[Ohrrpgce] Global NPCs

[Ralph Versteegen]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 17:04, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

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> On Tue., Aug. 25, 2020, 11:24 p.m. Ralph Versteegen, <teeemcee at gmail.com>
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>> Cool!
>> In the L documentation it says pool 0 is local and 1 is global, but in N
>> it says the filename is globalnpcs0.n. Is that intentional?
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> I think my thinking was that globalnpcs0.n is the first global pool, but
> then I wasn't sure if multiple global pools were worth bothering with
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You're replying to an old email! You already changed the documentation to
say globalnpcs1.n, which is what it is.

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> Did you update NPC debug mode too?
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> Almost certain that I did, but needs to be double checked.
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No, it's not done yet. NPC debug mode doesn't show a 'g' for global,
doesn't show the pool in the tooltip, and even mis-calculates the NPC copy
number.


>> Once NPC names are added, people can also use them to refer to NPCs
>> without any pool argument. And I think I'll allow naming NPC instances,
>> overriding the definition name, to refer to a particular copy, since the
>> renumbering of copies as you add/delete NPCs is also a complaint.
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> Yes, this is a good idea!
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I've got a decent chunk done on NPC names in a branch. The part I started
wavering on was whether to export names as constants like npc:Bob or
instead extend HS and use something like actual strings or Lisp symbols
(like :Bob) ... hmm, didn't we discuss this somewhere already?

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>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 13:10, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I finished the base implementation of global NPCs today, and it passes
>>> basic tests.
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>>> I'm not going to check it in just yet, because I haven't finished the
>>> plotscripting changes yet, or written any tests
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>>> I decided that I am going to go with adding a pool argument to a bunch
>>> of scripting commands, not using ID 5000+ syntax.
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>>> Commands like "walk npc" that expect NPC reference or ID will default to
>>> using local id. You will need to use NPC reference to work with global NPCs.
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