NPC is not moving

[Saeryen 299]

This is the event:

 

 

 

I had the event location set because at first she was close to Maia that it would be waaaay hard to keep her away and not get a Game Over. She's supposed to move toward Maia, but she just stands there. Help please?

[xoferew 261]

Is it the repeat on move event?  Does it need a loop instead?

Edited August 22, 2015 by xoferew

[devonm0 37]

Instead of 'move_toward_event(x), try 'move_toward_character($game_map.events[x])'  Honestly, I tried yours and it gave me an error when I entered the map with the event in question, so I don't know how you're even running it to verify that it's not making her move.

[Saeryen 299]

The move_toward_event was part of a downloaded script that worked before...

 

What's the difference between repeat and loop?

[xoferew 261]

This looks like maybe it never gets to your touch check?

I would think a loop would run one movement, then check if touch has occurred, and then if yes break the loop and if no repeat.

But I am no move route expert.

A loop would be like this, only with your touch check instead of adding to a variable.

[Saeryen 299]

Okay, I tried devonm0's suggestion but the problem is still there. I think I should add that when I hit one of them, the others that haven't been hit start moving but they stop after the text reaction (the character hit speaks) they all teleport back to their beginning positions and are still.

 

And during the character's speech, another guard could touch Maia, but that doesn't trigger Maia saying "Nooooo!" and then a game over when it should.

[RetroExcellent 369]

I believe I'm understanding this correctly. You basically want the guard to chase after her and if they catch her you want it to be a game over? Jonnie91 and I did something similar with Slenderman's Army, let me take a look at the events and see if I can get you a screen shot.

 

Edit: Okay I figured out how to do this for you and it is rather simple. The first thing you are going to need is an ongoing common event that constant sets two variables. Player X and Player Y. Each of these events should always match the players map X and players Map Y.

 

Secondly you can trigger the guard chase however you want. I did so by creating two more variables Guard X and Guard Y and set a self switch to trigger when the Player X matches the Guard X.

 

 

Secondly I made a custom move event on the second page, simply 'move towards player' I also increased the speed to 'normal' to make it a bit more intense. One other thing you may notice by the screen shot below that I set the priority of this event to 'above player' The reason for that is so that the conditional branch events can actually happen. Basically you will need the guard to physically be on the same exact spot as the player in order to 'grab' them. As you can see even this event does not require much as it is simply constantly checking to make sure that both the Player X and Player Y match up with the Guard X and  Guard Y variables.

 

 

I hope this solves your problem.

Edited September 19, 2015 by Shaddow

[Saeryen 299]

Thank you, I will try that!

 

EDIT: It worked! Thank you so much!

Edited September 19, 2015 by saeryensong

[Tsarmina 2,612]

Closing as solved!

[Jonnie91 1,149]

I'm gonna jump in here just to say, that event was co-created by Phillip (from RRR) he's still around in the community so do try to credit him, as well as Shaddow