Well, according to the docs:
http://www.verge-rpg.com/docs/view.php?libid=1&function=102

Entity stalk has a signature of:
void EntityStalk(int stalker, int stalkee)

Basically, you need to have an integer handle to the stalker, not a filename.

What you want to do is an entityspawn first:
http://www.verge-rpg.com/docs/view.php?libid=1&function=100
int EntitySpawn(int x, int y, string chr)

Like:

int crystal_ent = EntitySpawn( 10, 10, "crystal.chr" );
EntityStalk( crystal_ent, player_ent );

...that example assumes player_ent is valid, and crystal.chr is a valid chr file in the verge project's base directory.

Okay. There's a likelihood that either the error is triggered outside of the code you think it is, or there's a larger likelihood that the error did, in fact, change (even slightly).

What does it say it can't resolve this time? Copy and paste the error out of v3.log, and also, why not paste the map's updated vc code while we're at it! :D

This would be helpful to figure out where you went wrong.

here is my island.vc text:



void MapInit()
{
player = EntitySpawn(1,2,"darin.chr"); // Spawn the entity
SetPlayer(player); // Give control to the player
HookButton(4,"Menu"); // Make our menu callable from the map
}

void Crystal stalk()
{
int crystal_ent = EntitySpawn( 7, 1, "evil crystal.chr");
EntityStalk( crystal_ent, player_ent );
}

void TalktoCrystal()
{
TextBox("Darin:","Hey!","whats up?","");
TextBox("Crystal:","Cut the crap!","Lets do this thing","");
TextBox("Crystal:","All you need to know is space to get your menu up","and alt to put it down","");
TextBox("Darin:","So why you so pissed?","","");
TextBox("Crystal:","Its obvious isn't it","","");
TextBox("Crystal:","Your not the same","","");
TextBox("Crystal:","Change back!","","");
}

the code works now but the entity stalk function isnt doing anything. how do i declare the player. Sorry, this must be annoying. Would i write:

int player = darin.chr

nah, i had already changed that to:



void TalktoCrystal2()
{
int crystal_ent = EntitySpawn( 7, 1, "evil crystal.chr");
EntityStalk( crystal_ent, player);
}

It's got to be somewhere else.

A good debugging trick when you're not sure if certain blocks of code are being executed is to insert log() calls in them, then check the log after running.

I usually use exit() instead of log(), because I'm perverse.

crystal is definitely at (7,1)

could you give me an example of the log thing using some of my code because i haven't come across this before

thanks. i forgot that i hadn't put TalktoCrystal2 in my map. So my OnActivate line only worked with the first command. I can't believe i was soooo stupid. Thanks anyway.

There's no way to remove an entity completely from the system, but you can make them invisible, and also make them not obstruct the player.

entity.visible[whatever_the_entity_index] = 0;

entity.obstruct[whatever_the_entity_index] = 0;

'course, you can always reuse entities too if you wanted, so then you just change the sprite of an entity, rather than spawn a new one at the exact same spot as them:

ChangeCHR(whatever_the_entity_index, "CharacterToChangeTo.chr");

Alternatively:

entity.chr[whatever_the_entity_index] = "CharacterToChangeTo.chr";

1) Hm. Okay, so the Earthquake function in the Sully libs:

// shakes the screen horizontally with a magnitude of x_intensity and 

// vertically with a magnitude of y_intensity for duration time 

void Earthquake( int x_intensity, int y_intensity, int duration ) 

{

	int original_x, original_y, original_camera;

	

	original_camera = cameratracking;

	cameratracking = 0; //turn off cameratracking

	original_x = xwin;

	original_y = ywin;

	

	timer = 0;

	while ( timer < duration )

	{

		xwin = original_x;

		ywin = original_y;	

		

		xwin =  xwin+Random(0-x_intensity,x_intensity);

		ywin =  ywin+Random(0-y_intensity,y_intensity);

		

		Render();

		ShowPage();

	}

	

	xwin = original_x; //restore original camera position

	ywin = original_y;

	

	cameratracking = original_camera;	//restore cameratracking to the player-entity

}

Well, an example of how to use it would be as follows:

// An earthquake that lasts 3 seconds and shakes the camera

// at an intensity of 30 pixels offset in both horizontal and vertical

// directions.

Earthquake(30, 30, 300);

2) After you mapswitch, does your new map's script setup the entity? Or are you trying to set it up right after the map switch in your code? If you mapswitch, it exits whatever events/functions the script's in and moves on to the new map. So you need to set up all your important stuff before you switch maps.

Example:
Your event that triggers the map switch:

...

// Spawn Bob on the next map.

flags[FLAG_SPAWN_BOB] = 1;

Map("mynewmap.map");

// Nothing after the map switch in whatever this event is will actually be executed.

Your event that's called when the new map is started.

...

// If we were told to spawn bob...

if (flags[FLAG_SPAWN_BOB])

{

	EntitySpawn(4, 4, "EvilGenius.chr");

	// Don't worry about spawning Bob after now, unless we're told to again.

	flags[FLAG_SPAWN_BOB] = 0;

	// Optionally, set another flag called flags[FLAG_MET_BLOB],

	// Which makes sure the other maps don't do this again.

}

...