Changing your PC to a party member?

[Reztea 34]

Has anyone found this out yet? I'm currently restarting my Atris project, however, I need to learn how to change my PC into one of the party members, like how the PC turns into Mira when she is about to face Hanharr? Or when your PC changes to Atton to face Sion? Get my drift? Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

[JCarter426 1,215]

The function is:

// 11: Switches the main character to a specified NPC
//     -1 specifies to switch back to the original PC
int SwitchPlayerCharacter(int nNPC);

It looks simple enough but there are a lot of eccentricities that can cause the game to crash, and I don't entirely remember what they are. If you want to look at some examples of it in use, it can be found in my Toolbox in the script jc_party.

[Reztea 34]

Thanks for the quick reply! So if I wanted to switch to the original PC, the script would look like this?

 

// 11: Switches the main character to a specified NPC
//     -1 specifies to switch back to the original PC
int SwitchPlayerCharacter(int n-1);

 

Sorry, it's been so long since I've even TOUCHED KotOR.

[Fair Strides 509]

It looks simple enough but there are a lot of eccentricities that can cause the game to crash, and I don't entirely remember what they are. If you want to look at some examples of it in use, it can be found in my Toolbox in the script jc_party.

 

Seeing you link to the mediafire made me wonder and double-check something: was there a particular reason this never got uploaded to DS? I forget if you might have mentioned something in the LF thread or not.

[JCarter426 1,215]

Thanks for the quick reply! So if I wanted to switch to the original PC, the script would look like this?

 

// 11: Switches the main character to a specified NPC

//     -1 specifies to switch back to the original PC

int SwitchPlayerCharacter(int n-1);

 

Sorry, it's been so long since I've even TOUCHED KotOR.

 

No, it would be more like:

 

 

void main() {
 
int nNPC = 1;
 
SwitchPlayerCharacter(nNPC);
 
}

 

 

Seeing you link to the mediafire made me wonder and double-check something: was there a particular reason this never got uploaded to DS? I forget if you might have mentioned something in the LF thread or not.

I didn't want to upload an old version from years ago and I've been too lazy to update it to version 1.3. I meant to update it... almost exactly a year ago now. Before LF was down and I didn't have to link directly to MediaFire. I'm going to get to it in the near future, though!

[Reztea 34]

The function is:

// 11: Switches the main character to a specified NPC
//     -1 specifies to switch back to the original PC
int SwitchPlayerCharacter(int nNPC);

It looks simple enough but there are a lot of eccentricities that can cause the game to crash, and I don't entirely remember what they are. If you want to look at some examples of it in use, it can be found in my Toolbox in the script jc_party.

 

Wow, that's a really handful tool. One more thing (Last thing aswell) May I see an example script if I wanted to switch to Mira, how would it look? As kind of a foundation script.

[JCarter426 1,215]

Mira is #7, so it would be like:
 

void main() {

SwitchPlayerCharacter(7):

}

[Reztea 34]

Script worked perfectly! I can finally continue this mod with Atris! Many thanks

[Kexikus 995]

No, it would be more like:

void main() {
 
int nNPC = 1;
 
SwitchPlayerCharacter(nNPC);
 
}

 

It should be

int nNPC = -1;

right? 1 would be the first party member (whoever that is)

[DarthTyren 103]

It should be

int nNPC = -1;

right? 1 would be the first party member (whoever that is)

 

Actually, it would be the second, 0 would be the first - either Bastila or Atton, depending on which game.

 

But yes it would in fact be -1 as stated in the function description.

[bead-v 251]

Or you can just use NPC_* constants:
NPC_PLAYER
NPC_ATTON
NPC_BAO_DUR
NPC_CANDEROUS
NPC_G0T0
NPC_HANDMAIDEN
NPC_HK_47
NPC_KREIA
NPC_MIRA
NPC_T3_M4
NPC_VISAS
NPC_HANHARR
NPC_DISCIPLE

 

Wow, I even got the order right without checking
 

[JCarter426 1,215]

It should be

int nNPC = -1;

right? 1 would be the first party member (whoever that is)

Oh, yes. -1 is the player. Move along.