[Ohrrpgce] Global NPCs

[James Paige]

Oops! Yes! I confused myself!

Okay, yes, now I see the things that still need to be done :)

On Wed., Nov. 18, 2020, 12:51 a.m. Ralph Versteegen, <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 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>
>> wrote:
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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?
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>>
>> Did you update NPC debug mode too?
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> I finished the base implementation of global NPCs today, and it passes
>>>> basic tests.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not going to check it in just yet, because I haven't finished the
>>>> plotscripting changes yet, or written any tests
>>>>
>>>> I decided that I am going to go with adding a pool argument to a bunch
>>>> of scripting commands, not using ID 5000+ syntax.
>>>>
>>>> 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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