testnpc

[jake13jake]

In my attempts to expand my custom movement system that I plan to use on Classic, I have made functions to detect players on x,y,w,h (though it depends on how reliable testplayer(x,y) is) and tiletypes on x,y,w,h... however, because players have a constant width and height, and round to the nearest 0.5, coordinate, they're easy to detect.

However, I have come to certain a point. I want to be able to test for NPCs using the x,y,w,h method. There, is, however, no way in the current scripting language to script this efficiently. NPCs can have any x and y value (clientside), and any width and height value (clientside). They round to the nearest 16th (well, 16ths is all that matters for the movement system anyways). In order to make the testing precise for NPCs, you would have to check every pixel of the defined area to test for it. I wouldn't do that.
However, onwall2 IS able to test NPCs, though I wouldn't know how.

perhaps an onNPC(x,y,w,h) function could be made?