Item Turn-In or Items as "currency" tutorial?

[dakota49]

I was really hoping one of you guys could help me with this question.

In my game, there is an area where the main character needs to collect feathers from monsters in order to buy certain items. For example...

Vision Shield: 15 Eagle Feathers
Sturdy Spear: 10 Eagle Feathers
...etc.

I want the feathers to come from dead monsters only. I could make it so that feathers are "found" and that when it is picked up I can make the switch add the variable +1. However, I don't want to do that. I want them to come off monsters only. If I do that, I can't make the +1 variable option. (I might be able to but I don't know how)

How do I make it so the following happens:
Character has collected 10 feathers and is going to buy the spear. however he cannot be allowed to buy the Shield. How do I make common items act as "currency" in certain situations.

I assume it would have to be each feather is a +1 to a variable and that a fork condition would say whether a character would have enough feathers to buy a particular item, however, I can't increase variables on an item if they fall off monsters.

Maybe I'm just missing a step and I would appreciate any input from you guys. Thank you for help with this.

[Prpl_Mage]

Have you tried to just set the variable equal to number of "Feathers" in the party?.
Variable Operations.

Well, conditional branches are the way to go here. Since the maker itself doesn't have a command for "number of items held" you more or less have to make the variable equal to the number.

Now add a page to the shopper(trader whatever since I don't know if it would work with the ordinary shop window) where you add a label firstly and then a conditional branch "Variable: 'Feathers held' is equal to or greater than 5" if you chose one of the items.
Just make the "Else Handler" make the merchant say something like "I'm sorry but no feathers; no deal" and then jump back to the label.

Not sure if this helps though, Perhaps I didn't read your post good enough.

[dakota49]

I'll definitely try your suggestion out. I appreciate your response to this. :-D Thanks for the help.

UPDATE:
I tried your suggestion and it worked perfectly!! Thanks again!

[Prpl_Mage]

That's good to hear. You'll be amazed by all the stuff you learn after making a couple of features like this...
Like back in the old days when I couldn't make anything myself.... And here I am seeing everything pretty obvious.

Oh well, I guess you know that I don't need any credit for this. The praises are all I need.