Dying Flutchman
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Hi forum friends,

I'm finalising a hold with quite some scripting. The final level will feature generated NPCs. However, upon generation, they will not interact with the room tiles. For instance: I can push the NPC into a pit and it disappears. However, generating an NPC on a pit tile works and the NPC is suspended in thin air. This also seeks to be the case for normal monsters.

Now I could out course check the target tile for placement suitability, but that's quite convoluted, since there are many options: open/closed doors, pits, water, hot tiles etc. that all required separate actions. So does anybody know this problem and of possible solutions? I was thinking along the line of generating first and then moving the NPC, but didn't get this to work.

Amy suggestions would be appreciated.

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kieranmillar
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I believe the convoluted solution is the only way, meticulously checking for every invalid option before spawning the NPC (or alternatively, checkingbfor valid options might be a smaller list, depends on your rooms).

Dying Flutchman
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Thanks for the quick reply! I'll take the long winding road, then.

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Xindaris
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Well, you could always give the NPC that's being generated a section at the top of its code like "check if I'm on a pit/water/whatever and if so, fall". There might be a one-turn delay depending on Things, but it would at least fall properly.

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Dying Flutchman
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I'll use a bit of both of your advice. Thanks again.

Not bothered by the possibility of a one turn delay. In fact, a one turn delay might actually give interesting puzzle potential on this case...

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