Originally Posted by
Downloader
Yes, I could keep the actual NPC on screen and just draw and hit offset, but then I would have to do weird things to the NPC behavior functions I wrote when it comes to them bumping into walls and things like that..
It is not that drawing offscreen or otherwise having their hitboxes offscreen is the issue, it is the fact that ZC erases the NPC when it goes offscreen, and I would have to write up a method to save their current stats and then put them back onto the screen after they are erased.