SRL Archive - Reflection Discussion

Can anyone give me few lines code, how to limit offscreen npc searching. Like sometimes it searches fishing spots from message area, yeah there are fishing spots under it.
Yeah I did get it,it searches from 104*104 loaded area. but how you limit that area?:rolleyes:??

just do a simple TileOnMS() check

Or use FindNPCEx, which takes an additional parameter of how many tiles away from your character you want to search.

SPOTTT: TNPCEx;
if FindNPCEx(313,SPOTTT) then
begin
…………
spott := TileToMS(SPOTTT.Tile, Random(0));

Gives error about type mismatch:/Whats wrong?
And why the hell there aint any tutorials about using FindNPCEx…

You declare spott as a TNPCEx and then you want to store a TPoint in it.
TileToMS returns a TPoint.
http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48399
Although it's not about FindNPCEx but should give you some idea.

Also if you look into that type

{type TNPCEx;
Description: Holds information related to an NPC. }
 TNPCEx = record
  MS, MM: TPoint;
  Tile: TTile;
  Index, NPCType, Height, Animation, TurnDirection, Combat: Integer;
  HPRatio: Integer;
  Name: string;
  InFight, IsMoving: Boolean;
end;

you can see that it already got an MS record or whatever it's called.
So what I would do:

var
  N: TNPCEx;

FindNPCEx(313, N); //so we find it
if TileOnMS(N.Tile, 5) then  //we see if it is on MS or not
MMouse(N.MS.x, N.MS.y, 3, 3);  //move the mouse there
etc, etc  //uptext and such

Please note that this is not the actual code for it. Just an example.

Hahh I just looked at it. There is already a TileOnMs check in GetNPC or whatever it uses. So I think we don't need it.
I got some stick movie to watch so if you got any more problem and nobody(who better in reflection) answered the question I will look more deeply in it.

Well main problem is that it stills tries click through message area:/

edit3:If it(TileOnMS) is allready in npc check why doesnt work for fishing spots and message area? Is it broken somehow?