Despawn characters?

[thingol]

Despawn characters?

It should be easy, but I don't know how to despawn characters at a different point than the spawnpoint.My character i.e. shall spawn at his house, walk across the country, with 2-3 AP's in it, and despawn at the local inn. I tried a final actionpoint with only a despawn ability, no looped things in the spawnset, but it will not work.

 

[nayava]

You just need two times a spawn entry in which the character runs through the city. The first with the house's spawn category, the second with the inn's. It is just important, that the time the first ends matches the time the second starts.

 

[Gamewidow]

I believe that you can have several spawn points with different actions assigned to them. Just set your "despawn" point to not allow spawning (if that is what you want) and vice versa for your "spawn" point (his house).

 

[thingol]

Ok, a second spawnpoint only with a disappear option, but I don't know where I place it in the spawnset. Can I use a spawnpoint instead of an actionpoint in the actionlist? ???

 

[ailinon]

For a typical "walk from house to inn" thing, you need:On the map:- a "spawn here, do not despawn here" spawnpoint at the house ("house_out" or something)- a "despawn here, do not spawn here" spawnpoint at the inn ("inn_in" perhaps)In the NPC file:- the spawnphase has those two spawnpoints assigned (you can assign multiple spawnpoints in the NPC file's spawnphase, after all)Now, this gives you a "straight-line" walk, which may not look quite good - you might want to have the NPC follow a road or a path or something. For that, add on the map:- an actionpoint near the house, with Waypoint walk - Waypoint prefix set to "walk_to_inn", and with an action assigned (all_walkto1 is good)- several waypoints, named: "walk_to_inn1", "walk_to_inn2", etc. (I don't know if two-digit numbers are allowed here)And, in the NPC file, add- an action "all_walkto1" (to send the NPC to the actionpoint that starts the walk)Of course, you'll be needing the exact opposite for a return path. Spawnpoints "inn_out", "house_in", waypoints "walk_to_house1",2,3, ... you get it.-- Sinus

 

[thingol]

Many thanks, I try it tomorrow

 

[Gamewidow]

you can also use a single spawn/despawn point for multiple npcs ... so you only need to define the one path and everyone (or a subset of the npcs) can use it

 

[thingol]

you can also use a single spawn/despawn point for multiple npcs ... so you only need to define the one path and everyone (or a subset of the npcs) can use it

The use of spawnpoints and actionspoints is clear even for multiple npcs, but my problem is (still :wall how to define the correct story_npc_file or spawnset_file with the disappear SP. Could someone mail me a screenshot of a correct file please. I hoped I can make some farmer walk to the inn for an after work , but now the had to become Amish

 

[ailinon]

Just enter two values in the "spawn category" field. Right-click, add category, "house_out". Right-click, add category, "inn_in". That's all.-- Sinus