Castle Paradox

[Camdog]

Ok, this is a shot in the dark, but here goes...

In my game, I have a series of NPCs of the same ID. I want them to animate individually when hit with a weapon. I've achieved this by destroying the hit NPC, replacing it with an NPC of a new ID which corresponds to the hit animation, and then destroying that NPC and replacing it with an NPC of id == the original. I position these NPCs with the "put NPC" command, because I want them to be created at the same pixel as the original NPC, not just the same tile, to avoid animation jumpiness.

Ok, that's the technique. Visually, everything works fine. Unfortunately, if this swapping occurs while the NPC is walking between tiles, the new NPCs are misaligned and start doing all sorts of undesirable stuff like walking through walls.

So, my question is... Is the any way around this? Is there anyway I can let a newly created NPC know it is halfway through it's journey to a neighboring tile? I really don't want to have to code a custom movement system.

[MADSOFT Games]

I haven't used plotscripting in a long time, but can't you do something that checks the NPC's current location and creates the new NPC at the same specific x and y coordinates....?
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[Bob the Hamster]

What about Change NPC ID? That way to don't need to create and destroy.

All NPCs actually have an "X Go" and "Y Go" value that shows how they are currently walking, but the only scripting command that exposes this data is NPC is walking which does not help your situation.

[Camdog]

Holy crap, that's exactly what I needed! I was hoping I had missed something obvious. Thanks James!