A way to get the ref of the NPC who triggered a plotscript?

Foxley · Post by **Foxley** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:15 am

I'm running a plotscript for NPCs for things like health pickups and other powerups. But to have them spawn from dead enemies, I don't believe using onetime tags would be a suitable way to make them disappear since the onetimes are tied to the NPC ID, not the reference. So I was hoping there would be a way to get the NPC reference of whatever NPC triggered the pickup/powerup plotscript, so I could destroy that NPC reference after the powerup effect occurs. But I'm not finding anything like that in plotdict.xml. Any info would be appreciated.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:56 am

This is one of the most weirdly-documented features and it feels like the third time this week someone's needed it. Basically, a script run by an NPC will automatically send the NPC Reference to the second argument of that script.

Foxley · Post by **Foxley** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:02 am

Sweet, thanks! And yeah, that definitely needs to be documented better. Even a blurb in plotdict.xml under the #about-plotscript section would be great.

Honestly I almost never read the help files on the wiki, should probably make an effort to read through it more though to avoid asking dumb questions like this.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:33 am

Foxley wrote:Sweet, thanks! And yeah, that definitely needs to be documented better. Even a blurb in plotdict.xml under the #about-plotscript section would be great.

Honestly I almost never read the help files on the wiki, should probably make an effort to read through it more though to avoid asking dumb questions like this.

It's not a dumb question, it's a great question. The wiki is really scary and I wouldn't recommend trying to read through it unless it was some kinda around the world in 80 days style bet. Even the List of Frequently Asked Questions makes me cross-eyed.

Post by **TMC** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:28 am

This might be the most commonly asked question of all. For a long time I've been meaning to make Custom itself preview what arguments will be passed to all triggered scripts.

And of course, the Plotscripting Tutorial is a terrible place to document it; a dedicated plotdict section would be a good idea.

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 10:10 am

Woah, I was not aware of that, that sounds super helpful.