Introduction to NPC

[Po. Prune]

Hmmmm
I am using an explicit introduction: [{say} hello/hi {there}] to greet Megan
Restriction: Character Player must be at the same location as character Megan.

>Say hello there
Gives to following result:

>Say hello there
(to Megan)
She ignores you


If I type: >Say hello to Megan
I get the reply I have created.

Any ideas?

[Campbell]

From your command definition, the following are possible:

say hello
hello
hi
hi there

I think you want "{say} [hello/hi] {there}"

Although, if you are using a conversation topic, {say} should not be necessary as the conversation tasks add that.

[Po. Prune]

From your command definition, the following are possible:

say hello
hello
hi
hi there

I think you want "{say} [hello/hi] {there}"

Although, if you are using a conversation topic, {say} should not be necessary as the conversation tasks add that.

I changed it to: "{say} [hello/hi] {there}"
Now when I type >hi or hello or hi there
I get I'm sorry I don't udnerstand that command.

>Say hello, however, work as it's supposed to

[Campbell]

If you're doing this in the conversation command rather than a task, I wouldn't expect "hi" or "hello" to match, because you have to type "say" to activate the conversation task.

[Po. Prune]

If you're doing this in the conversation command rather than a task, I wouldn't expect "hi" or "hello" to match, because you have to type "say" to activate the conversation task.

Ohh, I see. That explains it.
Thanks

[Campbell]

If you don't want the "say" part, I guess you could always remove it from the "say something" conversation task, but that would then try to match all input against conversations, and I'm not sure if it would cause any undesirable effects. It might work tho, especially if you have a restriction that you are in conversation with a character.

[ElliotM]

You could make a specific task for [hi/hello] that triggers say %text% or something.