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[Moonpearl]

After running around dozens of maps for hours and hours trying to find the place I was supposed to go to, and of which location the game designers assumed was completely obvious, I had enough and said to myself "Instead of giving those damned NPCs such lame, useless quotes, why couldn't they have them simply GIVE DIRECTIONS?". So I sat at my desk and a few hours later I'd done it (which proves how easy a feature it is to implement). And today I'm sharing it with you, so that I don't spend hours looking everywhere when playing your own projects.


Purpose
Allow the player to ask for directions with no other effort than copying the script to your project.


Main features

• Just name the events connecting your maps as "Exit", and the script automatically searches for those connections.
  
• The pathfinder always returns the shortest way to go from one map to another.
  
• It is possible to ask for directions from a different map than the one you're in.
  
• Use along with the Keywords System to make asking for a destination even easier.

Known issues
None as far as I'm concerned.


Screenshots

Spoiler

Maps as defined in the project




Instant in-game result

Download
See my blog entry.

Edited by Moonpearl, 07 March 2012 - 09:13 AM.

[Polraudio]

This would be useful for quests that have you going all over the place.

[Moonpearl]

Updated with a better presentation.