Need help with a run script

[RageBoxMan 0]

Hey yall! In short, I'm trying to get some tach to run from one area to another. There's 5 of them all with the same tag. This is the script I wrote but I think maybe it only works for 1 npc at a time..

void main() {

 

object oTach = GetObjectByTag("c_tach");

int  bRun = TRUE;

location lPath1Run = Location(Vector(327.34, 206.69, 7.71), 0.0);

DelayCommand(2.0, AssignCommand(oTach, ActionForceMoveToLocation(lPath1Run, TRUE)));

 

}

I'm still a novice at this so any help is greatly appreciated!

If it helps I'm in the upper shadowlands module and from what I can tell the tach are not obstructed in anyway... I just need them to run to the coordinates.

Edited Monday at 04:11 PM by RageBoxMan

[DarthParametric 3,829]

There are two options if you want to apply a command to multiple NPCs with the same tag. The first is a loop iterating through every creature in the level (useful if you need to deal with multiple sets of tags), the second is to call the GetObjectByTag function multiple times, each with a different nth index to grab each creature. Check the full command:

// 200: Get the nNth object with the specified tag.
// - sTag
// - nNth: the nth object with this tag may be requested
// * Returns OBJECT_INVALID if the object cannot be found.
object GetObjectByTag(string sTag, int nNth=0);

Identifiers are 0 indexed, so the first creature is 0, the second 1, and so forth. So to get the 5th Tach, the command would be GetObjectByTag("c_tach", 4). Since you didn't specify an index, the compiler is pulling in the default index 0.

In this case, I'd actually go with a combined variation so you can add a bit of randomness to things. Like so:

void main() {
    
    object oTach;
    int i;
    location lPath1Run = Location(Vector(327.34, 206.69, 7.71), 0.0);
    
    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    {
        oTach = GetObjectByTag("c_tach", i);
        DelayCommand(1.5 + IntToFloat(Random(3)), AssignCommand(oTach, ActionForceMoveToLocation(lPath1Run, TRUE)));
    }
}

Since pathfinding is pretty terrible, you may have to introduce additional delay between each to prevent them running into each other. You could probably just pad it by also adding in IntToFloat(i) in the delay value, which should force each subsequent value to increase while still retaining some randomness.