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I don't know. Regardless of how they did it, keeping Anakin alive would really de-value the original movies. That would really take away from his sacrifice at the Death Star and really undermine Lucas' original vision. I doubt they'll do that.

Oh. It could be some sort of .menu error. Must be a typo somewhere, but I don't know what. I'll dig around.

Hmmm. I can't think of anything that would give it an error. Other than it is included in HUD.txt (to allow other mods that modify ingame.txt to work) but that shouldn't do anything.

I made a mod kinda like that, but with JA-only characters: https://jkhub.org/files/file/585-sp-character-chooser/ But that would be neat. I was always in awe by that whole KOTF-system. Just very impressive. Hard to get all the permissions you'd need to make it truly comprehensive, though.

Haha! That could be cool. I don't know...it would be neat to have a new gameplay experience. Stealth, assassination, hostage crisis, etc. Could be neat.

Ooooh...a Naboo mission could be quite awesome. What would the story be? A kidnapping? Could be really awesome.

Are there any export setting you can tweak? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the exact program you are using.

I'd agree with everyone else. It just isn't possible to display such high quality playback and get real-time editing to work together nicely. It usually compresses it so you can work with ease and then exports it with high quality. I'd export a small clip, however, to verify that this the case.

I think that is behavior is set to remove the the NPC when they leave player view. In my scenario, I'd trigger the removal trigger. I could turn around and still see them, but as soon as they leave view completely they should be removed. In your instance, I'd just confirm that they disappeared using "use list" in the console and see if the NPCs show up.

I'd include the command within the "type" task...see if that works!

I'd set their behavior state to "remove" (I think this is a thing) and it will remove the NPC when it is not in the Player's view. Also, you could use the "remove" command with each NPC's script targetname.

Yeah. I had a similar project where the map was a HUGE city, and we wanted tons of NPCs to populate the area. However, 16+ NPCs per city area did not bode well for performance. So I had triggers to remove NPCs as you left an area, and spawned the NPCs for the next area. I'd also put another trigger that respawned the old ones, just in case the player wanted to go back.

Sure! It may take a couple days...I'm leaving today for a trip so I'll get that to you via PM as soon as I can. Thanks again for your help!

Thanks @@mrwonko for your insight! I ran your provided script and it worked perfectly! Thanks! But I don't think I can adapt it for what I am trying to do. Let me provide some more specifics... So, I'm basically creating new force powers, by repurposing the Mind Trick ability. The mind trick force power is versatile because an NPC can have it's own mindtrick script. So, instead of having the player confuse the targeted NPC, I can run a script on it (like chopping of it's head.) This works and has been tested, but the problem is that this method needs to utilize multiple force powers. In the past, I've been able to setup a simple script that checks the value of the specific variable (PARM1, I think) and then determines which set of commands to run on the NPC. I'll post this script below: (force power commands removed to make the script shorter) //Generated by BehavEd affect ( "player", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ INSERT ) { if ( $get( FLOAT, "SET_PARM1")$, $=$, $1$ ) { affect ( "bob", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ INSERT ) { rem ( "Commands" ); } } else ( ) { if ( $get( FLOAT, "SET_PARM1")$, $=$, $2$ ) { affect ( "bob", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ INSERT ) { rem ( "Commands" ); } } else ( ) { if ( $get( FLOAT, "SET_PARM1")$, $=$, $3$ ) { rem ( "Commands" ); } else ( ) { rem ( "Error" ); } } } } This works. The problem here is that the targetname has to be Bob. In order for this method to work, each NPC would need it's own script, with it's own unique targetname. I'm not a big fan of this and have been trying to create a generic script to fix this. The script that you provided works, except that the commands in the script would not be executed in the same script, and the waitsignal wouldn't work, since multiple NPCs would execute the waitsignal erroneously. For instance, when the player selects the desired force power, a script will be run that sets a variable, g_forcepower to power1. Then, the mindtrick script will be applied via spawnscript or entity keys in Radient to the NPC. Then, when mindtrick is used on the NPC, it needs to check the value (hopefully global) of g_forcepower to see what power to run. If power1 is the value, it will run the specified commands. I was rather surprised that your method worked, however. Through all my experiments, I would have guessed that the value change of g_greeting would be stored only in the NPC, but that is not the case. Thanks for your help and I hope you can sort all this out!

Hey everyone! Hope you can shed some light on this tricky question. So I've been tinkering around with adding some new features via ICARUS, but I've ran into a big roadblock. I've scoured the ICARUS manual and forums and can't figure out the answer. How can I define/manipulate a variable (or PARM) that is global? For instance, at the moment, I can define a variable named test_var as a string with value of therfiles. However, that value and variable will only be set for the entity it is ran on (most likely, the player). So, if we ran a check on another entity, let's say an NPC, it would have no value for test_var What I'm looking to do is define a global variable. For instance, the variable test_var would be set as a string. Then, a script ran on the player sets that variable to therfiles. Then, if another entity runs an IF statement check on it (again, let's say an NPC named Bob), the NPC would also have the value of test_var to be therfiles. If that doesn't make sense, let me explain it another way. I want to make a variable that every entity knows exists, and how it is defined. I then want any entity to be able to modify it, and that would it's global definition. Then, any entity could run checks on that variable, and receive that the value is the input that the other entity used. For example: Global variable var1 is hello. NPC_1 sets var1 to goodbye. NPC_2 runs an if statement check on var1, and the value is goodbye, not hello. One thing that has alluded me is how to set global commands. It seems like any scripts ran via console or even in a map are executed on the player locally. How can I achieve such an effect globally? Is that even possible? This will really help make scripts that are generic and can be set to any NPC to do what I want. Thanks guys!

Played with this today, @@redsaurus! Love it! Tried out the NPC headswapping as well. Worked out great, it just looks really weird because the original model's head draws as well! So it blends both of the heads, haha! Any way to fix this?

Oooo! This sounds awesome! Nice work, @@redsaurus!

That sounds doable...may need to edit the mission selection menu extensively, and make some scripts to tie it back to the tier system...but it sounds doable.

Here you go! Poked things some more. Seems like only the specific mod I was running/building didn't work. In a simpler mod, the hud element appeared instantly (when "set player luke" was run, that's the cvar)! So this is good news! Unfortunatly, it still draws over the loading screen menu, but that's not a huge deal at the moment. This is gonna be sweet. The mod in question has TONS of redundancies and files, so when I prune some things down, maybe that will help... Thanks again for all your help.

Thanks for looking into this @@redsaurus! I appreciate your hard work. I was unaware that OpenJK had the feature in it already...very exciting! But it seems like there could be a problem. I ran a basic test: I added a new element to the hud.menu with a simple cvar test (meaning, the new element will only show if a cvar is set to a certain value). Unfortunately, the element did not appear when I set the cvar. But, by random chance, I /map'd to a new map, and the HUD element was drawn over the loading screen! (WHAT) And then it was gone and back to the original hud when the game finished loading. So it seems like the game is acknowledging the new HUD modifications, but it's not loading the hud dynamically. I think the hud is only loaded once per session and requires a manual reset (loadhud, or a new map) to set the new one in place. Does this make sense?

Oooh! One idea I had (may be too late) is the whole jailbreak HUD thing. I'd love to add more elements to a HUD .menu, but it's hardcoded, so it only looks for certain UI elements. The ability to add things that can be manipulated through CVAR checks and the like would be soooo sweet! The inflexibility of the HUD holds me back on a lot of projects!

Could you provide a few more details? Seems possible, but I'd need to know more to really help.

No need to be so harsh.

It looks like it could need a brand new model. Also, the thread has the "fulfilled" tag on it, which may confuse some people!