Castle Paradox

[bis_senchi]

I would like that when you press the d key and when you are near a npc the npc says something (as if we had press the space bar)

To do so, I would need the following scripts

[msw188]

There is a command called "NPC at spot(x,y)" that you will want to use. Then in your keypress script, it would look like more or less like this:

[TMC]

I don't think that's what was intended, or attaching textboxes to the npcs would have worked.

Use a script like this to find the Manhattan distance between to points.

[msw188]

I think the problem was that he wanted to trigger something different out of the NPC by using the 'd' key rather than the space bar. But a generalized 'Manhatten' distance script is nice to have. Hamsterspeak doesn't have absolute value itself? I think that this ought to be included in plotscr and so put into the plotscripting library; sure its simple, but that's not a good reason not to have it there.
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[TMC]

Would be best to make it builtin for speed.

This is my favourite absolute script, though it's probably not as fast:

[bis_senchi]

I've made some tests with msw188's script and it didn't work. Here are my scripts. Anyone see something wrong? (Bad use of the suspend commands may be...)

[msw188]

You're not grasping the directional thing. The Xcheck and Ycheck should be slightly different for each direction, indicating which way the player is facing: (this is pseudocode, really)

[TwinHamster]

Why bother going into if/then commands?

I'm sure that this little tidbit of code would suffice:

[Moogle1]

No, msw is right. Otherwise, you're trying to activate the NPC where you're standing. You want the one that's in front of you.
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[TwinHamster]

[TMC]

Why are you using suspend player/npcs? Those statements aren't doing anything. If you want all npcs to stand still while a textbox is shown, use this instead:

[bis_senchi]

I've include the following lines in my code but when I made tests, hspeak.exe says that there is an error because condition are always true or false.

Any suggestion to get rid of this error?

[Camdog]

You've gotten rid of the "MyDirect ==" in your if statements. Since the directions are simply constants, they always evaluate the same way, hence your error. You should write:

[TMC]

[msw188]

Oh, look who's getting all fancy with the new toys!

Seriously, I forgot about the new switch command. That is a lot cleaner than mine, I guess this is exactly the kind of stuff that a switch command is made for. As for the commas, I seem to remember seeing somewhere a hamsterspeak syntax document that claimed the commas were needed after your conditions in all flow commands, but this was a good while ago, and its possible I just misinterpreted what the document was saying. But that is how I've done it ever since (and that was when I first began using the OHR, when I read pretty much the entire old FAQ and tutorials before even downloading the thing, somewhere over six years ago).

To bis senchi:
The Mad Cacti's script should take care of all my 'if then' junk, and then all you should have to do is have your own series of 'if' checks to see which NPC is at spot (Xcheck,Ycheck). Or maybe that could be accomplished with a switch statement, too? Something like: