/**
* Basic npc making
* October '01 by Avelan
*/
#include "defs.h"
#define TESTNPC "/d/learning/school/characters/butterfly"
inherit ROOM_OBJ;
object butterfly;
void setup(){
set_zone("npc_school");
set_short("npc room");
set_light(100);
set_long("This room explains how to clone an npc"
" into a room using a file at every reset if there"
" isn't one present already. 'More here' to see how"
" it works. Here you can also 'more' the npc"
" itself and see how it is coded. It is"
" basically the same as the one in the previous"
" room but it also moves around the npc school"
" and it has it's own file.\n");
/* No add_items here to make the code a bit easier to
* read.
*/
add_exit("forward", NPCSCHOOL+"npc_school03","path");
add_exit("back", NPCSCHOOL+"npc_school01","path");
} /* setup() */
/* reset() is called at every reset of the room.
* The if() statement checks if there is no butterfly
* present at reset and if so, it clones one and
* moves it to this object.
* So, TO is defined to be this_object() and
* TESTNPC, as you can see at the top, is defined to
* be /d/learning/school/characters/butterfly.c
* The string in move() is the message to
* use when moving the butterfly in here.
*/
void reset(){
if(!butterfly){
butterfly = clone_object(TESTNPC);
butterfly->move(TO,"$N flies in from somewhere.");
}
} /* reset() */
