gona put in that inventory, how will you use it. anything is possible there is no universal law that inventorys are made with arrays.

 

[Salvakiya]

you do not need an array to make any kind of inventory. its just the easy/convenient way to do it. you could easily just use 3 variables.

slot0 = noone;
slot1 = noone;
slot2 = noone;

however that means you have to program behavior for each slot. That is unless you had an inventory slot object which you tied to each variable. it just over complicated things. besides it does not look much different from

slot[0] = noone;
slot[1] = noone;
slot[2] = noone;

 

[mr_starfire]

yh i guess you are right my inventory is going to be very similar to a inventory in a game called dizzy from the 80s

<<holy hell i loved this game as a kid>>

i want the same mechanic as the inventory shown where as the item in the first slot gets moved up by one slot every time the player attempts to pick something up and if its in the final slot when the attempt is made that item gets dropped

 

[zendraw]

well just make it an array and when you pick up do somthing like this

if item[2]>0 instance_create(x, y, item[2])
item[1]=item[2]
item[0]=item[1]
other=item[0] //other is the object you are picking

the code most likely wont look like this but you get the idea.

 

[mr_starfire]

im trying multiple options at the moment this one being one of them thanks ill keep you posted and thanks again