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[Miss Sakaki]

I'm using MoveBetweenAreas to get rid of Sebastian and Andrei after they leave the party via a fake Dimension Door spell. A timer is set, and once it expires they go to Waukeen's Promenade, again using MoveBetweenAreas. This works fine if I'm not in Waukeen's Promenade when the timer expires - if I'm there already, they don't reappear.

How can I make sure they appear? Is there another action that works more reliably in this scenario?

[Ascension64]

You seem to indicate that Sebastian and Andrei are joinable NPCs. You might be able to use MoveGlobal(). It precisely puts joinable NPCs saved into BALDUR.GAM places, no matter where they exist in the game world. The syntax is:

MoveGlobal(S:Area*,O:Object*,P:Point*)

e.g. MoveGlobal("AR0602", "Minsc", [400.600])

[Kaeloree]

If they've left the party, you might need to MakeGlobal() them, though. I could be wrong, I'm not terribly technically oriented, as you might know.

[berelinde]

MakeGlobal() requires ToB.

[Kulyok]

No, once they're in the party, no MakeGlobal should be necessary.

I used MoveGlobal() with Xan, but it only worked when appended to Baldur25.baf(or Baldur.baf) for SoA, so you've been warned.

[Kaeloree]

So, they aren't removed as Globals once they're removed from the party? Weird.

[Kulyok]

Yeah, it's like Ascension64 said. I wish it was this way with non-joinables, too: the way it is now, Busya's RE encounter is awkward, because in the original game she escapes the area, and we have to spawn her _cre file_ again, because we can't move her death variable. Which means that her dress changes its color, and possibly her hair does, too.

[Miss Sakaki]

Yeah, I've had that exact problem with having to respawn non-joinable NPCs too. Darn Infinity Engine and its limitations! Thanks Kulyok - I'll use MoveGlobal, but append it to baldur.bcs rather than their own scripts.

[berelinde]

Thing with putting it in their own scripts is that out-of-party NPC scripts don't run as frequently as in-party NPC scripts. It might get missed. You could always do what Kulyok did and stick it in baldur*.baf.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Might be my crazy idea, but why not make sure that the player isn't in the Waukeen's Promenade as the timer expires, and if he is, give additional time to the timer, untill he isn't and then trigger the move.