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Editing a local NPC

How would I go the way of editing local npcs from a level. I had tried changing the layer of one in clientside but only changed for me and no one else.
I tried doing in serverside but the layer wouldn't change. I had the npcs chat change to the layer it was in and it was chatting correctly but the layer wouldn't actually change.

open the level in texteditor and change it manually

hello!

this is probably a case of the 'layer' variable not synchronising from serverside to clientside, you could try either setting it via drawunderplayer()/drawoverplayer() or by triggering its change using npc.trigger('Event', params...);

So I got it to work some what. In class that the npc is joined to I have

PHP Code:


		
			
function onLayerChange(){

  this.trigger("Update");

  //this.chat = "test1";//this worked

  //this.layer = params[2];//can only be changed in clientside

  this.triggeraction(this.x+.5,this.y+.5,"LayerChange2","");//doesnt work

}



//#CLIENTSIDE

function onPlayerEnters()

  this.layer=this.attr[2]



//doesnt work

function onLayerChange2(){

  this.trigger("Update");

  this.chat = "test2";

  onPlayerEnters();

}

the layer only changes when I update level or reenter level. I tried triggering "Update" for the npc in my weapon script and some other thnigs but no luck

Unfortunately you can't trigger clientside like that (it would need to copy the trigger to every player in the level). The best way I remember solving these kind of issues is using a timeout to check an attr, sadly.

You could also hack it by triggering a weapon clientside on each player in the level, but that feels kind of bad too. You can't do point-triggers to clientside, though.

edit: nevermind, this entire post is wrong, see below

Chris' method of using attr w/ a timeout makes the most sense.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbk1994 (Post 1737812)

You can't do point-triggers to clientside, though.

You can since V6, I have a lot of scripts which work as follows:

PHP Code:


		
			

function onUpdate(temp.val) {
  this.attr[4] = int(timevar2);
  this.attr[5] = temp.val;
  triggeraction(this.x + 1, this.y + 1, "Update", "");
}

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated()
  this.setshape(1, 32, 32);

function onPlayerEnters()
  if (this.updatetTime != this.attr[4])
    this.onActionUpdate();

function onActionUpdate() {
  this.updatetTime = this.attr[4];
  echo("New value is " @ this.attr[5]);
}

Looking at -

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirko (Post 1737810)

PHP Code:


		
			
function onLayerChange(){
  this.trigger("Update");
  //this.chat = "test1";//this worked
  //this.layer = params[2];//can only be changed in clientside
  this.triggeraction(this.x+.5,this.y+.5,"LayerChange2","");//doesnt work
}

this.triggeraction() won't work as it is not an NPC function, but a level function. Change it to one of just triggeraction(), level.triggeraction() or this.level.triggeraction(). The NPC needs a Clientside setshape() in order to receive the triggeraction as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ffcmike (Post 1737814)

You can since V6

Confirmed. Stefan added it after popular demand.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ffcmike (Post 1737814)

You can since V6

whoops, thanks for correcting me! clearly I'm a bit behind the times :p.

Got it to work!! thanks so much!!