Targetting NPCs in a zone

[CNKTHoward]

Hi

As the topic says, I'm looking for a way to only target NPCs in a loaded zone file.
I have the following issue:
I need to kill a mob that is spawned by a dailyquest.

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The player should fight any mobs in the zone when he enters the repeat-until loop. I change the combat distance to 500, so he can attack anyone inside. Problem is though, since he is looping, he has no time for fighting. And I can't manually target the mob, because there is another one with the same name outside of the zone, but that one is unattackable (bot get stuck).

idea: As soon as the mob spawns I'm entering battle (player.Batteling == true), so if I could check, who I'm in battle with, then it would be easy to target the attacker and then call player.fight().
// OK, that doesn't work, since it's faceaggro and there could be other players in front of me-

[lisa]

Bah this connection is annoying, had a reply all typed out and it bugged on me.

Ok short version, get more info on the NPC's =)

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			local obj = nil;
			local objectList = CObjectList();
			objectList:update();

			for i = 0,objectList:size() do
				obj = objectList:getObject(i);
				if obj.Name == "Anthony Taz" then
					table.print(obj)
				end
			end

I am hoping Anthony Taz is the full name of the NPC.

[CNKTHoward]

Well he is not the one to be killed, that's the problem. He gives us the quest. And with

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ChoiceOptionByName("(Meldet Euch freiwillig für die Demonstration.)")

I can spawn the mob needed for the quest. The name of that mob is more or less random (I think 3 possible names) :/

[lisa]

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local _enemy = player:findEnemy()
if _enemy then
player:target(_enemy)
player:fight()
end

[CNKTHoward]

I know there is a function to check if a quest is of the type dailyquest, but I don't know how to use it properly.
http://www.theromwiki.com/API:GetQuestInfo

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Returns a number of fields about a quest in the quest log

This requires me to know the index of the quest though, which I don't.

There is this function, that allows you to get the QuestName by the index
http://www.theromwiki.com/API:GetQuestNameByIndex

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Gets the name of a quest from the NPC Quest Dialog

What I thought of is looping all the quests in the questbook, trying to find a match of the GetQuestNameByIndex with a variable defined by me and then save the index variable and check if the quest is a dailyquest via the GetQuestInfo function. Since this is a little bit hacky imo, I was looking for a better way to solve that problem.

Because that quest I want to do exists as dailyquest and as a publicquest too.

[rock5]

And I can't manually target the mob, because there is another one with the same name outside of the zone, but that one is unattackable (bot get stuck).

Maybe use a kill zone?
http://www.solarstrike.net/phpBB3/viewt ... 791#p36791

What I thought of is looping all the quests in the questbook, trying to find a match of the GetQuestNameByIndex with a variable defined by me and then save the index variable and check if the quest is a dailyquest via the GetQuestInfo function.

There is a small function

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CancelQuest(nameorid)

in "functions.lua" that looks for a quest in the quest book and cancels it. It could easily be copied and modified to do what you want.

[CNKTHoward]

Maybe use a kill zone?

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<onLoad>
		__WPL:setKillZone("schaukampf_zone");

I did, but it doesn't work properly. He is still running out of the zone and trying to attack the unattackable mob

[CNKTHoward]

aggroed mobs excluded

That's the problem.

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local _enemy = player:findEnemy()
						if _enemy then
							player:target(_enemy)
							player:fight()
						end

gets any enemy, either in- or outside the killzone.

As stated before, the problem is that the character isn't attacking anything without the code above because he is in a loop and keeps spawning the mob, not attacking it.

[rock5]

I'm not sure why findEnemy is identifying the npc as a monster but mayber the default eval function will sort it out.

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local _enemy = player:findEnemy(nil,nil,evalTargetDefault)

If not, you might have to create your own eval function that excludes the npc.

[CNKTHoward]

works perfectly, thanks rock5!

[pman]

I'm not sure why findEnemy is identifying the npc as a monster but mayber the default eval function will sort it out.

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local _enemy = player:findEnemy(nil,nil,evalTargetDefault)

If not, you might have to create your own eval function that excludes the npc.

tried that, but i have the problem, that if i have not the aggro, it will drop the target, ANTI_KS is false.
debug message 36

Update: I looked into player.lua, where this debug message is printed. omg
Update 2: Sometimes the target is dropped, while the mob is killing you slowly.