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Originally Posted by Mauzen Okay sure, Ill also add that. Thats just a few minutes of work and can really be useful sometimes.

It may even be good to update the NPC mode as well to support custom playbacks as well so I hope you do that too as well.

RNPC_SetPlaybackRec(npcid, recfilename[])

Now please try and follow these ideas.

Connecting NPC's I propose to create a NPC registry system in PAWN that associates a playerid with an indexed array so it won't matter what slot a NPC gets its reference is determined by a sequential array. This will get around the trouble of the expected connection being on the wrong playerid which has always been an issue but there is more that should be done as well and I will explain some more ideas built on this idea of integrating and using RNPC with pawn.

What RNPC needs is a group connection command RNPC_GroupConnect(npcamount) it's not a very good idea from my experience to try and use NPCs dynamically the system is much easier to control when NPCs are connected statically when OnGameModeInit() is called however the function should be allowed to be called at anytime but only once.

Now that all NPCs are connected we need a watchdog to ensure that NPCs will be reconnected if one disconnects and it does happen from time to time and I don't think it is acceptable to assume that it won't happen no matter how stable things may seem with the plugin it's self there is no way to ensure the samp server it's self and NPC server won't falter.

I think all callbacks which can be triggered by NPCs should be processed in the RNPC include internally so that the gamemode will never see these messages this can cause significant issues trying to integrate NPCs into a gamemode. Furthering this concept all callbacks should use CallRemoteFunction() to call a corresponding RNPC event such as RNPC_OnPlayerSpawn(npcid).

If you are interested in seeing how these concepts can be applied I can develop a RNPC rebuild include and some other development includes such as a filterscript patch which would just cause the filterscript to ignore any NPC related callback events.