OpenBank(WhichBank: variant; ChangeCompass, ChangeAngle: Boolean): Boolean;

[NickMystre]

Could someone help me with understanding what these two arguments in the OpenBank function are for ...

1) ChangeCompass
2) ChangeAngle

They are both booleans.

I been staring at bank.simba for too long now, and to be honest - I'm just a little bit annoyed that I can't figure this out.

Put me out of my misery - please ? :)

[Kyle Undefined]

ChangeCompass will change the direction the compass is facing if you set it to True. ChangeAngle will move the angle up and down if you set it to True.

[NickMystre]

Thank you Kyle Undefined!

I feel even more challenged now. Looking at ChangeAngle I can now easily see what it does, as SetAngle(SRL_ANGLE_HIGH); is no mystery. :duh:

Does the ChangeCompass boolean introduce some randomness of camera orientation, or is it more to do with the way the referenced bank counters are aligned, and thus make for a more convenient perspective / viewing aspect ?

EDIT: I wish I hadn't asked now, as I feel I've lost a little kudos here. :( So there is such a thing as a dumb question. :)

[Kyle Undefined]

The way OpenBank works is by looping through all 4 of the bank opening functions until one works or none of them work. ChangeCompass is only used in OpenBankGlass and this is how it changes the compass:


if ChangeCompass then
begin
c := Random(2);
case WhichBank of
'feb', 'fwb', 'veb', 'ctb', 'clt', 'nab': if c = 0 then MakeCompass('N') else MakeCompass('S');
'akb', 'db', 'eb', 'vwb', 'sab', 'ynb', 'sgb', 'wgb', 'fgb': if c = 0 then MakeCompass('E') else MakeCompass('W');
'ngb': if c = 0 then MakeCompass(45) else MakeCompass(225);
end;
end;


So, depending on the bank that is passed in and the c variable that is randomized, it makes the compass angle optimized for that bank.

[NickMystre]

Again, much appreciated Kyle. Pouring over source code is pretty exhausting to begin with.

Already some things are not as daunting as at first - but it will take a while to be completely comfortable.

One step at a time!