Castle Paradox

[Jjkaybomb]

I'm getting some weird stuff when I try to make things walk backwards. Am I just supposed to do it in a diferent order? Example: I do "set hero direction" in the direction they already are and do "walk hero..." but when I play the game under that plotscript they just get frozen in place.
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[Mad Cacti]

You can't make npcs/heros walk backwards in this fashion, but I'm surprised that they get frozen.

You'd have to create a oop using put hero and set hero frame to achieve this, I think.

[Uncommon]

Try this, changing the arguments to fit your needs.

[JSH357]

You can do all that, or:

Make a new hero walkabout set.
Flip the images backwards.
use setheropicture() to change the walkabout
Walk in the desired direction
change the hero picture back and set hero direction correctly

Just a suggestion

[Flamer]

[JSH357]

Flamer: If you're only using the script once throughout the entire game, it makes perfect sense to use. What's it gonna increase the filesize by? 1 byte?

[Flamer]

well, since you're controlling the NPC/hero, it'd save memory and hassle from changing picture sets
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[JSH357]

You programmers never give up, I swear.

Let us normal people have our easy ways out.

[junahu]

Just changing the hero's direction usually results in the hero 'sliding' from tile to tile which can be irritating and sometimes doesn't look right.
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

[no_shot]

Try something like this.

script, walkbackwards, begin
suspend player
variable (i)
variable (j)
variable (f)
f:=0
for (i, 1, 5, 1) do, begin
  for (j, 1, 4, 1) do, begin
    put hero(me, (hero pixel x--j), hero pixel y) #might have to modify these depending on where you want the hero to move...
    wait (5)
  end
  if (f==1) then, f:=0 else, f:=1
  set hero frame (me, f)
end
resume player
end

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[TMC]

Whoops.

[Bob the Hamster]

As uncommon correctlys suggested, you should do: