Castle Paradox

[iamben]

i have two guards. i want to make them walk. they are both NPC #2, copies 0 and 1. here is my defective script:

[djfenix]

I'm not a great scripter, but my guess is in the wait commands.

Because you're telling the script to "wait for guard A" or whatever, the script will only proceed when Guard A finishes moving.

[iamben]

i was thinking the same thing. but how do i get them to move simultaneously? it would be easier if they were moving the same distance.

[Moogle1]

This is significantly easier with the plotscripting syntax in the nightlies, where you can use timers to automate this kind of thing. I'm not certain on the syntax, so here's Ysoft or TMC to tell you how you'd do it.
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[msw188]

If you are willing to give up the standing and looking around, this is easy with the pace NPC movement type in custom's map editor. If they are not walking all the way to a wall you can put an inviible step-on NPC where you want them to turn around (NPCs cannot walk on step-on NPCs). Otherwise you will need some pretty ttough code to do this. I don't know how the WIP version's timers work, but going off of the last stable version I think the easiest thing to do would be to have the NPCs on pace type, but to have a loop in the background constantly checking for their position. When one of the NPCs hits its turnaround point, this background loop stops them (sets their speed to zero), then does the turning around bit, but also needs to check the other NPC's position while doing this. If you would like to try this, and need help, just let us know. Or alternatively, if you want to try using the timers, let them (meaning one of the developers like The Mad Cacti) know.
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[TMC]

Running multiple scripts at once won't be a feature until the next-next release. Timers aren't a miracle cure, in this case they only make things slightly easier.

You have 2 unrelated scripts that need to run at once, except only one can run at once. Now in C, this is accomplished with some macro wizardry hiding a switch (coroutines), but in hamsterspeak we have to split one of the scripts up into pieces, either into lots of little scripts, or using a switch statement as I've done here to select the bit of the script you want to run each time you call it.

OK, I've rewritten your code to work as you wanted, but you must use a 'WIP' build of Game.exe AND of Hspeak.exe for these to work. Blame Moogle.

This uses 2 timers: basically the timers ask that the specified script is called in so many tick's time. Timer 0 will call prison2, so set timer (0, 5) causes prison2 to be called in 5 ticks time, and since prison2 state is incremented, it'll run the next part of the script.

Variables will be wiped every time prison2 exits, so I made Guard B a global variable.

[iamben]

thanks, mad cacti, and everyone else.

the script helps me out a great deal...and those timers will come in handy for other scripts, i'm sure

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