How do I control everything a NPC hears. Say if I say "Hi" and the NPC is in the range, how can I control everything it hears. Can I use Topic(), if so how?
You can't using Topic, because Topic() is used to control stuff you click in a BYOND game.
If you want to control what they hear when you use the output operator (<<) then you can't, but you can keep track of something you call yourself. A way to do this is to define a proc for atoms to hear something.
proc output(atom/A, t, mob/B = usr) A.hear(t, B)
atom proc/hear(t, mob/M) // M is the potential "hearer" src << t src.hreact(t, M) proc/hreact(t, mob/M)
mob verb/say(t as text) for(var/mob/M in view(src)) output(M, t, src)
This is a small example on how you can do a "hearing" system. It might not be the best system I can think of now, since it's late at night, so you can build off of this.
If you want to control what they hear when you use the output operator (<<) then you can't, but you can keep track of something you call yourself. A way to do this is to define a proc for atoms to hear something.
This is a small example on how you can do a "hearing" system. It might not be the best system I can think of now, since it's late at night, so you can build off of this.
~~> Unknown Person