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sweetguy posted 30-08-2000 09:13 GMT
hi i have spent alot of time just thinking how i would ever do this so i decied to ask you guys. what i want to do is make a character with a mind of his own. in other words say i have a rouge. the player is in a room with the rouge. then after a while the rouge moves to another room then after another while he goes to another room. how i got it set up is a have a battlefeild and when you kill one guy i move him to another room that the player can't go then after a lil while he comes out all by him self. have you ever played a text role playing game on the net??? it's like that. hope you under stand what i'm trying to say.
MaDbRiT posted 30-08-2000 12:58 GMT
>> hi i have spent alot of time just thinking how i would ever do this so i decied to ask you guys. what i want to do is make a character with a mind of his own <<
I'm doing this in my game (should it EVER see the light of day!) and I'm using what I call a 'script' because I want my NPC to follow a particular course of action, rather than move randomly. Basically my character performs a (LONG!) sequence of actions until the player stops her.
The code is a bit covoluted and there's far too much of it to post here, but if you e-mail me and explain exactly what effect you are trying to achieve, my code (or a variation of it) might suit your purposes.
Al
MaDbRiT posted 01-09-2000 21:10 GMT
Further to my posting earlier.. I've cobbled up a small. runnable demonstration of an NPC that appears and wanders around the game world at random. It only uses proper exits though - no 'impossible' movements :-)
In my demo the NPC is a cat which is mooching around a house.. if you feed it it goes away for a while and can't be found, eventually it turns up and starts mooching again... when it's hungry! LOL
I have a pet cat - it works this way, hence the choice of subject.
If the code sounds like it might be useful to you it's now downloadable from my Tips and Tricks page.
Al
Computer Whizz posted 02-09-2000 19:38 GMT
Where's your web-site?
it may be interesting to see a different site about Quest!
Hey Alex, maybe you should start up a Quest ring!
like a Microsoft Agent ring ect..
:)
--CW
Alex posted 02-09-2000 23:52 GMT
A Quest ring would be somewhat pointless, as apart from the main website I'm aware of only two websites that are related to Quest, and one of those isn't a hugely useful site really (well, it was incomplete last time I checked, which was a fair while ago to be honest). The other site is of course Alan's... still, maybe one day in the far future.

Alex Warren,
Axe Software

Author	Topic: a hard one
sweetguy	posted 30-08-2000 09:13 GMT hi i have spent alot of time just thinking how i would ever do this so i decied to ask you guys. what i want to do is make a character with a mind of his own. in other words say i have a rouge. the player is in a room with the rouge. then after a while the rouge moves to another room then after another while he goes to another room. how i got it set up is a have a battlefeild and when you kill one guy i move him to another room that the player can't go then after a lil while he comes out all by him self. have you ever played a text role playing game on the net??? it's like that. hope you under stand what i'm trying to say.
MaDbRiT	posted 30-08-2000 12:58 GMT >> hi i have spent alot of time just thinking how i would ever do this so i decied to ask you guys. what i want to do is make a character with a mind of his own << I'm doing this in my game (should it EVER see the light of day!) and I'm using what I call a 'script' because I want my NPC to follow a particular course of action, rather than move randomly. Basically my character performs a (LONG!) sequence of actions until the player stops her. The code is a bit covoluted and there's far too much of it to post here, but if you e-mail me and explain exactly what effect you are trying to achieve, my code (or a variation of it) might suit your purposes. Al
MaDbRiT	posted 01-09-2000 21:10 GMT Further to my posting earlier.. I've cobbled up a small. runnable demonstration of an NPC that appears and wanders around the game world at random. It only uses proper exits though - no 'impossible' movements :-) In my demo the NPC is a cat which is mooching around a house.. if you feed it it goes away for a while and can't be found, eventually it turns up and starts mooching again... when it's hungry! LOL I have a pet cat - it works this way, hence the choice of subject. If the code sounds like it might be useful to you it's now downloadable from my Tips and Tricks page. Al
Computer Whizz	posted 02-09-2000 19:38 GMT Where's your web-site? it may be interesting to see a different site about Quest! Hey Alex, maybe you should start up a Quest ring! like a Microsoft Agent ring ect.. :) --CW
Alex	posted 02-09-2000 23:52 GMT A Quest ring would be somewhat pointless, as apart from the main website I'm aware of only two websites that are related to Quest, and one of those isn't a hugely useful site really (well, it was incomplete last time I checked, which was a fair while ago to be honest). The other site is of course Alan's... still, maybe one day in the far future. Alex Warren, Axe Software