Dying Flutchman
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Hi y'all,

Title sums it up. I'm working on a project involving several NPCs that should react to one another.
In particular, I want to make a token that tells other NPCs to start/stop moving. Now I can make a token that sets a var when I step on it. But the other NPCs are stubborn and don't respond to the changes in the var.

I guess there should (?) be a way to declare a room-global var that can be seen/edited by all NPCs in the room? Or am I missing something important here?

On a related note: I would like NPCs to turn in response to arrow tokens. But I haven't found a way of detecting CW/CCW arrow-token-trigger by the player. Again: am I missing the obvious?

Any help is much appreciated.

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Nuntar
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Variables are global by default, so something else is wrong with your script (maybe an infinite loop?) You should post the room in question so we can have a look at the scripts.

For turning in response to arrow rotators, you could use Wait for item Force arrow to query the direction a particular arrow is pointing.

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Dying Flutchman
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I bet it's an infinite loop. As always Will have a good look and post again when I can't get it to work.

Will also try the workaround with the arrow querying (is that a verb?) rotator token.

Tnx

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Dying Flutchman
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File: testing vars.hold (11.5 KB)
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Still stuck on this one.

Demo hold attached. The button changes orientation to show on/off and also set the ".MiniMinerState" variable.

The MiniMiner looks at the state and decides to move (or do nothing).

Can't see what I'm messing up here.

Any ideas?

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kieranmillar
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Variables are global by default, unless you put a period in front of the name, then it's local.

From the in-game documentation:

Starting a variable name with a period ('.') configures it as a local variable instead of a global. This means each NPC will have its own version of a variable with this name and there is no value sharing among them.

If you want this to be global, don't put a period at the front of its name.

Dying Flutchman
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O noes!

I use the powers to make sure my own variables are nicely clustered together at the tool of the list... Didn't even think of any extra meaning

Many thanks to both of you.

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