Changing BASS template so that character does not turn when looking at himself.

[GreenBoy]

Ok been trying this for a while now.   In the original BASS template if you look at any character you turn towards him/her which is great but that also means that when you turn when you look at yourself  :o

Yes thats right so escentially you end up facing up whenever you look at yourself.  Which is vaguely annoying. 

Ive tried using getlocationname so I can seperate Ego from other characters but it envolves strings which for the most part I know nothing about.  Ive been treating it like an int but that doesnt seem to be going so well.

Heres my code from the Global Script.

Code: ags

            if (button == RIGHT)		// Right button, deafault to MODE_LOOK
            {
              SetCursorMode (MODE_LOOK);
              if (type != 2)	// 2 is character              
	      {
	           FaceLocation(GetPlayerCharacter(), mouse.x, mouse.y);
	      }	
		else if (type == 2)
		{
		        String playerornot = Game.GetLocationName (mouse.x, mouse.y);
			if ( playerornot != EGO)
		        {
			        FaceLocation(GetPlayerCharacter(), mouse.x, mouse.y);
			}
		}
            }
            else if (button == LEFT)	// Left button, MODE_USE (or MODE_TALK on character)
            {
              if (type == 2)	// 2 is character
                SetCursorMode (MODE_TALK);	// talk to character
              else
                SetCursorMode (MODE_USE);	// use anything else
            }
          }
        }
      }
      ProcessClick(mouse.x, mouse.y, GetCursorMode() );
      SetCursorMode(MODE_USE);
		}
  
  }
}

And heres what AGS says about my code:

Error (line 217): Type mismatch: cannot convert 'String*' to 'int'

I think I'm way off.  So any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

[Gilbert]

Since playerornot was declared as String and the EGO is an int definition for the character's number, no wonder you got that error.

Try changing the line:

Code: ags

if ( playerornot != EGO)

into

Code: ags

if ( playerornot != cEgo.Name)

Alternatively, a considerably much better method is to change:

Code: ags

String playerornot = Game.GetLocationName (mouse.x, mouse.y);
if ( playerornot != EGO)

to just

Code: ags

if (Character.GetAtXY(mouse.x, mouse.y))

[GreenBoy]

Cool thanks a lot.  No wonder I was having trouble. 
Ill try that now.

This might take a while for me to get used to.

[EDIT] Yep that did the trick.  Thankyou very much Gilbot.