spawning mobs for the players
 

I'm trying to set up a sample spawn group of arboreals. I have the npc ids and use #dbspawn 540xxx to create the right type. However, i thought that they'd automatically start wandering like the others in Greater Fay.

Are paths set for every mob or can they just walk randomly?

Is #spawnfix required to save the spawn points?

What would you do to make killing them raise plane of growth faction? I can vaguely understand how to edit the factions but can't wrap my head around what to do for this sort of problem :P

If i was good at graphics, i'd love to make them appear more undead, assuming editing the models they use is even possible.

Pathing is not automatic. You must spawn it on a grid if you want it to wander.

We need to change that methinks :) It would be great to be able to tell a NPC to wander, especially in open zones. We have roamboxes, but without having more control over the delay time and distance variables they are pretty limited. I once tried to make them more like grid pauses, but got sidetracked and the code wasn't really going the way I wanted anyway. I'd bug KLS, but she's currently working on a majorly kickass spell overhaul.

yes all roamboxes need is just 1 extra variable- such as pause type to make roaming truly random. But otherwise they do wonders

For some nice tutorials, check these great ones out that GeorgeS was kind enough to write (note some parts use GeorgeS' tools for assistance):

EQEMU NPC Spawning Tutorial:
http://www.georgestools.eqemulator.n...tut/index.html

Creating NPC's Pathing:
http://www.georgestools.eqemulator.n...ng_spawns.html

Both of those Tutorials are very useful, especially for people just starting out. I even still reference the pathing one when I do pathing sometimes, because I always have trouble remembering which option is which for creating grids lol.