Hi all,

it must be very simple what I'm trying to achieve, but I'm not having much joy.

I'm trying to have it so that an NPC spawns before the player after a certain amount of time has passed within the game. For argument's and testing's sake, let's say 10 seconds.

I place the NPC in an incredibly obscure and unreachable part of the wasteland, assign them an ID and when the timer hits 10, the NPC 'teleports' to the players location.

This however doesn't seem to be happening. I apply the script to the NPC and zilcho.

Is this because I'm using a Begin GameMode when I'm not in the same 'cell' as the NPC?

scn mytestnpcFOLLOWERSCRIPTfloat timerbegin gamemode   if timer < 10      set timer to timer + GetSecondsPassed   else      	ShowMessage mytestnpcMsgDEBUG	PlaySound FXMissileFlyBy	imod FlashBangISfx	mytestnpc00.MoveTo Player     set timer to 0   endifend

Cheers

Yes. You'll want to use a quest script for something like this.

Cipscis

Yep, it's because you're not in the same cell. Gamemode scripts run when the object is processed- if an object/NPC is in a cell adjacent to the player, they're processed every frame. If the NPC isn't, they're only run when the NPC is processed to check their AI package, about once every game hour (slightly more often if the NPC is flagged as a Quest Object, never if the NPC has No Low-Leveled Processing enabled). If you want to set up a timer that's not dependent on a particular object, you'll need to make a Quest and use a Quest Script.

Aaaaahh, I see! So effectively, what I need to do is place the script on the NPC's speech 'Quest', enable it to start when the game is running and then utilise the gameMode as per norm?



Gotcha Confirmed my suspicions but wasn't too sure, many thanks.

Brilliant, resolved that one thanks But not entirely dissimilar to the same question... if I'm trying to get an NPC to disappear when you've finished a convo, putting:

mytestnpc.disable

into the result script of the topic crashes the game. I've been sat here scratching my head trying so hard to think of a way around this and for the life of me I can't. Any theories?

Its probably because you are disabling the NPC "as you are talking to them". How can you be talking to somebody who is suddenly disabled?

It would be better to add an AI package on the NPC that tells them to 'go somewhere else' and be disabled when they get there.