Castle Paradox

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How do you switch from one character to another character who is in another place?

[Leonhart]

I forgot to log in!!!!
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[junahu]

you have two options;

1)pray to god for the answer
2)define your question more specifically

here's a very sketchy idea

1) have catapillar party bitset active
2) disable catapillar party using plotscripting (autorun script)
3) when a key is pressed make the camera follow the next hero in your party
4) swap the position coordinates of that hero and the party leader
5) swap the order of that hero and the party leader
6) make the camera follow the party leader again

for this to work you would have to find a way of preventing the player from using the order option on the menu
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[Flamer]

specific details will be needed for a more descriptive outline... which shouldn't be necessary...

here's a general run down on what you need to do.
you'll need global variables to store values like team1X, team1Y, team1Map...
next, you'll need to store who's in which party. there are many ways to do this one, but i'm no good at telling anyone how to do this part.

umm... yeah, moral of the story... break this task into small parts instead of always looking at it as a whole big picture.
if you break it down to little sections, it's actually a lot easier.
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[rpgspotKahn]

Umm... are you talking about NPC's or HERO's... ? because NPC's could be a whole lot harder to do if you wanted to change scene onto another map with an assigned NPC.

Please define your question more clearly.
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[Leonhart]

I just want to know how to play a completely different character if the main character, for example, got hit on the head and is unable to continue.
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[LeRoy_Leo]

Swap in and out hero... Right guys?

PS: Lock hero too if you want him to stay out till later. Then unlock and swap or add to party.
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[TMC]

You are all insane.

If you want to change the active hero, use:

swap in hero (who)
swap out hero (who)
lock hero (who)
unlock hero (who)

Add, if you haven't already added the hero, use

add hero (who)

So lets say hero A is in the party, and B is locked in the reserve

[junahu]

But... does he want this to happen at will? Or is this just some cutscene where we end up playing as a different character?

Why do I always overthink these things?
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[Flamer]

ok, think of what you want, think of how you want to do it...
and IF you're STUCK... then and ONLY THEN post about how you should've done it, what have done on the issue....

and MAYBE then people will give you a straight answer, because right now... i feel like ignoring your posts.... (i'm tired as well, but i would at least keep a straight mind and NOT post about half a thought... if even that)
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[LeRoy_Leo]

[Leonhart]

Boy, I'm being a pain in the...neck! Sorry I can't find the right words to clarify this whole thing.

Anyway, you know in Resident Evil 1,2,3 when you always get to play as the other character so that you can get something in a particular place that the other one can't reach (ex. Sherry in RE2)?

That's what I want. I have no experience in plotscripting and that's the reason why I'm asking that question. Is MAd Cacti's idea good enough? It kinda makes sense to me. What do you all think?
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[RedMaverickZero]

Hey, that's the name of the thread. Plotscripting help. It's what we're all here for.
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[Shadowiii]

Do you mean, switch characters at any time?

If so, your script would be something like this. You'd assign it for "on keypress"



if (keyispressed(*putwhateverkeyitishere*))
swap by name (hero:*nameofherox*, hero:*nameofheroy*)
end
#to reverse the swap

if (keyispressed(*putadifferentkeyitishere*))
swap by name (hero:*nameofheroy*, hero:*nameofherox*)
end

Put this on "when key is pressed" on the maps you want this optiont o be available. As a good idea, you may want to lock and unlock the heroes each time, as then the person can't go into "Party" or whatever that command is and manually get them himself.

You could add on to this for as many heroes as you need. You'll probably need a "find hero" before each one just to check which hero is being swapped, but that's really easy.

Also, if you, say, wanted NPCs to day different things depending on which hero you had, this could be simply altered by useing tags on each command.

Oh yeah, my code isn't perfect, so dont' cut and paste (I forgot ends and then,begins for the ifs and stuff).

Hope that's what you ment, as I have never played RE.
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