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Custom NPCS

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Jnick22, Sep 2, 2014.

  1. Jnick22

    Jnick22 New Member

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    Is there currently a way to spawn Custom NPCs like the bears at Maple Hills? Perhaps via lua code or starcheat?
     
    #1 Jnick22, Sep 2, 2014
  2. Felonious

    Felonious Restart Monkey

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    It's possible, but I couldn't tell you in a thousand years how to do it. IF you do decide to do it, or someone does it for you, it's recommended you go light on them since more complex custom NPCs draw more from the server.
     
    #2 Felonious, Sep 2, 2014
  3. Jnick22

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    Yes, of course, just a couple specially-clothed NPCS with (Perhaps, if possible) A speech bubble.
     
    #3 Jnick22, Sep 2, 2014
  4. Shinki

    Shinki New Member

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    I remember the HF used to do that a lot... with their guards on Liberty Mills.
     
    #4 Shinki, Sep 2, 2014
  5. Felonious

    Felonious Restart Monkey

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    I'd look for the person in the Order or former USAF/UPC that was responsible for their custom NPCs. Or the former members of the Holy Fleet, though to be honest, I don't know who did our guards.
     
    #5 Felonious, Sep 2, 2014
  6. Shinki

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    I went on a modding server, sb.zurfa.net, and they have custom NPCs there. However, the admin told me they used a program or something like that of sorts.
     
    #6 Shinki, Sep 2, 2014
  7. Hawke

    Hawke ACK!

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    Custom NPCs are very delicate; it's very code-heavy and if you screw them up, bad things happen.

    Very bad things.

    Currently, everyone who does this on the server's gone through and been trained/certified/greenlit/whatever by me.

    If you're looking to do something very basic, I'd strongly urge you to just use vanilla NPCs and imagination. It's amazing what you can do with the latter. : >
     
    #7 Hawke, Sep 2, 2014
  8. Jnick22

    Jnick22 New Member

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    Yeah, I just want to give clothes to NPCs for a place I am building. I think the spawner.npcparameteroptions has to do with that, but I cannot find anything to modify worn clothes. Help?
     
    #8 Jnick22, Sep 2, 2014
  9. Cole Ombre

    Cole Ombre Lurking Admin

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    You're on the right track here but as far as I know the only way to do it completely and safely is through a .lua code. And like Hawke said, its very delicate and can crash/borke the server very easily.
     
    #9 Cole Ombre, Sep 2, 2014
  10. Shinki

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    Which can get you into big trouble. (inb4 GabeN Banhammer)
     
    #10 Shinki, Sep 2, 2014
  11. Jnick22

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    Yeah, I wont attempt it unless I have a definitive guide/couple hours of testing.
     
    #11 Jnick22, Sep 2, 2014
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