11 replies to this topic

[Blitz]

How do I make a group of NPCs go hostile and attack the party?
I'm kind of confused on that subject...

[CamDawg]

ActionOverride("scriptname",Enemy())

The actual fighting and spellcasting and whatnot should be handled by their scripts.

[Blitz]

ActionOverride("scriptname",Enemy())

The actual fighting and spellcasting and whatnot should be handled by their scripts.

Will this cause the entire group to go hostile, or just one of the soon-to-be enemies?

[SConrad]

One creature.

[Blitz]

How do I get all nearby soon-to-be enemies to go hostile? Do I make a seperate script for each one?

[CamDawg]

Just group them together in a DO action or in a script block:

ActionOverride("creature1",Enemy())
ActionOverride("creature2",Enemy())
ActionOverride("creature3",Enemy())
ActionOverride("creature4",Enemy())

[Potencius]

If they have the same death variables, you'll be better off setting a global.

SetGlobal("GoHostile","MYAREA",1) in the dialog.

IF
Global("GoHostile","MYAREA",1)
!Allegiance(Myself,ENEMY)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
Enemy()
END

[Blitz]

I'll try dawg's method.

IF
Global("GoHostile","AR0400",1)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
ActionOverride("r#knive",Enemy())
ActionOverride("r#knive",Enemy())
ActionOverride("r#knive",Enemy())
ActionOverride("r#knive",Enemy())
ActionOverride("r#knive",Enemy())
ActionOverride("r#sven",Enemy())
END

Does that look alright?

I couldn't get Potencius' to work, sorry.

Edited by Blitz, 23 November 2004 - 04:20 PM.

[Blitz]

That didn't work, but this KINDA did.


ActionOverride("NKNIVE",Enemy())
ActionOverride("NKNIVER",Enemy())
ActionOverride("NKNIVER",Enemy())
ActionOverride("NKNIVER",Enemy())


I used this (surronding code not shown, but don't worry, it worked)

I have three "copies" of an NPC fighter with death variable KNIVER and one captain with KNIVE.

This made the captain and only one fighter go hostile.

What did I do wrong? Perhaps I misunderstood your instructions?

[neriana]

That didn't work, but this KINDA did.


ActionOverride("NKNIVE",Enemy()) 
ActionOverride("NKNIVER",Enemy())
ActionOverride("NKNIVER",Enemy())
ActionOverride("NKNIVER",Enemy())


I used this (surronding code not shown, but don't worry, it worked)

I have three "copies" of an NPC fighter with death variable KNIVER and one captain with KNIVE.

This made the captain and only one fighter go hostile.

What did I do wrong? Perhaps I misunderstood your instructions?

Change the death variables of the fighters to NKNIVER1, NKNIVER2, and NKNIVER3, and change the Enemy() code accordingly. It should work then. Right now, the game is just referencing the same .cre three times.

[Sillara]

I find it easiest, when dealing with a pack of identical .cre enemies and a leader, to set a global in the dialogue, something like this:

~Blah, blah. Let's fight.~
IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("LetsFight","GLOBAL",1)~
EXIT
END

Then, I make a .baf and assign it to the little goons' .cre. In that .baf file, it would say something like this:

IF
Global("LetsFight","GLOBAL",1)
Global("FightOn","LOCALS",0)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
SetGlobal("FightOn","LOCALS",1)
Enemy()
END


This allows other scripts to check for the LetsFight Global to be 1. You can either make the leader an enemy in the dialogue or add a similar block of code to his .baf.

Sillara

P.S. Sorry if that was just confusing rather than helpful.

[CamDawg]

Yeah, multiple creatures with identical DVs is generally not good practice. Either rename them using neriana's suggestion or use Sillara's.