How to get a proc to work automatically

ID:2201048
 
Jan 15 2017, 5:11 pm
Code:
//This is a verb that calls the proc to test it... it works perfectly when //called

mob/NPC/verb/Talk()
    set src in view(3)
    Conversation()

//This is the proc I want to work.

mob/NPC/proc/Conversation()
    set src in view(5)
    if (ckey = 0)
        var/Adlib
        while(src in view())
            RandConvo()
            Adlib = MasterOption
            view() << "[src] : [Adlib]"
            sleep (100)



mob/NPC/var
    adlib1
    adlib2
    adlib3

var
    Option1
    Option2
    Option3
    MasterOption


mob/NPC/proc/RandConvo()
    Option1 = rand(1,100)
    Option2 = rand(1,100)
    Option3 = rand(1,100)
    if  (Option1 > Option2 && Option1 > Option3)
        MasterOption = adlib1
    else if (Option2 > Option1 && Option2 > Option3)
        MasterOption = adlib2
    else if (Option3 > Option1 && Option3 > Option2)
        MasterOption = adlib3

//This was my guess on how to get the proc to work by itself... however, 
//this didn't work


mob/NPC/proc/NPCNear()
    if(src in view(5))
        Conversation()
    else return 1

// And this is one of my NPC along with his adlibs.

mob/NPC
    DrugDealer
        icon = 'DrugDealer.dmi'
        adlib1 = "Damn, business is good!"
        adlib2 = "These streets don't pay me enough."
        adlib3 = "Not a bad day to be hustlin"


Problem description: I made up a proc to allow NPC's to say 3 random sentences every 45 secs if I'm nearby... So far it works if I call it by a verb, but I don't know how to call a proc without a verb (so it's always active)


Jan 15 2017, 5:36 pm
You'd either want to make it a loop, or more ideally, trigger it within Move() when a player moves into view of the NPC.

mob/player/Move() // Assuming your players are their own type.
    . = ..()
    var/mob/NPC/found_npc = locate() in view(src)
    if(found_npc)
        if(!found_npc.conversating) found_npc.Conversation()


Now you'd want to add a 'conversating' variable to the NPC that gets set to 1 when the loop is active and 0 when it's become inactive. That'll prevent the loop from being activated multiple times.
Jan 15 2017, 10:28 pm
 
mob/proc/Girltalk()
    if(src.player)
        for(var/mob/Npc/M in view())
            if(M in get_step(5,src.dir))
                spawn(20)
                    switch(rand(1,4))
                        if(1) view()<<("Stole his girlfriend and put her in a bag!")
                        if(2) view()<<("I got bread come buy some!")
                        if(4) view()<<("What you buying.....")


Don't know if it might work for yah just trying something :)