I'm trying to set up a compound verb to "ask <someone> to <do something>"

I really want to be able to ask different people to dance, so this is what I do...

command <Ask #@AskTarget# to #@AskRequest#;Ask #@AskTarget#> msg <Asking #@AskTarget# to #@AskRequest#>


I added the Ask #@AskTarget# command to the end there to see if I could get into this command at all.

Whenever I type ask Mary to dance I get "I can't see that anywhere"

When I type ask mary
I at least get "Asking Mary to "

I'm just trying to get these basics down so I can really get cooking with game development. Thanks for the help everyone!

-radar

In your code you have #@AskRequest# as an object variable, but “dance” is not an object. So when you type “Ask Mary to dance”, Quest finds the object “Mary” and then looks for the object “dance” and doesn’t find it and you get the message “I can't see that anywhere”. It would work if you use a text variable instead, like this:

command <Ask #@AskTarget# to #AskRequest#> msg <Asking #@AskTarget# to #AskRequest#>

Mman wrote:In your code you have #@AskRequest# as an object variable, but “dance” is not an object. So when you type “Ask Mary to dance”, Quest finds the object “Mary” and then looks for the object “dance” and doesn’t find it and you get the message “I can't see that anywhere”. It would work if you use a text variable instead, like this:

command <Ask #@AskTarget# to #AskRequest#> msg <Asking #@AskTarget# to #AskRequest#>

At last the subtlety between #@# and ## is realised!

Thanks for the help!
-Radar