Castle Paradox

[Quinn]

I am working on a fake battle script. What I need to do is show the battle backdrop as a map then have and NPC move back and fourth horizontally across the page at a fast speed until the player presses enter, after they do that the NPC must stop where it is and based on its position (the closer to the middle the better), give a stat bonus or decrease to the player and then start the battle. I've done most of it, all I need is how to get the NPCs position and based on that change the players stats so could someone please help me.
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[Flamer]

...i'd help... if i knew what you were asking... i mean, there's punctuation and all, but every idea is linked to another and just have clear indication on what you want help on.
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[Iblis]

[Battleblaze]

So it's like A timing thing... You could make an on keypress script where the NPC stops and moves up one. And where ever it moves up it will activate a special plotscript that increases/decreases the stat.
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[Iblis]

Why would it have to move up?
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[Me]

Okay, what I would do here would be have the NPC set to . . . about face, is it? The walking mode where they only turn around, whatever that's called. The map would have an on-keypress script that, when run, would switch the NPC's mode to "stand still" (command: alter NPC(who, npcstat:movetype,npcmovetype:standstill)). Then I would check the NPC's position using NPCx(who) (if the NPC is moving right-left) or NPCy(who) (if the NPC is moving up-down), and compare that number to the coordinate of the center point. The smaller the difference between the two, the larger the stat increase. Change the stat with set hero stat(who, stat, type).
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[Quinn]

This has helped but if I increase a stat how do I decrease the stat back to its original after the battle?
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[Flamer]

that's easily done, after reading what is wanted to be done...
use the center co-ordinate (x for horizontal and y for vertical, not both)
then minus it from the npc's co-ordinates and it'll have a negative value.
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(no offense to anyone that was mentioned)

[Me]

Or store the original stat in a global variable (or perhaps a local, depending on the situation), and just set the stat back to that after the battle.
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[TMC]

yes. And to calculate to increase/decrease to stats, use this formula:

stat change := abs (npc pixel x -- 160) * -1 + constant

at 'constant' pixels away from the center, theres no change. closer and theres an increase, further a decrease. Might want to square that whole expression for added effect.

(use the abs (absolute) function from FureWulffs 3rd party PS library, or code your own:

script, abs, num, begin
if (num >> 0) then (return (num * -1)) else (return (num))
end
)
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[Aethereal]

Shouldn't that be:

if (num >> 0) then (return (num)) else (return (num * -1)) ?
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