IQubic
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How do I make it so that a script is only run when Beethro steps onto the same tile as a character? How do I make the said script cause Beethro to speak?

Also, I want the character to be invisible and not killable.

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[Last edited by IQubic at 06-19-2016 07:14 PM]

Kallor
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Just don't check the "visible" box of the special character to make keep invisible and thus immortal. You can have Beethro speak stuff with the scrip command "Wait for entity - Beethro", choose the coordinates and another command "Speech - Beethro" and type whatever. It doesn't really matter where this scripted character actually is.

Unless you meant that you're planning to make many copies of this custom character, in which case for convenience you actually want to refer to coordinates of the invisible character. Then do this:

Loop: (made with "Label" command)
"If..."
"Wait until var _MyX = _X" (type _X into the amount field)
"If..."
"Wait until var _MyY = _Y"
"Speech Beethro (1600) 'Hello!'" (made with "Speech" command)
"If End"
"If End"
"Wait 0 turn(s)" (made with the plain "Wait" command)
"Goto 'Loop'" (made with "Goto" command)

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kieranmillar
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If a character is invisible then "Wait for player to touch me" will trigger when the player steps onto the same square as it.

Kallor
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Well that's marginally easier

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GerAvos
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Can you teleport the player to another level without using stairs? Or can you build stairs maybe?

How do you make it so that leaving the room teleports you to another level?

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[Last edited by GerAvos at 06-22-2016 05:55 PM]

hyperme
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The 'Go To Level Entrance' command allows you send the player to all sorts of wonderful places. Combine will 'Wait for Entity' to have room edge exits.


Stairs can't be built. You can remove them with building, but not add them.

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GerAvos
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How can I make a room where you hit an orb to permanently open a block on another room? All I need would be a variable that gets carried over through rooms and levels. (Edit: Figured this out by myself. Use "Start global script" to make a character's default script play in every room.)

Also, I don't really understand orientation. How do you remember which value corresponds to which direction?

Hope you don't mind me reusing this thread yet again

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[Last edited by GerAvos at 07-07-2016 05:27 PM]

Nuntar
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In the list of script commands, scroll down to "Set var". At the top-right, a box will appear allowing you to create new variables by entering a name and clicking the "Add" button (not "Add" in the list underneath, which refers to arithmetical addition of variables).

Orientation: 0 = NW, 1 = N, 2 = NE, 3 = W, 4 = neutral, 5 = E, 6 = SW, 7 = S, 8 = SE. It's regular, but you just have to remember the pattern.

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GerAvos
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Thanks, that helped!

Another question: Why are rooms that have only required scripted monsters automatically cleared without killing the required monsters? I always need at least 1 non scripted monster. However, in The Second Sky there were rooms that had only scripted monsters.

bomber50
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I don't think there are any rooms like that. Several rooms in TSS have non-scripted monsters killed by scripting on Turn 0.

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Rooms with only a required scripted monster will count as cleared when you enter. I'm not an expert, but I believe this is because the "imperative required target" script gets run after the initial check to see if the room is clear. The way to get around this is to place some sort normal monster (a spider works nicely for this since it is invisible) out of the way somewhere. Have the script "attack tile" set to "kill" on the tile that monster is on during turn zero.

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