Getting a creature to accompany the party between areas?

[temnix]

How to do that? Let's say I have a doggie and I want him to follow the party to every map.

[lynx]

via the startrek suicide box.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Nope. The action 291 is used for this mostly.

[Ardanis]

MakeGlobal() + MoveGlobalObject(). Note that you're limited to one actor per DV/scripting name, so you can't really spawn a pack of identical dogs and make them all follow you between areas.

[temnix]

But where would the actions go, in what script? I don't want to edit all area scripts to put a condition there that if a global does not equal... then moveglobalobject.

 

By the way, I accidentally discovered that MoveToObjectFollow sometimes lets the creature go with the object to another area. Not across maps, but between floors. One time it came out of the house with me, too. This isn't reliable, though.

[Magus]

baldur.bcs

[lynx]

Non-master areas are traversible just fine, that's how Sarevok follows you.

[Jarno Mikkola]

baldur.bcs

That's usually the place yes... but you should also just use the .cre's override script, for this thing, and not the thing that handles everything in the game and your mother.

[temnix]

What would be the Object for those actions? The death variable thing?

[Ardanis]

Yes. It may or may not be possible to use LastSeenBy() etc. (no idea, never tried), but I find it too fragile to consider.

[temnix]

Can you please repeat what you said about those variables? I can't find that topic.

[Ardanis]

I assume you mean this http://gibberlings3.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=28274

[temnix]

Yes, exactly. Thank you.