Changing Mob Types

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Jul 30 2003, 6:40 am
Im making an rpg game, and I want it so if you talk to a guy,he asks you what class you want, and then he changes your class (type) to like soldier, mage, knight etc. how would i do this?
Jul 30 2003, 10:05 am
Creating a new mob, then setting client.mob to the new mob.
Jul 30 2003, 10:30 am
In response to Garthor
what do you mean by that?
Jul 30 2003, 10:30 am
In response to Tetra41
You create a new mob of the desired type, then set the client's mob variable to that mob.
Jul 30 2003, 10:39 am
In response to Garthor
may be annoying but could you show me how i would do that plz?
Jul 30 2003, 10:42 am
In response to Tetra41
var/mob/M = new classtype()
client.mob = M
Jul 30 2003, 10:44 am
In response to Garthor
*sigh* i still dont understand im a noob coder if you havent noticed yet :|
Jul 30 2003, 10:49 am
In response to Tetra41
if anyone can still help me, it would be easy if you would put exactly what i have to put down.
Jul 30 2003, 11:05 am
In response to Tetra41
Creating a new mob,

<code>var/mob/M = new /mob(null)</code>

then setting client.mob to the new mob.

<code>player.client.mob = M</code>


Basically what you need to do is this:

<code>mob/verb/ChangeMobType(mob_type in typesof(/mob)) var/mob/newmob = new mob_type (null) var/mob/oldmob = src.client.mob src.client.mob = newmob del(oldmob)</code>
Jul 30 2003, 11:18 am
In response to Foomer
Ok, foomer i did that but when i go to talk to the guy it says this:

runtime error: Cannot read null.mob
proc name: Talk (/mob/npcs/Trainer/verb/Talk)
usr: Tetra (/mob/characters/soldierm)
src: Trainer (/mob/npcs/Trainer)
call stack:
Trainer (/mob/npcs/Trainer): Talk(/mob/characters/clericf (/mob/characters/clericf))
Jul 30 2003, 12:16 pm
In response to Tetra41
You have the verb attached to the mob you're talking to, don't you? Use usr, not src, in that situation.
Aug 2 2003, 2:32 am
Hey Tetra, you would need some more code to back this up, so that when a person DOES change their character type it will keep their level intact and won't give them a level 1 thief when they HAD a level 700 cleric. And you don't want them to become a level 1 cleric when they switch back, do you? I would personally smash my monitor in if that happened(of course I have lot's of smashed monitor's...):).