sleep
 

i have a script of an npc character that moves around and does things. well whenever i use a sleep command in his script no strings after where i put the sleep command will set, when i take the sleep command back out they all set fine again. Can anyone help me with this?

Weird... Try to duplicate it in other npc's.

what kind of string are you trying to set?

I had a problem with this too.
Say for instance your script was this.
if (created){
timeout = 0.05;}
if (timeout){
timeout = 0.05;
if (playertouchsme){
sleep 2;}

If you got stuck on the playertouchsme, and it wouldn't work anymore, try setting the timeout in the command, like this:
if (playertouchsme){
sleep 2;
timeout = 0.05;}

ok
 

if your wondering how this was fixedheres a nifty little trck kitie showed me to fix this. Firsst do somthing like
setstring this.owner,#a;
next yo would use get player.
you have to do this because while sleeping the npcserver can't write to the player.


Thanx Kitie XD!

yea, that's me =P
When u do if(playertouchsme) on the server sided script of an NPC, it remembers your account name b/c u touched it. Then when u do something like setting a client string, then it sets it for your account. But when u have a sleep somewhere in there, then it forgets your account name b/c its doing timeouts and stuff. So when u set a client string after a sleep, then it doesn't remember the player, and therefore doesn't set the string. So u need to get the player's account name in a string, then do a with(getplayer())