is NPC spawned

[demonstar55]

Originally Posted by Esildor

Grabbing the entity with:

my $mjarak = $entity_list->GetMobByNpcTypeID(4770039);
if ($mjarak) {

Is working fine. Is there any reason that doing EntityList::IsMobSpawnedByNpcTypeID() any better?

It does the same thing, but in code, so you don't have to worry about go through the quest system. It also makes sure the NPC is alive, since the enity list can contain mobs that are dead and will be quickly removed :P (they get removed on the next cycle)

[Esildor]

Originally Posted by demonstar55

It does the same thing, but in code, so you don't have to worry about go through the quest system. It also makes sure the NPC is alive, since the enity list can contain mobs that are dead and will be quickly removed :P (they get removed on the next cycle)

That seems silly, why would it contain dead mobs?

Also, you said in code but not in the quest system, what exactly do you mean by that, it wouldn't be handled in a perl for example?

[Zaela_S]

Originally Posted by Esildor

That seems silly, why would it contain dead mobs?

If I remember correctly, to prevent re-entrancy issues. Lots of things iterate through the NPC list, often with more than one iteration "in progress" at one time. Removing an NPC from the list at the "top level" iteration will make all the other iterations in progress stale and buggy. Much safer to flag the NPC as dead now and then remove it from the list on the next "bottom level" iteration (the NPC::Process cycle).

Because code, in other words.