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Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:30 am Post subject: respawning npcs

after you use npcs and set it to use only once, is there any way to make them respawn, or come back after you leave the map and reenter?

Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:43 am Post subject:

You would have to turn off their one-time use only tag via a script, but there was some discussion about changing these tags' numbering eventually, so my suggestion would be, rather than make the NPC one-time usable, make it call a script that does everything you want it to do and then destroy itself via the 'delete npc' command. NPCs removed in this way reappear when the map is re-entered.

If you want conditions on when the NPC should reappear or not, you should give it a 'appear if' tag of your own and write your scripts accordingly.

Does this all make sense?

Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

yea ill try it

binoal · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:32 pm Post subject:

im not 100% sure if this would work, but you could make a script, and say you have it set to use once and the tag is 1012, you could put set tag (1012,off)
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

Manipulating one-time-use tags is generally a bad idea. It will actually work, but could stop working in future versions if we change the way one-time-use NPCs work.

If you want to make an NPC vanish until the map gets reloaded, you can use a very simple script:

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Ronin Catholic · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject:

A Superman reference and a Sailor Moon reference in the same sentence? That's just weird.

Anyway, I was just recently wonding how to do this (to make Mystic Quest style non-random enemies).
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject:

Bizarro was definitely intended as a Superman reference. Negaverse was a Shael Riley reference :)

When I was about 4 years old, there was this fat guy with a bushy beard who lived directly across the street from my family's house. Sometimes I would be sitting looking out the screen door, and I would see him walk outside of his house wearing an Adam-West-style Batman costume. He would climb up into his offroad pickup truck, and drive away. This wasn't just around Halloween. He would do it other times too.

I was pretty sure that he was Bizzaro-Batman, and that his pickup truck was the Bizzaro-Batmobile.

It was cool to live across the street from a superhero, even if he did happen to be an evil alternate universe one.

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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: