Castle Paradox

[Dan the Man Entertainment]

What does this do? My game is a non-caterpillar
game, but when I need to switch on the
caterpillar mode, it jumbles everyone up. How
does putting the caterpillar mode back on
affect the characters in the caterpillar
besides the leader?

[Moogle1]

I don't do a lot of work with the caterpillar, but I do know the following:

1. If you start walking (either with the player's movement or "walk hero"), they'll appear behind you.

2. When you turn on the caterpillar, you can set the position of the other heroes onscreen. It's probably a good idea to do so.
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[Dan the Man Entertainment]

That's what I'm having problems with! When I try to set the
position for the people on the screen, it turns to a horrible
mess. Where does the problem lie?

[msw188]

What is the command

find hero (hamfluxposition)

supposed to be doing exactly? find hero (*) is only a function that returns the value of the position of a hero; it does not set anything. Thus this command is doing nothing as of now. Is hamfluxposition a variable? If so, then you should type something like

hamfluxposition:=find hero (hero:name)

and then you can use this variable in all of your commands. If hamfluxposition is the hero's name, then it needs hero: in front of it, and you should not have this extraneous 'find hero' command at all, but use the 'find hero' command everytime you have to reference this hero, including in your 'set hero position' commands.

Oh, just noticed another thing. Setting caterpillar mode on makes the other heroes appear, but puts them in caterpillar mode; that is to say, they will be trying their hardest to follow the leader. To make this do what you want, you need to turn caterpillar mode on AND use the 'suspend caterpillar' command (it mentions this in the plotscript dictionary under the 'walk hero (***)' entry)

[Dan the Man Entertainment]

Yes, hamfluxposition is a variable for hamflux. It is saved when the autorun comand "saveall" is called. And perhaps you are right about the
suspend caterpillar. Not working with caterpillar in this game, I never took
that into consideration. I will try this when I get home tonight.

Edit: nope, didn't work. Maybe I should study over the script a
bit more (and the switching hero commands).

[Moogle1]

The problem is almost definitely in your find hero command. You normally say something like "findhero(hero:Bob the Hamster)". If you want to set the heroes without caring who they are, you can call them by their number: 0, 1, 2, or 3.

Wait -- that line "find hero (hamfluxposition)" doesn't do anything. You know that, right?

Try something more like this:

[Flamer]

or... if you really want to be lazy, you can use an NPC to fake the hero.
That's what I did before I learned how to use if statements in plotscripting.
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[Dan the Man Entertainment]

1) That way didn't work. I can't use find hero (hero: hamflux) because hamflux, piera, and all other people have seven classes (including their starters) and each of these classes have different names (each class is a different hero). This is where the position variables come through. When saveall is called, it checks the tag of the hero (I.E. Beefzok-SM (tag:swordsman), Piera-VK (tag:Valkyrie), Hamflux-AR (tag:Archer) ) so each hero will be called forth from the tag. The tag checked is the "have hero" tag.

2) Using NPCs would barely be lazy. I only did this once, but if you give piera a class change, she is still wearing the outfit from her starter class. Using npcs would require tons of checking code as well as using 42 npcs per map (each person has seven classes and there will be six people in total), not to mention, checking to see if it works correctly would probably take weeks (or even longer since I'll be in college tomorrow).

3) This is my last day on the computer at my house, so I HAVE to get the game uploaded today so I can download it when my laptop comes in two weeks. That way, I can further work on my game in college.

Edit: D'oh! I forgot about Alter NPC!!!!

[Moogle1]

Then replace hero:hamflux with your hamfluxposition variable, assuming that variable is the hero ID (and not position) of the real Hamflux.
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