NPCS in playerworlds

[excaliber7388]

as you all must know i just started a playerworld, Playerworld13, or soon to be Dark Rival
anyway, all the NPCs are messed up. can someone explain why?

[Curt1zzle]

Can we be a bit more detailed?

[URBANLEGEND]

Why didnt you just keep all this **** in one thread? Christ. If you dont know what your doing you shouldn't of bought a playerworld

[excaliber7388]

i do know, and i will point out the fact that this worked flawlesslyy off line, but now the NPCs dont work...ex: Warp Rings do not warp, things do not change zoom or colors, or simply dont follow the script. it shouldn't be so hard just to put this online!

[Lance]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

i do know, and i will point out the fact that this worked flawlesslyy off line, but now the NPCs dont work...ex: Warp Rings do not warp, things do not change zoom or colors, or simply dont follow the script. it shouldn't be so hard just to put this online!

http://ilfirin.org/graal/NPC_Server

[excaliber7388]

that did answer a few things, but the biggest question,now, would be how do i change the colors /size of the NPCs? setcoloreffect and setzoomeffect don't work

[Zurkiba]

//#clientside

//#serverside

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Zurkiba

//#serverside

No.

[excaliber7388]

hey i figured something out. its playerenters, compusdied,and the warps that don't work, any suggestions?

[xAndrewx]

Hire staff! :-)

[excaliber7388]

i now have the npcs working...i feel like a *****...it was so simple =/ anyway, the only problem is that the warps, or links, between the levels don't warp you. some work, some don't =/ i can't figure out whats wrong there yet. if you have suggestions feel free to help thx!

[kenyonandelliot]

if they don't warp then fix them

[Matt]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

i now have the npcs working...i feel like a *****...it was so simple =/ anyway, the only problem is that the warps, or links, between the levels don't warp you. some work, some don't =/ i can't figure out whats wrong there yet. if you have suggestions feel free to help thx!

Make sure the level that you want the link to warp to is uploaded, and the extension is correct. Meaning if it's .nw put levelnamehere.nw

If you have more questions please feel free to pm me or just setup a support ticket and appoint the ticket to General Questions or Playerworlds.

[excaliber7388]

i have re-uploaded the levels and that usually works, havn't ran into trouble since, but it's mostly the warprings that don't work here's the script im using,
(yes i am using the warper gani, i will be removing it though):
// NPC made by Excaliber
//#CLIENTSIDE
if (playerenters||playertouchsme&&!hasweapon(MainTown )) {toweapons Warp Rings/MainTown;hidelocal;}

if (weaponfired) {setplayerdir 2;seteffect 0,0,0,0;setani warper,;sleep 1;setani warperend,;setlevel2 main1_darkrival2.nw,5,13;}

if (created) {dontblock;
}

its REALLY simple, so i don't get why it doesn't work online, it's perfect offline

[Polo]

setlevel2 only works serverside if I remember correctly.

[Skyld]

Obey these rules in all of your code.

[excaliber7388]

ok, what should be used instead of setlevel? or setlevel2?

[xAndrewx]

if (actionserverside){
if (strequals(#p(0),warp)){
setlevel2 #p(1),#p(2),#p(3);
}
}
//#CLIENTSIDE
if (weaponfired){
triggeraction 0,0,serverside,weapon,warp,level,x,y;
}

[excaliber7388]

nope doesn't work theres an error

[Bl0nkt]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

nope doesn't work theres an error

Change #p(2) to strtofloat(#p(2)). Same goes for #p(3).

Also be sure to change weapon in the triggeraction to the name of the weapon this script is in.

[excaliber7388]

still doesn't work this is the script i am currently using, yes it still has setlevel2 in it, but i can't get the other way to work, whats wrong with it?:
// NPC made by Excaliber (Manager)
//#CLIENTSIDE
if(playerenters){
toweapons Warp Rings/Warper1;
hidelocal}
if(weaponfired){
freezeplayer 2;
play thunder.wav;
setplayerdir 2;
setani drwarp,;
sleep .1;
for (i=0;i<21;i++) {
seteffect i/20,i/20,i/20,i/20;sleep .05}
{sleep 1;
seteffect 0,0,0,0;
setlevel2 warper.nw,31,31;}
}

[Lance]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

if (actionserverside){
if (strequals(#p(0),warp)){
setlevel2 #p(1),#p(2),#p(3);
}
}
//#CLIENTSIDE
if (weaponfired){
triggeraction 0,0,serverside,weapon,warp,level,x,y;
}

For one, you're trying to use strings as vars. For another that is insecure. Don't do this.

[excaliber7388]

yes, but i'm not using that script it didn't work well anyway or at least i couldn't figure out how to make it work well whatever i use, it should work with seteffect and a gani, any suggestions? (here's the script again )

// NPC made by Excaliber (Manager)
//#CLIENTSIDE
if(playerenters){
toweapons Warp Rings/Warper1;
hidelocal}
if(weaponfired){
freezeplayer 2;
play thunder.wav;
setplayerdir 2;
setani drwarp,;
sleep .1;
for (i=0;i<21;i++) {
seteffect i/20,i/20,i/20,i/20;sleep .05}
{sleep 1;
seteffect 0,0,0,0;
setlevel2 warper.nw,31,31;}
}

[Bl0nkt]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

yes, but i'm not using that script it didn't work well anyway or at least i couldn't figure out how to make it work well whatever i use, it should work with seteffect and a gani, any suggestions? (here's the script again )

// NPC made by Excaliber (Manager)
//#CLIENTSIDE
if(playerenters){
toweapons Warp Rings/Warper1;
hidelocal}
if(weaponfired){
freezeplayer 2;
play thunder.wav;
setplayerdir 2;
setani drwarp,;
sleep .1;
for (i=0;i<21;i++) {
seteffect i/20,i/20,i/20,i/20;sleep .05}
{sleep 1;
seteffect 0,0,0,0;
setlevel2 warper.nw,31,31;}
}

toweapons does not add a weapon to the player. It adds it to NC in RC.

addweapon Warp Rings/Warper1 (From what I understand, addweapon is detected as false offline. Try it on your server.)

[excaliber7388]

still doesn't help is there another way i could warp a person without setlevel2? i think that might be the problem

[xAndrewx]

Originally Posted by Lance

For one, you're trying to use strings as vars. For another that is insecure. Don't do this.

Aha, I didn't know that. My mistake.

[excaliber7388]

nvm i figured it out

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Bl0nkt

toweapons does not add a weapon to the player. It adds it to NC in RC.

Ideally, this should be removed. Then people might not get it confused.

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by Bl0nkt

toweapons does not add a weapon to the player. It adds it to NC in RC.

addweapon Warp Rings/Warper1 (From what I understand, addweapon is detected as false offline. Try it on your server.)

Toweapons does give the player the weapon sometimes, and I can't get addweapon to work yet either

[Polo]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Toweapons does give the player the weapon sometimes, and I can't get addweapon to work yet either

See in RC (Well, NC but meh) the W with a sword over it. hit that and add a weapon. Paste your script for your weapon (warper) in, except for all the toweapons stuff, give it an image file and save it. Now in an npc in your level, you use addweapon the add the weapon you saved earlier to the player. You should really do ALL your weapons and items this way. As it allows you to easily bug fix weapons from RC (NC)

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Toweapons does give the player the weapon sometimes, and I can't get addweapon to work yet either

toweapons should not be used on a server. Only use it offline for testing.

As for addweapons, it adds a weapon to a player that is already in the Weapons list. It does not add weapons to the list and then to the player. Also, it will only work on the serverside.

[excaliber7388]

hey thanks, as you all might know, i made this entire server (well, most of it) without knowledge of online scripting, and, for the most part, you guys have really helped thanks. If what you say is true, i shouldn't have (too ) many more errors, and won't be bothering everyone with so many posts i should be done some time this month (testing as well) so look foward to the improved Dark Rival, comming soon. hope to see you all there!