Parallaction/Scripts

Location (LOC) scripts specification

Level-0 simple statements:

DISK	Selects data file containing resources for this location (it used to ask the user to switch floppy in the original games). This statement appears any other resource specification.
LOCATION	Specifies location name and selects background bitmap and depth mask. It is not necessary for this statement to be the first one in the script.
LOCAFLAGS	Declares custom flags for the current location: the default value is *clear*. The flags values are retained across savegames and location switches.
FLAGS	Sets flags declared in LOCALFLAGS.
SOUND	Specifies sound effect to be looped (as it was background music).
MUSIC	Specifies background music.
ENDLOCATION	Tells the parser there is nothing more to read in this location script.

Level-0 block statements (with brief description):

ZONE	Declares interactive screen area.
ANIMATION	Declares visible animation.
COMMENT	Defines text to be displayed in a balloon when the location is accessed for the first time.
ENDCOMMENT	Special text displayed on end game. There is only one instance in the last location for Nippon Safes.
NODES	Defines points to be used as aid when computing walk paths.
COMMANDS	Defines a list of commands to be executed before COMMENT text -if any- is displayed.
ACOMMANDS	Defines a list of commands to be executed after COMMENT text -if any- is displayed.