Shopkeepers
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Apprentice
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written Monday, May 15 2006 13:18
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I can't for the life of me figure it out, but it has to be something dead simple I'm missing... If you have a shopkeeper how do you link the shop screen to the buy button in dialogue? I have for example a food salesman and if you say "food" to her she'll sell you food, but if you click buy she'll just go "huh?" Posts: 46 | Registered: Thursday, September 27 2001 07:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
Member # 5491
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written Monday, May 15 2006 13:38
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Make her respond to "purc". In other news, holy crap, it's Karamea! -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Monday, May 15 2006 15:12
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Is this Karamea person some oldbie I should know about, or just some random person who showed up, posted a couple questions, and left? I'm guessing by your enthusiastic greeting that it's the former, but I don't believe I've heard of this Karamea. No offense, Karamea. My memory is fuzzy. -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, May 15 2006 15:33
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I have no clue, but she's member 17, so probably an oldbie. Only 40 posts, though. -------------------- But I don't want to ride the elevator. Posts: 420 | Registered: Sunday, January 8 2006 08:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Monday, May 15 2006 16:27
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People forget the days of yore involving Ikonboard... -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Monday, May 15 2006 17:29
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This is also a case where the title fits very nicely, if I do say so myself. Anyway, yeah, "purc" stands for "purchase". -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Monday, May 15 2006 20:08
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I feel touched that I am remembered. btw. Little billy sue, it's he. Thanks for the replies... It's been years since I've tampered with the scenario editor... I used to spend ages making scenarios but never completed one. So I thought I'd give it a go the other day and try something more modest and completable, but found I'd forgotten alot of what I'd learnt. Anyway, another problem. Making an NPC appear in a town after a certain thing has happened. There seems to be two possibilities to do this that I can see. Under you edit monster under advanced there is "appears when event has occured" This does not seem to work whatsoever. Is this a bug? I noticed that 0 is no event, and when you run a special node that triggers an event it comes up with an error when 0 is entered even though in the special node editor it says that 0-9 should be used. The other idea was for using the stuff done flag kill off option in reverse (starting the scenario with that stuff done on 1, and then switching it to 0 when it was time for the character to appear). This also didn't seem to work (I could use it make monsters dissappear but not reappear. Posts: 46 | Registered: Thursday, September 27 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, May 16 2006 01:09
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quote:Oops. :o . Another classic case of "name ending in A" syndrome. Anyway, to get back in your good graces: Alcritas did this in Falling Stars. Events in general are rather dodgy, and life/death flags I'm pretty sure only work if you visit four other towns in between. You've got two options that I can think of. 1) Set an SDF that calls a special upon entry into the town. The special calls a special encounter that is the NPC. Or, the SDF causes the special not to be called, making the NPC disappear. 2) Variable Town Entry. This can let you completely redo the town, but it takes up a town slot and the town reverts to blackness the first time you enter it. For an explanation of VTE see here or here. You could try "Disappear on day" but I'm not sure that works either. (Anyone know how Alcritas did the diappearing NPC's in FS? I thought it was life flags but apparently that doesn't work.) Anyway, best of luck with your scenario! -------------------- But I don't want to ride the elevator. Posts: 420 | Registered: Sunday, January 8 2006 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 16 2006 01:22
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Don't use events; they don't work reliably and don't do anything you can't do via SDFs. IMHO, making appearing NPCs appear via special encounters is the best option wherever possible, as it's the least work for you and the least obtrusive to the player. When you want to make an NPC die and stay dead, life flags work, but you have to call a Destroy Monster node to destroy the monster type of what you're trying to make dead, since a living creature whose life flag is set to "dead" won't disappear until the town is reset. If the life flag can be set outside of town, have a special called on town entry that checks the flag and calls the Destroy Monster node if it's set. (Obviously, this only works if the monster you're trying to kill is the only monster of its type in town.) [ Tuesday, May 16, 2006 01:25: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, May 16 2006 01:55
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How would you make an NPC appear via specials? I can see you can "place monster" but that doesn't associate dialogue with it. I do the copy town thing, it might tie in well with a few other things. How do you as players appreciate the variable town entry? It's not exactly a transparent thing. Posts: 46 | Registered: Thursday, September 27 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 16 2006 02:12
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quote:What you want is Place Town Encounter -- create a monster, then use the Edit Creature feature to associate it with an encounter group so that it's hidden until the corresponding encounter is called. Place Town Encounter is under One-Time Specials, but if you don't give it an SDF, you can call the same town encounter every time the party enters town. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, May 16 2006 17:30
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Brilliant. Cheers Posts: 46 | Registered: Thursday, September 27 2001 07:00 |