SRL Archive - OSR Help

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum and have just started learning the basics to script with Simba. At the moment however I'm struggling to find any info on the best method to check that the player is in the correct location.

The location I want to check for has a few non interactive objects like ferns which could be used to determine the location, as long as the compass and angle are set correctly. I'm sure its relatively easy to do this by checking for a bitmap in the relevant location, I'm just wondering if this is in fact the best way to do this check.

Any feedback would be much appreciated, I'm looking forward to learning more :D

Thanks,

Willy Jenkins.

There really is not "best" way when it comes to checking if you are at the good position or not, because it greatly depends that where you are.

If the area you should be in(and you don't have to tell accurately where you are) has much of a certain color on the mm then just do a CountColor on the mm.

DTMs, DDTMs, ObjectDTMs are all good for accurate position check if you do it right.

You can also(it seems you are trying this?) use the main screen if the location has unique objects/colors in general there. Use TPAs in that case then you can do distance/length/whatever checks on them.

There are a dozen more method which will be told by others(hopefully), but these are that comes to my mind right now.

tl;dr: Be creative :p.

Thanks for your reply Sabzi.

I started looking at using DTMs, at first I decided to make a DTM of the main game screen however when I search for the DTM using FindDTM() it always returns false. I then tried making a DTM of the minimap which also just returns false everytime.

I've followed a few tutorials, they seem to generally be for walking however, am I doing the right thing to just check the location and return true or false?

if FindDTM(ChinAreaDTM, x, y, MMX1, MMY1, MMX2, MMY2) Then
Result := True
else
Result := False;

Thats the code I used to check for the DTM on the minimap.

Cheers.

From: WillyJenkins
Thanks for your reply Sabzi.

I started looking at using DTMs, at first I decided to make a DTM of the main game screen however when I search for the DTM using FindDTM() it always returns false. I then tried making a DTM of the minimap which also just returns false everytime.

I've followed a few tutorials, they seem to generally be for walking however, am I doing the right thing to just check the location and return true or false?



Thats the code I used to check for the DTM on the minimap.

Cheers.

U should use DTMRotated.

From: NexPB
U should use DTMRotated.

What he says.

Reason: Your minimap(mm) is always rotating a bit randomly(thanks to jagex), so you have to use DTMRotated or FindDTMRotated so the same dtm will be searched at different angles.
Making a good DTM is not that easy, but there are great tutorials about them.

I actually did try rotated aswell, but it didnt work.

However when I changed and used DDTM instead and put the tolerance up a bit, it seems to find it correctly, then return false when its not there. I'll use FindDTMRotated though, I didn't realise Jagex randomly rotates stuff, good to know!

Also is there a general amount of rotation you would normally use? Would you make it check all 360 degrees of rotation, or just a few degrees either side of the current DTMs rotation?

Thanks for the help guys.

From: WillyJenkins
I actually did try rotated aswell, but it didnt work.

However when I changed and used DDTM instead and put the tolerance up a bit, it seems to find it correctly, then return false when its not there. I'll use FindDTMRotated though, I didn't realise Jagex randomly rotates stuff, good to know!

Also is there a general amount of rotation you would normally use? Would you make it check all 360 degrees of rotation, or just a few degrees either side of the current DTMs rotation?

Thanks for the help guys.

If I'm not wrong DTMRotated will rotate until it found the dtm and FindDTMRotated will search in the angle you have given up.

Could you post a minimap pic of the area? I'm f2p only and unfamiliar with it :P. If there are any trees (alive or dead), ladders, or rocks or anything like that on the minimap you could definitely use objDTM, I use it for my location finding and relocation in my crafting guild miner.
Example code:

Procedure RelocateToCenter;
begin
if ObjDTMWalk('585:65:4:1:7:635:76:1:7:643:102:1:7:639:56:1:7:659:90', 0, 100, 80, True) then
    begin
      wait(500 + random(250));
      MakeCompass('n');
      WriteLn('location is now guild centre');
      RestUntil(RandomRange(90,100));
      //RestUp;
    end
  else
    begin
      WriteLn('could not relocate to centre');
      Terminator;
    end;
end;