Lua NPC Multiline Chat

[celogds]

Hello everyone,

I'm creating a spell teacher npc. When I say "spell" I want him to list all the spells I'm able to learn from him. For that, I need the NPC to say 2 lines of texts (as shown below). But it's not working. He only says the second line.

Can anyone help please? Thanks.
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elseif msgcontains(msg, 'spell') or msgcontains(msg, 'Spell') then
if getPlayerVocation(cid) == 2 or getPlayerVocation(cid) == 6 then

npcHandler:say("... I teach... 'Find Person', 'Light', 'Create Food', 'Light Healing', 'Ligh Magic Missile', 'Antidote', 'Intense Healing', 'Poison Field', 'Great Light', 'Fire Field', 'Heavy Magic Missile', 'Magic Shield', 'Intense Healing Rune', 'Fireball' and..",1)
npcHandler:say("'Energy Field', 'Destroy Field', 'Ultimate healing', 'Great Fireball', 'Firebomb', 'Creature Illusion', 'Convince Creature', 'Ultimate Healing Rune', 'Chameleon', 'Poison Wall', 'Explosion', 'Fire Wall', 'Invisible', 'Summon Creature' and 'Energy Wall'.", 5)

smiley_talk_state = 0
else
npcHandler:say("I'm sorry but I can only teach druids..", 5)
smiley_talk_state = 0
end
end
return 1
end

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[Mummrik]

elseif msgcontains(msg, 'spell') or msgcontains(msg, 'Spell') then
   if getPlayerVocation(cid) == 2 or getPlayerVocation(cid) == 6 then

       npcHandler:say("... I teach... 'Find Person', 'Light', 'Create Food', 'Light Healing', 'Ligh Magic Missile', 'Antidote', 'Intense Healing', 'Poison Field', 'Great Light', 'Fire Field', 'Heavy Magic Missile', 'Magic Shield', 'Intense Healing Rune', 'Fireball' and..",1)
       selfSay("'Energy Field', 'Destroy Field', 'Ultimate healing', 'Great Fireball', 'Firebomb', 'Creature Illusion', 'Convince Creature', 'Ultimate Healing Rune', 'Chameleon', 'Poison Wall', 'Explosion', 'Fire Wall', 'Invisible', 'Summon Creature' and 'Energy Wall'.", 5)

       smiley_talk_state = 0
   else
       npcHandler:say("I'm sorry but I can only teach druids..", 5)
       smiley_talk_state = 0
   end
end
return 1
end

Try this.
I did have similar problem but changing every line after the first one to selfSay instead of npcHandler:say did work out for me.
There is no delay between the msg's tho

 

[andu]

I googled this:

site:otland.net long npc chat

And I found this thing:

selfSay("first text.", cid)
wait(1000)
selfSay("second text.", cid)
wait(1000)
selfSay("third text.", cid)

Long msgs should appear like in real Tibia.
If not, this topic may help you: https://otland.net/threads/how-to-make-npcs-tell-stories.157308/

 

[celogds]

Thanks very much andu, I'll try that!

 

[celogds]

Also thank you Mummrik, the selfSay() works for me, but the Wait(100o) doesn't.

 

[Mummrik]

Also thank you Mummrik, the selfSay() works for me, but the Wait(100o) doesn't.

Wait function do not exist in tfs what i know of.

 

[celogds]

Well, the selfSay() works, but he speaks too fast. Any other way to delay the messages?

 

[andu]

local function delayedMsg(text) -- put this at the beggining of file
    return npcHandler:say(text, 1)
end


[...]


addEvent(delayedMsg, 1000, "text") -- 1000 means after 1 second

Also you can change this:

elseif msgcontains(msg, 'spell') or msgcontains(msg, 'Spell') then

To this:

elseif msgcontains(string.lower(msg), 'spell') then

string.lower will change all letters to lowercase. So, it will work even if player say SPELL or SpElL

 

[J.Dre]

Fairly certain you are looking for this:

https://otland.net/threads/how-to-make-npcs-tell-stories.157308/

If you are not, you should be. Some small changes and viola! The search function is amazing.

 

[andu]

Fairly certain you are looking for this:

https://otland.net/threads/how-to-make-npcs-tell-stories.157308/

If you are not, you should be. Some small changes and viola! The search function is amazing.

I gave him same link. Maybe author didn't found this link is helpful for him, idk.

I prefer google, you too?

 

[J.Dre]

I gave him same link. Maybe author didn't found this link is helpful for him, idk.

I prefer google, you too?

Didn't see the link at the bottom of your post, my bad.

 

[celogds]

Thanks to everyone who took a minute to reply to my topic. Hopefully it will be helpfull to others as it was for me.

 

[celogds]

local function delayedMsg(text) -- put this at the beggining of file
    return npcHandler:say(text, 1)
end


[...]


addEvent(delayedMsg, 1000, "text") -- 1000 means after 1 second

Also you can change this:

elseif msgcontains(msg, 'spell') or msgcontains(msg, 'Spell') then

To this:

elseif msgcontains(string.lower(msg), 'spell') then

string.lower will change all letters to lowercase. So, it will work even if player say SPELL or SpElL

This one was the best example. Worked perfectly for me.