Multiple Character Mod

[Mantar]

There was some discussion about swapping control from a PC to an NPC a long ways back. It’s probably doable, but someone needs to write the code to dump a PC’s data out into NPC format and vice versa. Once that’s done, you just need some UI stuff to make it happen. Oh here, this was the thread:

Player character switching?

This wouldn’t be trivial to implement, but it’s not impossible either. You’d need to write two functions, convert npc_to_player and convert_player_to_npc, or more likely player::serialize_as_npc and npc::serialize_as_pc. players and npcs both inherit class character, so that wouldn’t be too hard, I expect. Then you’d have to add a menu or something to let you switch, which would serialize[1] the player as an NPC and the NPC as the player, and then deserialize them. I’d start with just the seri…