Hi, everyone, Iv been trying to find out how I can make my npc talk, just the basics like hello for what can I do for you, just like in the 2d rpg games where that text is displayed on the bottom of the screen. Thanks you.

shop_keeper.lua


change the 200 to larger number to increase the range at which the text appears

Aw that is a nice little scrip thank you

is there a way to make the character (when approached by the player) to play an audio file?

If you place down a sound zone and go to its properties panel, and change the sound (which is located at the bottom) and select your audio file where you had it last, the audio should trigger after stepping on the sound zone..

Hope this helps!

Cheers TheSourceCode, I have been doing that and it works well. Only problem with using the sound zone is I can only get it to play once.

Or you could use this (just updated smallg's code above) attached to the NPC:



Place the sound file (.wav or .ogg) in audiobank folder and point to it in the characters property - Sound1 field (not Soundset).

Hi cybernescence,

I tried your code however I keep getting the following message when loading the game:

No function called shop_keeper_main_main

I created the .lua file and called it shopkeeper_main then set the audio file in the sound1 field. Is there something else I should be doing.

Cheers,

Brad

Bradus, try making it 'shop_keeper'.

Hope I could help!

-TheSourceCode

Hi,

here's the script as an attachment.

Cheers.

Hey cybernescence for multiply audio files what methods do you recommended? Are we limited to just the one soundset1? or can you use soundset2 and so on?

For sounds attached to entities it looks like we're constrained to two.

For character entities (ischaracter = 1 in the fpe), the first "slot" in the fpe (e.g. soundset = Male) is used to reference an audiobank\character folder, in this example 'male' - so files\audiobank\character\male. In this folder there are sub folders, e.g. onAggro, OnAlert and within these folders are many sound files 0.wav, 1.wav, 2.wav.

Within a lua script for a character, can use the command SetCharacterSound(e,"male"). This tells the engine to look at the folder "files\audiobank\character\male" for the next character sound commands used in the script, so PlayCharacterSound(e,"onAlert") will look into " files\audiobank\character\male\onAlert" folder and pick one of the sounds in there at random to play (one of 0.wav, 1.wav, 2.wav etc). So PlayCharacterSound(e,"onAggro") will do the same but pick one of the sound files from the "OnAggro" folder at random to play.

So you could set up a new folder called, say, "beast" with the same folder structure as for "male" above and place new sounds in the subfolders as you need. Then it would be SetCharacterSound(e,"beast") in lua followed by PlayCharacterSound(e,"onAlert") to play one of the sounds in the 'onAlert' folder that is below the 'beast' folder.

It probably makes more sense if you look at the folder structure

I started using that recently for a couple characters. Though have no idea how to get more than 2 sound files to play for non-characters. For instance like an intercom talking back to the player or things like that.

Thanks for all the help. I have been playing around some more and trying to learn as much lua as possible. I have made some mods to the shop keeper script however I wanted the text to appear in paragraph form. At the moment the text just goes off the screen.

How do I prevent this and make the text appear in paragraph form?

Ok just played around a little more and this seems to work:

TextCenterOnX(50,90,3,"First line of text here")
TextCenterOnX(50,93,3,"Second line of text here")

I have no idea what the numbers at the start mean (50,90,3, and the second line 50,93,3,).

I assume the start of this script: TextCenterOnX is telling it to center the text on screen. However what do the numbers mean?

the first number is the 'x' % of the screen (horizontal) so 0, is left border, 50 is center & 100 is far right.
the second number is y, its the same but 'y' % (vertical)
and the third is the size of the text

thanks smallg. That makes sense and helps me a lot.