Newbie to modding in need of help - Hommlet sign post

The whole game was written in English, HK. It's tough rocks for non-English-speaking people as far as I'm concerned. If I wanted to play a game written in some other language, it would be tough rocks for me. Not that that has anything to do with anything, but ... let the various localization efforts worry about changing that stuff if they really want to. We can't be everything to everybody.

I was thinking 'north Hommlet' or 'north end' or 'northern business district' for the north, btw ... likewise 'south' variations for the south side or 'southern residential area' or 'southern road' or something like that. 'Eastern road' or 'east castle access' for the east. They would essentially serve as fixed orientation compass points, with all the other ones filling in the gaps in between.

 

Your kettle needs reblackening, sir :no:

As for the signpost - those scribbles on the map look like they are in English (though they are barely decipherable - which is what anything written on the signposts will be). I tihnk its about effect, not actually being able to read the damn thing.

EAT AT JOES ------->
<-------- JEB BUSH 2012
^^^ Co8 RULE! ^^^

 

Bear in mind this is Sitra's request, HK, so you should go to him for details. Personally I always liked the post just the way it is.

When I refer to the naming convention, I'm talking about the way the directions read via the post dialogue in-game.

 

I never noticed the Hebrew - I'm getting old. That may be a pentacle from the Key of Solomon.

 

@Sitra, I've been fiddling the signposts a bit (making them regular NPCs basically*) and had a question about their scripts: I notice that npc.destroy is used in some of the dilaogue strings, but not all. I believe the instance in the final 'you arrive at your destination' line is to get rid of the bananaphone operator, who seems to be independant, but are the other instances actually destroying anything and are they necessary? I took them out to experiment and everything still seemed to work fine.

*This in the hope that making them not scenery objects and just regular NPCs will cure jerkstop ... if it's shown that the posts being gone in 5.8.1 cures jerkstop. They do seem to 'flow' better in the game with the green selectable circles though, regardless.

 

The thing is, I can't see where the tele2 script creates anything but the bananaphone operator, which appears to get destroyed after the 3000 node dialog ("you arrive..."). So what was npc.destroy() destroying in the other dialog nodes?

Code:

def tele2( dialer, town, x, y ):
	game.fade_and_teleport(0,0,0,town,x,y)
	game.timevent_add( bananaphone, ( dialer, x, y ), 300)
	return SKIP_DEFAULT

def bananaphone( dialer, x,y ):
	if (dialer.map == 5001):
		operator = game.obj_create( 14800, location_from_axis (x+1, y+1) )
	elif (dialer.map == 5051):
		operator = game.obj_create( 14800, location_from_axis (x+1, y+1) )
	elif (dialer.map == 5121):
		operator = game.obj_create( 14800, location_from_axis (x+1, y+1) )
	dialer.begin_dialog(operator, 3000)
	#game.particles( "sp-summon monster I", operator )
	return RUN_DEFAULT

Code:

{3000}{[Following the directions, you arrive at your destination.]}{[Following the directions, you arrive at your destination.]}{}{}{}{}
{3001}{[Quit]}{}{1}{}{0}{npc.destroy()}

 

Okay, so since I've made the post itself an NPC, and interaction with it is like with a normal NPC (green circle), I assume the destination picker NPC is no longer being created (was that tied to san_use on the scenery object post or something?) and thus doesn't need to be destroyed.

That's good, because leaving that script in there for the new post caused the post NPC itself to be destroyed, which I guess makes sense.

Thanks.