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Hateborne

04-27-2014 03:20 PM

Get All NPCs by NPCTypeID

Hilariously stupid quest, maybe I'm just hungry.

Is there any easy way to pull all the NPCs by npc_type id?

I thought the below bit would work, but it seems to only pull one. I have 11 of npc_type id 12345 in the zone, but it seems to only select one of them.

Code:

my @creatures = $entity_list->GetNPCByNPCTypeID(12345);

I am using this in the default.pl for the zone and I'm trying to select three of them to start on a grid.

Pre-emptive thank you!
-Hate

sorvani

04-27-2014 03:55 PM

It is returning once it finds the first one. So it is working as intended.

entity.cpp line 856

Code:

NPC *EntityList::GetNPCByNPCTypeID(uint32 npc_id)

{

        if (npc_id == 0 || npc_list.empty())

                return nullptr;



        auto it = npc_list.begin();

        while (it != npc_list.end()) {

                if (it->second->GetNPCTypeID() == npc_id)

                        return it->second;

                ++it;

        }



        return nullptr;

}

sorvani

04-27-2014 03:57 PM

As much as I hate signals, that is the only thing that would work here

Code:

quest::signal(npc_id, wait=0 ) # cause an EVENT_SIGNAL on all mobs in the zone with this NPC type, with $signalid = 0. wait is an optional time to wait in ms before sending signal.

quest::signalwith(npc_id,signal_id, wait=0) # same as signal(), except it sets $signal to the supplied signal_id. wait is an optional time to wait in ms before sending signal.

Akkadius

04-27-2014 04:42 PM

Can do it via signals or very simply:

Code:

my @nlist $entity_list->GetNPCList();

foreach my $n (@nlist){

        if($n->GetNPCTypeID() == ID){

                DoStuff();

        }

}

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