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Yes, they no longer disappear. The big change for v2.0 is that NPCs are now persistent entities across maps. They can travel to any map so it would be unusual for them to disappear from the map entirely. The way I handle bed-time routine is to gate the transfer event to their bedroom to prevent the player from entering at night.

NPC coordinate reference is not really within the scope of the plugin but you should be able to do that easily with a controller parallel event. You can use this script in a conditional branch:

$gameMap.event(EVENT_ID)?.x === X && $gameMap.event(EVENT_ID)?.y === Y

EVENT_ID → the event’s ID on the map
X → event's X coordinate
Y → event's Y coordinate

Maybe I'll add this to a plugin command in the future.

Hope that helps!

FragmentedCoder18 days ago

I have two questions to this, how would gate the transfer event from the player? I have tried a lot of different ways but it also gates the event using the transfer point.

That was the way I handled the checks before, but I don't know what the event id would be for any NPCs when they enter the map at random times? Is there any way you can query the NPCs for their event ID? Right now it just crashes when other events look for the NPC event ID, and it wrong.

BitQuest Studio18 days ago

The simplest way would be to use the switch that turns on when the NPC is at home and variable values for time that corresponds to what you want their bed time to be, both in conditional branches.

And yes, I didn’t think of that. The script won’t work because the event ID would be different since they are being spawned. I’ll add a plugin command for this in the next update.

BitQuest Studio18 days ago

I've added this plugin command that should get you what you need. Please update to new version :)

FragmentedCoder17 days ago

This is so awesome! I can't wait to test it out man!

I know that I must be a bit annoying by now, but I have a request regarding the gating of the events bedroom, I have tried a few ways, but I cannot get it to work, do you mind sharing a screenshot of the way you do it?

Thank you for everything!
You are a awesome developer!

BitQuest Studio15 days ago

No worries at all! That's what I'm here for. Do you want to email me your project files and I can take a look at the event gating? bitqueststudio at gmail dot com. If it requires any tweaking of the plugin, I'll be able to do it directly in your project files.

FragmentedCoder7 days ago (1 edit)

I got it too work, but I encountered a small issue with the way NPCs use events to transfer between maps, that I hope you can help with. When a NPC is moving inside a room or a home, I normally use a roof tile (A black box tile with wood, see image attached) Inside to indicate a door, I then add a event without any graphics, set it to "Same as Character", and "Player Touch", add the "npcConnector:true" note then add some door sound, and the transfer. Bam! There is your door! The problem is that only the player can use the door, the player walks into the doors spot and the event works as indented, and the player is transferred into the hallway. Could you please allow the NPCs to use exits, I think the problem is that the NPC can't move into the spot of the door, and does not check if they can interact by touch.

Thank you so much, that would be the last need update from me. xD

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