Basic non monster npc mapping entitie.

by **Dr. Shadowborg** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:32 pm

Heh, didn't realize you were asking for help with this until I downloaded the file and tried it.

Anyhow, here's the source code with a compiled progs.dat to go with it. Just drop it right into your "base" folder that was contained in your original zip. I've done the best I can to properly comment the code in there so you can hopefully follow what I've done. (Also, a lot of the comments are just me being ass, disregard those / delete them, etc.)

Features:
* Use impulse 13 to interact. (I'm assuming this is your normal use key anyway)

* NPC will turn to face the player who's interacting with it. (Yes other players can steal his attention.)

* If you turn to not face him, aren't visible to him, or are outside of a radius of 120 units, he will quit interacting with you. (or if you press 1.)

Cons:
You will need to modify him a bit if you want him to do stuff like HL Scientists / Barneys. (follow you, fight monsters, etc.) 'course, this should go without saying.

Enjoy! :wink:

by **ceriux** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:55 pm

awesome thank you so much!

by **ceriux** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:00 am

iv noticed that the npc_use automatically calls menu 1
is there a way i can make it call self.menu == self.menu; ? because the way i was setting it up is i was going to make the menu different for each npc. that way i could just copy the exisiting npc code and modify the menu to match each npcs dialog. that way i could easily make some only say things others call a shop menu and others give out quests simply by calling a different menu depending on the npc?

edit : could i give each npc its own number like self.npc_num = 1 so in npc_use i could set it to self.menu == self.npc_num;
?

by **frag.machine** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:14 am

I'd suggest you to put all npc dialogs in a text file and use FRIK_FILE to read it. Much less code to keep and more flexible to add new quests, for example.

by **ceriux** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:42 am

i would, i dont know how to implement frikfile i wish that someone would make some kind of a small walkthrough or something on at least the basics of it.

by **Dr. Shadowborg** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:46 am

by **ceriux** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:37 am

by **ceriux** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:18 am

Basic non monster npc mapping entitie.

Basic non monster npc mapping entitie.

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