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Camdog
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 Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject: Help with the NPC copy count command |
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I'm having some trouble using the NPC copy count command. Basically, it doesn't seem to work for me, even when I use it for relatively simple commands. For instance, when I use it with a show value command, a 0 pops up if there are no NPC 5s hanging around, but no value is displayed if I up that count. The command is simply...
show value(NPC copy count(5))
What gives? What am I doing wrong? |
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TMC
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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If you up that amount? As in you run the 'show value' command again, or you create a NPC of id 5?
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Minnek
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, here's what I can suggest, though I'm not sure it'll fix the problem... try having a variable be set equal to the npc copy count, have it wait(1), then run the show value with the variable as what is passed.
| Code: | set variable(NPCsCounted, npccopycount(5))
wait(1)
show value(NPCsCounted) |
hope that helps.
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Help with the NPC copy count command |
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| Camdog wrote: | I'm having some trouble using the NPC copy count command. Basically, it doesn't seem to work for me, even when I use it for relatively simple commands. For instance, when I use it with a show value command, a 0 pops up if there are no NPC 5s hanging around, but no value is displayed if I up that count. The command is simply...
show value(NPC copy count(5))
What gives? What am I doing wrong? |
So when there are no copies of NPC 5,
| Code: | | show value(NPC copy count(5)) |
displays a zero... but when there is one copy of NPC 5 on the map it displays nothing? Or do you mean it displays a zero, which doesn't look any different from the zero you had on the screen from the previous "show value", so it looks like it has displayed nothing?
You may have found a bug of some kind, but I know the "NPC copy count" command works, because I have tested it. (It just might not work "right" or it might not work "always" ;) |
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LeRoy_Leo
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Funny... I have seemed to accidentally copy the NPCs in the Fortress of one of my games (TTLQuest) again, it was on accident. I have no clue how that could have happened, I had a HELL of a time cleaning the place up aftert that, and I am still trying to figure it out... That is how they copied like that. I generally don't have an answer for you, my friend, but even if I did, it would already have been taken by James (the all knowing one) or Minnek...
Even so, I have a similar problem that is just the opposite, mine copy when I don't want em' to! *GULP* 
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Flamer
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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lol, LeRoy he's talking about dislaying how many copies of the same npc is on the map, not copying as in transferring npc...
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Uncommon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Camdog wrote: | | ...no value is displayed if I up that count... |
(emphasis mine)
Yes, he's obviously not having trouble copying them. |
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LeRoy_Leo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Oh... Well, isnt that imbarrassing...  I see now, but I cant help. I coulda helped with what I thought was the problem, but not this. I just aint good enough at PlotScripting yet. 
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Flamer
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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it's all good leroy, at least you tried.
plotscripting is easy to understand, one word "practice"
took me a month of practice to finally understand all commands in the dictionary, before i started using a combination (advanced) plotscripting.
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