I did not think this would work!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I have code that lets you reload a gun in combat. By default, the game says

N)ew magazine

Well, that doesn't work when the weapon is a shotgun. I have a shotgun_type defined, so I was going to have the game say

N)ew round of shells

When the weapon to be reloaded was a shotgun. Except that the bean bag gun shoots bean bags, but it has shotgun_type

I ended up trying this, which I did not think would work:

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	if ItemsArray[fighter.equippedWeapon] is shotgun_type
	{
		"N)ew round of ";
		print ItemsArray[fighter.equippedWeapon].ammo_type.name
	}

I didn't think you could reference the name of the ammo_type like that. For some reason, I thought that Hugo would stop you once you had, essentially, "the first dot." But it didn't!

So that is cool and made me happy.

[Roody_Yogurt]

Yeah, this can be pretty useful. I usually add parentheses, though, just in case I'm grouping the properties in an order that the engine doesn't expect:

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print (ItemsArray[fighter.equippedWeapon].ammo_type).name