[RunUO 2.0 RC1] Journey Books

[mordero]

A book that will write in itself and a paired book (called its twin). So whatever is written in one will overwrite what is written in the other. Got this idea from the Sword of Truth series, sadly its impossible to update the book in real time to watch the other person write, but oh well.

Example:
Open Book A -> Type "Hello, Im mordero." -> Close Book A
Open Book B -> Now Contains "Hello, Im mordero." -> Type "Why, hello" ->Close Book B
Open Book A -> Now Contains "Hello, Im mordero. Why, hello"

To install:
Just drag this into your custom script folder AND add

set { m_Pages = Pages; }

to public BookPageInfo[] Pages in the BaseBook class in BaseBook.cs, so it will look like this:

public BookPageInfo[] Pages
{
get { return m_Pages; }
//edited
set { m_Pages = value; }
}

If I ever figure out a way to update a book without this edit, Ill fix this, but I spend a couple hours trying and couldnt come up with anything.


To add ingame:
[add JourneyBook <-creates one Journey Book, its twin will have to be set manually
[add JourneyBookSetDeed <-creates a deed that will create a Journey Book set containing two books that are paired.

Editable Properties:

• Twin - its paired JourneyBook that it will write to

This can be changed by a [props in game. If the book doesnt have a mate, it will tell the player.

Just like with my Transfer Chests, I did what testing I could, but its been limited since its just me. Also if you change anything in the code, DO NOT change anything dealing with Initialization, or within the #region FromBaseBook tags in the OnContentChange method, since this overrides the normal handling of book editing and could cause your books to stop working if changed. If you have any questions/bugs/concerns, just post.

I cant think of reason why this wouldnt work with 1.0 (at least from the Generics point of view), but I didnt test it with it.

Hope you like it

Update: Grrr, a problem registering the packet handler when the server reloads , fixed it though

[HellRazor]

That's a pretty neat idea!

[kejamimi]

Very cool idea! Sword of Truth is my very favorite series! A great way to leave messages for friends!

Thanks for submitting this.

[Nott32]

Great Idea im trying it now :-)

[Lord_Greywolf]

finally had some players get a pair of thses in game

and after the next restart, they both said twin was null

they wee made using the deed, and when 1st made do have the twins marked correctly
and it looks like the script is serialized correctly

so i am lost as to how they could get set to null

any clue?

[Tru]

Cool, original (UO) Idea ++Karma

[Lokai]

I came up with a pair of books that are linked and do not require base file edits. If you are interested I will post them here.

[Tru]

Originally Posted by Lokai

I came up with a pair of books that are linked and do not require base file edits. If you are interested I will post them here.

I'd be interested in seeing it...

[Lokai]

Originally Posted by Tru

I'd be interested in seeing it...

No problem. I just posted it:

Linked Books, Linked Bags, oh my!

It was sufficiently different that it warranted a new post. Also, I couldn't resist adding my bag of linked bags too.

[Lord_Greywolf]

I am still having the problem that every restart that the books do not stay linked to each other

and ideas on the fix for this?