Castle Paradox

Alphazero15 · Guest

There's a crazy hyper little NPC I want to say random stuff each time you talk to him, but I want it to go through a cycle of 10 or so phrases. For example, you talk to him once he says "corn!", the next time he says "baseball!", then "frogs!", and then back to "corn!" How would I do that?

Pepsi Ranger · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:51 am Post subject:

Create a global variable. Call it "hyperkid" or something you'll remember.

Set it to a plotscript that increments by 1 for every time the player talks to him.

Set a conditional that checks for whenever the variable "hyperkid" reaches 10. When it hits ten, reset the variable to 0.

Have each number 0-9 represent another text box.

If you want it simplified, change the first global to the number of the first textbox in the queue.

So, it could look like this (I write in old style, so you'll want to make your syntax adjustments if you write in new style):

Alphazero15 · Guest

Yeah, I'm really new to this and am not sure how to do that... if someone could explain it step by step that would be great. But if not, I'm sure I could poke around and figure it out somehow.

TMC · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:59 am Post subject:

OK, here's a modified version of one of Pepsi's scripts to make it even easier: a complete script file that can be compiled as it is. You only need to change "1234" to the number of the first textbox. It assumes all the other textboxes follow after it. (If you need more flexibility, use Pepsi's second script.) "10" is the number of textboxes.

For a tutorial on compiling, importing, and attaching scripts to NPCs, see the 'Plotscripting Tutorial'. You can obviously skip all the parts about writing scripts if you don't want to learn (skip the "Your First script" section).