Tahnan
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NPC names matter in two cases: what you see when you right-click them, and what you see in the speech log if they've spoken.

Right now, if you want a character who looks just like a tar technician but is named Harold, you have to create a custom character named "Harold" with the technician graphic. If your hold has an NPC or two, that's not so bad, but if you're building something with a lot of NPCs, it can get really tedious really fast. Plus, if your character gets renamed ("I'll call you Harry!"), you have to have him disappear and have a new character appear.

What would be cool is a "Name" script command that sets the name of the NPC.

Jatopian
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This is a good idea and I support it.

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Samuel
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Like this maybe:

Set "Name": Harold to NPC at xx,xx.

Also, if you wanted two NPC's to go to one specific square at different times, the scripting WILL conk up and they will both try to go there at the same time, so, say if you wanted each person to collect some gold from a certain square:

One script would say:

Wait for NPC "Harold" at 09,09 (example)
Set var gold + 10

Another would say:

Wait for NPC "I'll call you Harry" at 09,09 (example)

Instead of both saying:

Wait for NPC at 09,09 (example)

If both scripts said this it wouldn't work, so I am in support of this Name command.


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skell
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Or just add _MyName variable. Never mind me.

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[Last edited by skell at 07-07-2009 04:09 PM]

Monkey
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This is DROD, not DROD RPG. DROD only has global variables.

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skell
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Monkey wrote:
This is DROD, not DROD RPG. DROD only has global variables.

Now that I think about, yep, I confused them. I think I played with DROD RPG far too much lately. Sorry.

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skell
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Now would you look at that - will be coming to 5.2 release! PR

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kieranmillar
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Can confirm working in 5.2.0.508 . Name updates when right-clicking the character and in the speech history.