Exevent Dropc Problems

[Endless Night]

that's a good bit of information to know.

[Alpha]

that's a good bit of information to know.

Yeah I'll 2nd that!  I can't imagine how many times my looting sub has hiccuped on me because another script was trying to determine if a blue character was an actual player or NPC !

[Masscre]

that's a good bit of information to know.

Yeah I'll 2nd that!  I can't imagine how many times my looting sub has hiccuped on me because another script was trying to determine if a blue character was an actual player or NPC !

It is funny that you mention this. I am trying to write in a sub that will sort between a player and an NPC. How did you do this?

[Endless Night]

that's a good bit of information to know.

Yeah I'll 2nd that!  I can't imagine how many times my looting sub has hiccuped on me because another script was trying to determine if a blue character was an actual player or NPC !

It is funny that you mention this. I am trying to write in a sub that will sort between a player and an NPC. How did you do this?

might be showing my ignorance here.. but findrep ?

[manwinc]

No, both a blue NPC and a Blue Player both return the Same #Findrep. The easiest Method is by doing Exevent Popup on the Character and Comparing the Contsize.

Thats the Easy way. Then if it Recognizes the Contsize as a Player, it can doubel check by opening the paperdoll and looking for Imbued Properties etc.

[Masscre]

Thank you both. I was thinking about findrep but knew that it returned the same info for both. I was trying to think outside the box but to no avail yet. Seen this and figured I would throw it out there. I like the thought about the cont size. That is thinking outside the box.

[Endless Night]

No, both a blue NPC and a Blue Player both return the Same #Findrep. The easiest Method is by doing Exevent Popup on the Character and Comparing the Contsize.

Thats the Easy way. Then if it Recognizes the Contsize as a Player, it can doubel check by opening the paperdoll and looking for Imbued Properties etc.

ow a live player/npc for some reason i was thinking you were talking about dead ones...  I know i do it 2 ways in 2 diff scripts im going to check how i did it and post back

[Alpha]

Well for the longest time I simply pulled the characters title & could sort out common npc titles.  This really broke when they allowed players to adopt skill titles though surprisingly few people actually wear them.

Other ideas..

*Honor the target.   (You get different sysmessages I think)
*Open paperdoll & check for Insured or even Any Talisman
*Attempt to party
*I've thought about attempting to check if they are mounted (maybe with height, but never actually tried that one)
*Could always check player only titles(Gladiator / Legendary??) or for being guilded to filter somewhat.   

Theres bound to be more ways, I've just always used the top one bc it was the least disruptive for other scripts.

[Endless Night]

method 1 - i use in my overseer... npc names... excluding all the ones with a given name...   but as ghost said could invalid a few players that way if they set thier title...  now im going ot have to redo that code as i missed/forgot about the change ghost is talking about errr

method 2 - lost to sands of time...


The contsize of the popup so far seems like the best selection...  couple of things to test on that front.. if a player is in a form does his contsize stay the same.. what about wearing Halloween masks... (findrep might change as well and no longer be blue)

[KaliOfLS]

Yeah, but very few NPCs are found 'everywhere'.   I think most you have to think about is 'the wandering healer', 'the mage', and 'the noble paladin', and um 'the fighter' 

How many PCs have those titles? Unless there are town scripts at work here, that matter.

[Masscre]

method 1 - i use in my overseer... npc names... excluding all the ones with a given name...   but as ghost said could invalid a few players that way if they set thier title...  now im going ot have to redo that code as i missed/forgot about the change ghost is talking about errr

method 2 - lost to sands of time...


The contsize of the popup so far seems like the best selection...  couple of things to test on that front.. if a player is in a form does his contsize stay the same.. what about wearing Halloween masks... (findrep might change as well and no longer be blue)

Cont size does stay the same even in other forms.

[manwinc]

Yeah, the only difficult one is if they are in a party.  This can return only the "Open Paperdoll" Size. which then you can go okay, it might be a player or an NPC. and do a further check.