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I noticed that there is no way in TCB to move the player without using Go To: Level Entrance commands (which resets the room, of course). Being able to move the player could open some puzzle potential, but it would also make some cutscenes easier to script.

One way of resolving this would be to have the option of setting the role of the player to a character's coordinate data, orientation, and other script effects.

(Another, and probably better, way of resolving this would be to just use the _X, _Y, _O, etc. variables that ought to be in GatEB, but whatever.)

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skell
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Actually, it is possible.

I am not sure when it was implemented, but to teleport player you have to (looking at Drod's 3.2 source code, Character.cpp#3012-3026):

1. Make sure player is not visible; this means during a cutscene set player's role to None
2. Use "Turn Into Monster" with an NPC which IS NOT a monster

Player insta-appears at the position of this given character with the character's orientation and his role is set to the characters's role. Additionally, the character becomes invisible. This is not a "free" command and it will stop commands execution for this given turn.

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skell wrote:
Actually, it is possible.

Good! Thank you for your help in confirming this.

Having the RPG's variables available in the next classic version would be quite nice, though.

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I think I've heard once or twice that the DROD 4 will have all the applicable scripting advancements of DROD RPG. I could be wrong, though.

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Penwielder wrote:
I think I've heard once or twice that the DROD 4 will have all the applicable scripting advancements of DROD RPG. I could be wrong, though.

We do have the X,Y,O player position script vars implemented for DROD 4.

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