Exclamation mark without being a trainer

[MarvinLock]

Is it possible to make someone use an exclamation mark over his head and get near the player when he passes in front of him, without him being a trainer?

Thanks!

 

[Nickalooose]

pbNoticePlayer(event)

This calls the exclamation mark.

 

[Maruno]

Specifically, use this code in an event command:

Kernel.pbNoticePlayer(get_character(0))

 

[MarvinLock]

Thank you both! You are always helpful.

 

[MarvinLock]

Sorry to disturb you again but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I think it worked the first time I tried it but it doesn't now. I only get noticed when I pass in front of the event. Here is the event:

The second event page is just a "Show Text" command in case "Self Switch A" is activated.

 

[ShadowFiendZX]

the trainer(3) and event touch only works when you pass in front 3 tiles or less, and did you use extendtext to paste the code? because it looks like it goes onto a different line, which is bad.

 

[MarvinLock]

the trainer(3) and event touch only works when you pass in front 3 tiles or less, and did you use extendtext to paste the code? because it looks like it goes onto a different line, which is bad.

I fixed the code you are talking about. Thanks! But the problem is that the player should be noticed when he passes in front 3 tiles or less but he doesn't. He only gets noticed when he passes right in front of the event (1 tile). That's the matter.

 

[Maruno]

How code appears in script event commands is important. Different lines are treated as completely separate and unrelated lines unless they're made to run on via certain situations.

What the game thinks you currently have is a line which says:

Kernel.pbNoticePlayer(get_character

And a separate line which says:

(0))

Both lines are incomplete - the first has one fewer ) than (, and the second is the other way around. The game is too stupid to wonder if they're both supposed to be part of the same line, so it deals with each separately, and both end up being errors due to the brackets.

You can make the game see that one line should run into the next line, though, and that's when the first line ends with something that clearly expects something else. Like ( or && or || - these imply there's more to come, so it looks to the next line for more to bolt onto the end of it.

Alternatively, use ExtendText. That's the easiest option.



As for the range of an event, Trainer(1) will look only at the tile directly in front of the event, Trainer(2) will look at that tile plus the one immediately beyond it, and so forth. An event having the name Trainer(3) (or some other number) plus a trigger of Event Touch is the only thing that causes the event to activate at a distance. The pbNoticePlayer just produces the exclamation mark and moves the event towards the player, and is unrelated to the distant triggering (although trainer NPCs typically use both, of course).

 

[MarvinLock]

How code appears in script event commands is important. Different lines are treated as completely separate and unrelated lines unless they're made to run on via certain situations.

What the game thinks you currently have is a line which says:

Kernel.pbNoticePlayer(get_character

And a separate line which says:

(0))

Both lines are incomplete - the first has one fewer ) than (, and the second is the other way around. The game is too stupid to wonder if they're both supposed to be part of the same line, so it deals with each separately, and both end up being errors due to the brackets.

You can make the game see that one line should run into the next line, though, and that's when the first line ends with something that clearly expects something else. Like ( or && or || - these imply there's more to come, so it looks to the next line for more to bolt onto the end of it.

Alternatively, use ExtendText. That's the easiest option.



As for the range of an event, Trainer(1) will look only at the tile directly in front of the event, Trainer(2) will look at that tile plus the one immediately beyond it, and so forth. An event having the name Trainer(3) (or some other number) plus a trigger of Event Touch is the only thing that causes the event to activate at a distance. The pbNoticePlayer just produces the exclamation mark and moves the event towards the player, and is unrelated to the distant triggering (although trainer NPCs typically use both, of course).

Wow... So many things I need to know... :P Thanks Maruno!
I would like to ask something else as well. How can I change the default image with the exclamation mark? I mean the one that is located in Graphics/Animations (029-Emotion01.png). I searched in the game's scripts using CTRL+Shift+F but couldn't find it. Thanks!

 

[Maruno]

The exclamation animation is in the Database tab of the Database. In RMXP, press F9. The script define animation number 3 as the exclamation animation.

 

[MarvinLock]

The exclamation animation is in the Database tab of the Database. In RMXP, press F9. The script define animation number 3 as the exclamation animation.

Thanks again! You always answer to my questions.

 

[MarvinLock]

Oh! There's also something else I would like to know! How do I use extendtext? I opened the textbox with the script and ran extendtext.exe but nothing happened.

 

[FL]

Oh! There's also something else I would like to know! How do I use extendtext? I opened the textbox with the script and ran extendtext.exe but nothing happened.

Run the extendtext.exe before editing "Show Text" and "Script" event commands.

 

[Wootius]

I take it that this doesn't work if the triggering event is diagonal to the event you want to move? It only works for straight movements while I've been playing with it.

 

[Nickalooose]

Run extendtext.exe as administrator.

@Lauerolus, what do you mean? If you want an event to have an exclamation mark, you could always just show the animation on that event.

 

[tImE]

Personally, I use "Counter(X)" as the name of the event and make it Event Touch.
The event commands follows as such:

Show Animation: Exclamation Mark
Wait: 8 frame(s)
Set Move Route [Ignore if can't move]:
-Move Toward Player (as many times as X in the name)

 

[Wootius]

Red is the triggering event.
Blue is the moving event.
Black is how it should move.

Black never moves if Red is diagonal as shown. It just turns the player and shows the "!" animation.

@Time
That works perfectly, but I still have to set the number of tiles to move.

 

[Maruno]

It's not meant to move events in any way other than in a straight line - Essentials doesn't have path-finding in it. You'll find it much easier to just make a move route for the blue event. Kernel.pbExclaim(get_character(42)) will only show the exclamation bubble, and will show it above event number 42 - change this number accordingly. Then wait for a few frames, then move the blue event accordingly (left 4, up 1).

 

[tImE]

@Time
That works perfectly, but I still have to set the number of tiles to move.

That is why I use "Ignore if can't move".
Simply add way too many move commands and the event will move until it can't go any further.

But judging from your screenshot, why do you simply not make it a regular "Player Touch"-Event with a Set-Move-Route for the old man?

 

[Wootius]

@Maruno: Thank you for the answer. I just thought it weird that the movement command "Move toward player" handled the moving fine.

@tImE: In the case of a three wide path, instead of having to manually set up three move routes I was hoping that I could just plop in a pbNoticePlayer() instead. So, laziness.