Talking to a walking NPC without the NPC facing to your direction

[Twirly]

So I evented a sneaking system and everything worked fine.
After I have done that, I wanted to enable a backstab feature for it.
Which means when the guard is facing up and I am facing up it should show
some slash animation on the guard and trigger a selfswitch which turns the graphic of the guard in a charset of a guard lying
dead/unsonsious on the floor. If the Guard isn't facing down  check if he is facing left and i am facing left and the same thing again
untill I have all directions. BUT when I talk to the NPC he is facing in my direction again and it won't work...
Does anybody know how to fix that? I could make direction fix but the Npc is walking so it won't work with that.

 

[So fist]

don't use the on action button trigger.  Instead try player touches and put a conditional branch that checks for the action button being pressed.

 

[So fist]

Just tested it will make whatever event occur without making the sprite face the character.

 

[Twirly]

What the hell?! It still won't work...
Sometimes I don't get it srsly... Could you post the code?

 

[Muffins .org]

People here seem to have really good ideas.
I'll explain what he meant:
1: Change the trigger thingy from action button to player touch
2: Before all of the W\E you put in that event starts, put a conditional branch-
the W\E key is being pressed :do the event
   else: nothing

 

[Twirly]

Ok I will try again
EDIT:
Nope.

 

[So fist]

Wow xp sucks in this regard.  The above works fine in vx.  But xp still does the face you thing.  However in xp it wont face you if you do it as a parallel process.  This is wasteful of resources and if you are using text you will need your trigger button to be something other than the action button.  Cause every press of action will make the parallel process execute unless you have an out of some sort via a nested conditional.  Here is one example where vx is actually cleaner than xp as far as event coding is concerned.

 

[gunsage]

I'm using XP and haven't tried this yet, but here's my idea.  First calculate if the event has seen you.  If not, you could always bump the event back by saying something along the lines of ignore impossible moves, step away from hero.  Just before that, put in the animation.  Then change the event to the downed position.  The only problem here is there's no way to calculate a true backstab here because with this method you could theoretically do it if you went from the side as well.

 

[Twirly]

Well it doesn't matter now It was for my evented stealth system and I upgraded the stealth system so the guard can be only touched or action buttoned from behind...
BTW try my system it is in my sig :D (Surreptitious advertising FTW hehe)
But actually thanks for trying to help me out

 

[Tindy]

Got it.  Here's what you do:

For the guard, make one page where his Autonomous movement is either set to random or to a custom move-route.  On that page, make a conditional branch: If This Event is facing Up, then: Control Self-Switch A=ON.  Make the trigger by Player Touch.  On the next page, set it to Direction Fix, and have the trigger be Action Button:  Put whatever you want to have happen (I just did Show Animation and Delete Event).  When I did it, it worked like a dream.

EDIT: Oh crap, I didn't realise this was for VX.  It *should* work, though, hopefully.

 

[Twirly]

Thanks for the tip but I already got it working in another way