[Ohrrpgce] snapping an NPC or hero to grid

[Adam Perry]

It might even be the kind of thing you want at the engine level. The
original Legend of Zelda allowed semi-freeform movement, but you snapped to
the half-tile when you switched between moving horizontally and vertically.
The same thing could work here.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:56 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
wrote:

> I was talking to RMZ about how to unstick NPCs that get stuck when their
> speed
> changes while moving. I know Pepsi has had to do a ton if this sort of
> thing too.
>
> I came up with:
>
> script, snap npc, arg, begin
>   # Kill current movement
>   walk NPC(arg, west, 0) # x axis
>   walk NPC(arg, north, 0) # y axis
>   # reset NPC to current tile
>   put NPC(arg, NPC x(arg), NPC y(arg))
> end
>
> And I was thinking this is probably common enough that it should be done
> with standard commands.
>
> Maybe a built-in "snap NPC" command? Or maybe an optional argument to "put
> NPC" that can kill current momentum?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> ---
> James
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