NPC Movement Frequency

[Jacob]

This will add a scroll bar to control the frequency of npc movement. This was only tested on MSE1.

Difficulty: 1/5

::Server Side::
modGeneral
Sub GameAi Search for

Code:

i = Int(Rnd * 5)

Replace with

Code:

i = Int(Rnd * Npc(NpcNum).Movement) + 1

modTypes
NpcRec add:

Code:

Movement As Byte

modDatabase
Sub LoadNpcs add:

Code:

Npc(i).Movement = Val(GetVar(FileName, "NPC" & i, "Movement"))

Sub SaveNpc add:

Code:

Call PutVar(FileName, "NPC" & NpcNum, "Movement", Trim$(Npc(NpcNum).Movement))

modServerTcp
sub SendEditNpcTo add and the end of the packet

Code:

Npc(NpcNum).Movement

modHandleData
find "savenpc" add

Code:

Npc(N).Movement = Val(Parse$(15))

::Client Side::
modHandleData
find "updatenpc" add

Code:

Npc(n).Movement = 0

find "editnpc" add

Code:

Npc(n).Movement = Val(Parse$(15))

modTypes
find NpcRec add

Code:

Movement as Byte

modGameLogic
Sub NpcEditorInit add

Code:

frmNpcEditor.scrlMovement.Value = Npc(EditorIndex).Movement

sub NpcEditorOk add

Code:

Npc(EditorIndex).Movement = frmNpcEditor.scrlMovement.Value

modClientTCP
sub sendsavenpc Add to the end of the packet

Code:

.Movement

Add a scroll bar in frmNpcEditor for the movement
Add a label for displaying the movement number
Add

Code:

Private Sub scrlMovement_Change()
    lblMovement.Caption = (scrlMovement.Value)
End Sub

If there any errors please let me know.

[Becoming]

any max for the scroll bar ? and can you define frequency ?

[Matt]

I would assume how often they move.

[Jacob]

I put a max of 254 on my scroll bar. Perfekt is right about frequency.