npcs[0].id
 

ask a bunch of npcs what their id is (npcs[0].id).
Offline, they'll all give different answers.
Online, they'll all say 1.
Has this been secretly deprecated and nobody told me? -_-

The first entry in the npc's array obviously have the id of 1, since it's the first npc in that level to be initialized. :oo:

It's possible that npcs[0] was always the current npc (this), but it has been changed, now npcs[] is actually level.npcs[]. On the other hand players[0] on client-side is still the current player when I remmember correctly.

Alright, so for an NPC to get its own ID it has to go level.npcs[0].id? Or does it have to search through level.npcs[] until it finds itself? :-P

I would kind of assume it has to do this.id, at most.

Oh, gosh, that's loads easier.

Now if I can just figure out how to get a nonzero value returned for npcscount, level.npcscount, npcs[i].x, level.npcs[i].x....

npcscount should normally work fine, otherwise use npcs.size() or level.npcs.size(). If those don't exist then the npc is probably not in a level (control-npc timeout ?)

chompy taught me with(findareanpcs(etc)), thx all. :-D