Castle Paradox

[Bobert-Rob]

Okay, a new question. Lets say I have enemies (NPCs) on the map and they cause a fight to happen when you talk to them. They're in the way, you have to fight them. Well, once the battle is won, a script is called and the NPC is teleported to a position on the map where they can't be accessed by the hero anymore (1,1), effectively making them 'vanish'.

My problem is I'm not sure of how to target the enemy NPC. One way of doing it is to use NPC at spot and, depending on what way the hero is facing, the NPC right in front of the hero will be the one that vanishes. In fact, that's what I'm doing now, and it SORT OF works. But what if the enemy NPC is moving? If they're moving and you trigger the script, they're suddenly out of range. Or if the enemy NPC is pushable, they're now one space ahead.

So I was wondering if there was a way to target the NPC that calls the script from inside the script? That way, all I would have to do is reference whoever called the script and make that NPC disappear. Would this be possible, or am I just going to have to figure out some other method of doing this? The 'only once' setting on NPCs effect each one, not just the individual copy. Individual copy targeting would be key.

...almost makes one wish the 'only once' setting were an array so it could effect the individual copy.

[Rimudora]

Whenever you have an npc run a script, it returns two variables. The first is something you can set inside custom through 'edit npcs...'. The second one is a reference to the npc that called the script. So you could do something like this:

[Bobert-Rob]

Hey, that actually works! Glad it actually turned out to be pretty simple. I'll have to keep this in mind, thanks!

[TMC]

There is also a "delete NPC" command that sounds like it would be identical to moving the NPC off the screen, for your purposes.

And, I've come to realise that we really need to mention the script arguments inside Custom.
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