Another cut-scene question

[Gorkur]

Hello there, I'm your friendly neighbourhood noob idiot here with a question about an issue most of you are probably tired of answering

Anyway, my problem is that I want an NPC that has appeared in a previous room to reappear and do "stuff" after I've used an object from my inventory with an object in a room.

"Stuff" includes:

Appear in room
Say "dialog x"
Move from A to B
Say "dialog y"

So far I've managed to make my NPC appear in the room and say "dialog 2", but I haven't managed to get him to do all the "scene". It's like he skips over my script commands between NewroomNPC and RunDialog (y)

Here's the script:
  // script for object0: Use inventory on object
NewRoomNPC(1, 3, 10, 157);
RunDialog (6);
MoveCharacter(1, 96, 170);
RunDialog (7);
}

I have managed to make my player character do a similar scene, though.
When I did that I just used the Interaction Editor and didn't do any scripting. That doesn't seem to work with this issue, because I get an error in the MoveCharacter command, that says that the Character isn't in the room

Thanks in advance

[Ashen]

IIRC, RunDialog commands are processed at the end of the script, wherever you place them. Also, MoveCharacter isn't blocking - it doesn't wait for the movement to finish before processing the next command.

I think the way round it is to split it between two Run Script commands, the first being:

Code: ags

NewRoomNPC(1, 3, 10, 157);
RunDialog (6);

And the second:

Code: ags

MoveCharacterBlocking (1, 96, 170, 0);
RunDialog (7);

(Look up moveCharacterBlocking to see what the extra 0 is for).

So the Interaction editor would look something like:

Use inventory on object
   Conditional: if inventory item was used
      Run script
      Run script

[strazer]

Possibly NewRoomNPC is delayed as well?
If so, you may need 3 "Run script" actions, the first containing NewRoomNPC, the second RunDialog(6) and the third the rest.

Btw, if the character should just say some text, better use
DisplaySpeech(CHARACTERNAME, "Hello!");

[Gorkur]

Thank you, thank you, thank you

This means I got it working, thanks to you