Tokens...
 

Does anyone know how to make a code that will show as many tokens as made? An example...

NPC Code:

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if (playerchats) {

  tokenize #c;

  message #t(0) #t(1) ...;

}

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How would I make the npc show just as many words as said? I have tried this next code to show the text you say up to a limit of five:

NPC Code:

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if (playerchats) {

  tokenize #c;

  message #t(0) #t(1) #t(2) #t(3) #t(4);

}

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But it wont say anything. I once saw the code, but it was on Doomsday, and that's gone. Anyone know it?

use tokenscount to get the number of tokens and work from there

Wouldn't it be easier to use #e ?

Why use tokenize when you are displaying what the player said?
message #c; would make more sense to me.

I think he wants to know how much words are displayed.

Ok, I would use #c, but i want something a bit more, like, everything except the first word. Anyone get this? I already know what tokenscount is and all. Like, if i said "/moo Hello, my name is bob." the npc would say, "Hello, My name is Bob". Or if i said, "/moo It's a fine day out, isn't it?" it would say, "It's a fine day out, isn't it?" Something that would put as many tokens as words you say. What is the syntax/formula for that?

NPC Code:

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if (playerchats) {

  setplayerprop #c,#e(strlen(#I(#c,0)),strlen(#c)-strlen(#I(#c,0)),#c);

}

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Didn't test it, but is that what your looking for?

Re: Tokens...
 

This may be reaching, but...could you be possibly trying this in a weapon NPC instead of a level NPC?

If it's a level NPC, then that code you said should just work fine. If it's a weapon, then it will not, as the NPC does not physically exist in the level for the message command to work, and you will want to use setplayerprop #c,(stuff); to change the player's chat.

Well dusty, the code didn't work, but the syntax i saw on DoomsDay was very similar... and no, it's not in a weapon, just an NPC.

Oh, I see what it's doing. With your (not Dusty's) code, it will only message if you have n-1 words in your chat text, where n is the amount of tokens you were trying to display with that message. So, if you're trying to display #t(0) through #t(4), that's 5 tokens, so you would have to say 4 or more words for it to work.

As for Dusty's code:
Dusty, when exactly is the string containing your chat text a string list?

I think #e() is your problem.

Did Doomsday have a website? If so, I can get the script there. And Lance, you're wrong, it can't be 4 or more... just 4:o.

If you were a pretty good scripter, you'd figure it out yourself :-p

The simplest way would be to use #e, using the first token's length to deduce the second token's start index.

did you even check it? Or did you just assume that because you want it to work a certain way means that it only works that way even if you didn't script it that way?

whats up with that n-1 thing anyhow? I would've figured that if it were to not work in any circumstances it just wouldn't work if the tokenscount was any less than the highest index of tokens being looked at...

Um, no I'm not. You can say more words than you call the tokens of - it's just when you say fewer words than tokens called minus one that there's a problem. Test it for yourself.

No idea. The engine apparently tolerates one variable that doesn't exist, but having any more than that will cause it to misbehave.