Tahnan
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Can "set appearance" and "face direction" not be used as conditions to see whether the NPC has the relevant appearance or is facing the relevant direction? (If not, should I feature-request it, or is there a good reason why not?)

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I'm pretty sure that they can. I'll check right now.
Or not. I seem not to have DROD with me.

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agaricus5
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Tahnan wrote:
Can "set appearance" and "face direction" not be used as conditions to see whether the NPC has the relevant appearance or is facing the relevant direction? (If not, should I feature-request it, or is there a good reason why not?)

No, they can't be. What happens is that the NPC attempts to execute the command, and will return true/false if said command is executed properly.

You can, however, use this behaviour to determine if a character is blocked from moving. Put a move (relative direction) command after an if statement, and the character will attempt to move in that direction. If the NPC is blocked by something from performing the intended movement, it returns false and doesn't execute anything in the if-block. However, as moving takes up 1 move, the if-block commands will not execute until the move after.

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Tahnan
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Oh! I see. That makes perfect sense. It's frustrating, but it makes perfect sense.

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When we get all those RPG variables ported into classic DROD, though, we'll have the _MyO var to check orientation. But as for right now, I don't think there's any easy way to do it.

As for appearance... that would still be an issue. You will need to have a separate block of code written for each appearance, making it switch to the appropriate label whenever it changes appearance.


By the way, I just requested a system var for appearance on the RPG FR board. But regardless of whether or not it makes it into RPG, I don't think we'll be seeing it in classic DROD any time soon.

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[Last edited by Kwakstur at 04-20-2009 12:00 AM]