Castle Paradox

[NeoForce]

My game has the monsters walking around and when the player approaches them, the battle starts. Of course, their NPC's are set to "use only once", but once their defeated (Or ran away from), how can I get them to repsawn once the player has left the area and then came back. "Cresent Dream" also uses this battle system for anyone who needs an expampe. PLEASE HELP!

[AdrianX]

..no,in Crescent Dream,i did NOT set the NPCs to be used only once.
..i assigned specific tags to them,and once activated by the hero,the assigned tag will be turned on.i made it so that they will appear only if their tag is off,so there.
..in the map autorun script for maps where there are ememies,i made it so that all the enemy-assigned tags will be turned off again so that they will again appear for you to fight.
..oh,and you can re-use the "enemy tags" in all the enemy - infested maps you have.

[Camdog]

Setting NPCs to "use only once" actually associates them with a tag that, when turned on, causes them to no longer appear. You can see the tag number in Custom.exe next to their usability setting in the edit NPC screen. (It will look something like "Usable only once (tag 1002)".)

Though this tag is assigned automatically by Custom, you can still manipulate like any other tag in a plotscript. In other words, all you have to do is call a script that resets all the "use only once tags" whenever you want to respawn enemies on a map. The easiest way to do this (assuming you want enemies on a map to respawn whenever a player leaves that map) is to set that script as that map's autorun script (which can be found in Edit Map Data -> Edit General Map Data). The script would look something like this:

[NeoForce]

Wow, very cool

Thanks everyonKeep your eyes out for my soon-to-be-released (Hopefully)!

[DukeofDellot]

You know, it took me a while to figure this out, but you can also do this without tags. "Destroy NPC" only removes the NPC until the player uses a door, so I messed around with it a bit, and made a script that uses no tags, and keeps the NPC on the map if you run away from combat.

This is the exact script I'm using:

[Moogle1]

This is essentially what I did for Scary Game 2, except it wasn't as clean since the fight screen was a different map. You can choose to remember NPC states now, though, which would've solved that problem.

Out of curiosity, is there a plotscripting command to reset NPC states? There should be.
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[DukeofDellot]

Now there's a new bug, and I realize what happened... which is pretty funny. The destroy NPC command only targets the first copy of it... so... heh... you know, I just thought of that as I was typing. Either way, it was kind of funny that it took winning two fights to get the opponents to disappear. (Switching back from GML is messing with my head...)

And since I don't know the real answer to my problem... I'm going with "brute force" and making it say "Destroy NPC (who)" a number of times adjusted for the dungeon. In this case, the opening dungeon only needs two...

I guess if I wasn't so stubborn, I would switch over to tags... but... I'm a jerk like that...

In short, the script shown in my previous post does not allow the use of the same NPCs in different rooms of the map. Though if you do not use duplicate NPCs, it should still work fine.

EDIT: I take it back...

SHAZAM!!!

[TMC]

There's no reason to pass the NPC id number to your script: it is passed the npc reference automatically as the 2nd argument, so you can delete the right NPC. See 'Plotscripting Tutorial#Other Ways to Start a Script'

[DukeofDellot]

huh... I did not know that... I guess I've got more reading to do then.

Thanks, Cacti.

[TMC]

Oh, my mistake. After battle, the map is reloaded, and though tile data is reloaded, npc data is not.

So there's no need to use the new mapstate remembering features.
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