Rawr.. things needed for the OLE

[Warcaptain]

Ooookay Stefan you asked me to post it.. here is everything WE NEED for the OLE.

1. level.npc object this should be an multilevel array.. ie:
   level.npc[npcID] = {script,of,npc,line,by,line};
   so lets say NPC ID 1's script is this:
   

   NPC Code:

   ---

   
   
      function onCreated(){
   
        player.chat="Hello!";
   
      }
   
     

   ---

   
   level.npc[1]=={"function onCreated(){","player.chat=""Hello!"";","}"}
   
   Get it? So level.npc[1] would be an array of the script of that npc, where each index of the array is a line in the script.
2. level.sign/link/chest object improvement currently these objects are pretty pointless.. we cant modify them and things like level.link does not even include destination level!! These objects NEED to be able to be modified serverside and all the attributes of these objects need to be loaded into the object.. link the signs x,y,w,h etc!
3. level.save() function this function needs to be made so that once modifications are made to the level object (ie: signs, npc, links) the changes can be saved into the NW file.

Seriously though Stefan.. I have been trying to do all this stuff for a while and it just doesn't seem possible without it.. at least not to make all this stuff effectively.

I made a script to load the local NPC's in a level by parsing the .nw file.. but it does not work on gmaps because I use the NPC ID to find which script to load from the NW file (the ID in inside levels is the order in which they appear in the .NW file so its easy) It would be just so much easier.. and I doubt too much work on your end, to make this in the NPC-Server x-x

Not to mention that there is no way to edit levels now aside from tiles.. because you cant save* anything (savelines or anything) so I do not know how you expect us to do any of this x-x

Thanks!

[xXziroXx]

Great suggestions, would actually come in handy.

[Admins]

You can request the script with requesttext, need to check if it's working for local npcs now

[Warcaptain]

You can do this for all NPC's??

What about saving the script?

What is the syntax for requesting it?

What about the rest of the things I requested.

[Maniaman]

Also would be nice if "TILES" worked for showimgs too, instead of just GuiDrawingPanels

[Yen]

So, remind me...
Why can't you just write to the level as text?

[Warcaptain]

You can not write to files in the levels folder, at least not with save*() functions.

[Yen]

Originally Posted by Warcaptain

You can not write to files in the levels folder, at least not with save*() functions.

Yes you can.
I recently replaced all of my overworld's tile bushes with NPCs by writing directly to the level as text.
levels/overworld_*

[napo_p2p]

I completely agree with Maniaman's post. I would love to see these things implemented.

Originally Posted by Warcaptain

What is the syntax for requesting it?

I'm curious about that too (more specifically, the parameters for requesttext for requesting level scripts).

[Warcaptain]

requesttext("npc",id) is for DB npcs... but level npc's I do not think there is yet a way.

[Maniaman]

Originally Posted by Warcaptain

You can not write to files in the levels folder, at least not with save*() functions.

yes you can

[Warcaptain]

Oh well, I thought I read somewhere on here that you could not.. Well that is good then. I should be able to make a local NPC editor.. except for the fact that there is no way of telling on GMAPS what NPCs are what since the npcs[index].id is for all the NPCs on the gmap.. not the local (level) npcs

[Admins]

Ok we have made requesttext work for local npcs, there is still a problem with dummy npcs (npcs without active script which are optimized to not appear in the npcs[] list) and local npcs are not saved right now. The new npcserver is not uploaded to all machines yet.

[Yen]

findareanpcs(getmapx(player.level)*64, getmapy(player.level)*64, 64, 64) ?

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Yen

findareanpcs(getmapx(player.level)*64, getmapy(player.level)*64, 64, 64) ?

What do you want to say?