Castle Paradox

Karies · Joined: 03 Dec 2009 Posts: 1

Hi everybody!
I want to know how to animate npc. I want an npc typing on the computer while the hero(the user) is walking around or something. But when the hero is near the npc, the npc will stand up and next he will walk to another place.

I need to program the npc action frame by frame on plotscript?...
then when the hero is near him I place the regular npc and I make him to walk?
Is somebody have an example?
thx

Bagne · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:27 am Post subject:

You can create a typing "walkabout", and set the NPC to "walk in place".

That way, the NPC will ambiently animate (typing) as the hero is walking around.

By placing a step-on NPC, you can trigger the NPC's departure.
The step-on NPC would start a plotscript that changes the walkabout sprite of the NPC, and then walks the NPC wherever you like.
You might also want to change the NPC's "walk in place" setting.

TMC · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:25 am Post subject:

Hi, welcome!

It's also a common trick to set an NPC's Movetype to Right (or Left) Turns, and surround it with walls. This gives you 4 or 8 frames of animation, but the frames will switch twice as fast as when using Walk In Place. Of course... then you would have to do something about the walls before attempting to walk the NPC (which is really easy actually: write pass block (X, Y, 0)).

You could even use an animated tile.

You'll need to make sure the script is only triggered once. If you're using invisible stepon NPCs, just make the NPC one time use.
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