Changing textures with a quest?

**trevius** · #1 04-21-2008, 05:31 AM

Does anyone know if there is a way to change textures via a quest command? I would love to get my Quarm encounter actually working more similar to live. Each #texture you change, he loses a head. I would just set it to change it every 25% of life or so.

On another note; it would be nice if there was a way to change NPC races via a quest. Then, I could set up a loop on a timer that adds +1 to the race every 3 seconds. Then set it to pause the quest by hailing it if I want and resume by saying "resume" or something. That would make it easy to see which races are available in any zone. Just set up 3 NPCs with each one being gender 0, 1 and 2 and then run the quest. Then either pause on the ones that actually show up, or just #npcstats on them when they do. This would mainly be useful in the later expansions that don't have all races listed in the guidebook.

Mortimus · #2 04-21-2008, 12:33 PM

I have been trying to accomplish the same thing for quiet some time now, and nothing I seem to do works.

**cavedude** · #3 04-21-2008, 01:08 PM

The Quarm event is already setup in PEQ. I know because I wrote it. NPCs 223991-223994 in potimeb.

You do not want to change the texture of a single NPC, you want to use 4 different NPCs each with a different texture. This is how it works on Live, because each time a head is killed, Quarm is stripped of all buffs and debuffs and you have to re-target him.

**cavedude** · #4 04-21-2008, 01:19 PM

Also, Each of the 4 heads have a different spellset

Mortimus · #5 04-21-2008, 01:28 PM

Ok, how bout the changing of an npc's race during a quest? or changing his size? w/o spawning a new npc?

**AndMetal** · #6 04-21-2008, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Mortimus

Ok, how bout the changing of an npc's race during a quest? or changing his size? w/o spawning a new npc?

This page in the Wiki should help with what you're trying to do.

It doesn't look like you can change the race using a quest, but you should be able to change their size:

Code:

$mob->ChangeSize(in_size)

Just execute that where you want in the script, and it should change the size to in_size (which I think is a float).

**trevius** · #7 04-21-2008, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by cavedude

The Quarm event is already setup in PEQ. I know because I wrote it. NPCs 223991-223994 in potimeb.

You do not want to change the texture of a single NPC, you want to use 4 different NPCs each with a different texture. This is how it works on Live, because each time a head is killed, Quarm is stripped of all buffs and debuffs and you have to re-target him.

I completely respawned all of potimeb from scratch. Mainly because since it isn't an instance in the emu, it wouldn't work quite the same if more than 1 group was in there. So, I had to customize it to allow multiple groups in it at once all in separate areas.

I quite EQ live right before my guild killed Quarm. We had done everything in time accept for Quarm. So, I never actually fought it on live. I will have to look into your quests you have written for there. I had just assumed that it was changing spell sets. Though, it does sound more interesting the other way lol. I must say that the quests for that zone are pretty impressive lol. That must have taken you forever!

I will check out that size changing quest command and see if it works. I was thinking a couple weeks ago that it would be cool to have an event where a boss or a few mobs all "grow" over a few seconds. Using that with a 1 second timer between size changes should have a cool effect.

And Striat, you should submit that code! That would be nice stuff to have in the distro!