items run scripts?

[spider661]

can you make an item run a quest script?

i saw on one server where someone had a box or something that summoned a portable banker thought that was kinda cool and it got me thinking. could you do other things with that.

i cant even figure out how they summoned the banker much less doing something else with it but would be a nice thought maybe click the item every 1 hour and summon a new item that does something else but you only want the player to be able to do it once in a while.

like in wow how you can summon spell cloth and stuff every so many days for crafting would be cool to do something like that maybe.

well anyways can it be done and how if so?

[trevius]

Scripts have to be run from NPCs. And that was my server that you saw the banker clickie. All I did was to make a new pet in the NPC_Types and Pet tables and then make it a banker. Then, I used one of the spells called "Free spell" and set it to summon the banker pet. Then just put that spell on a clickie item.

Using that same idea, you could theoretically make a pet with a certain name (I think) and then assign a quest script to it. You could even make the pet invisible and untargetable, so it is as if it isn't even there. Then, the NPC (pet) would execute whatever quest you have assigned for it to run. You could set it for certain zones only or all zones. You can also set the recast timer on the clickie item so it can only be used so often.

Interesting idea, really lol. I may have to put some thought into that...

[spider661]

to do it that way would all the players need the spell file since its being clicked from an item or can that be done server side only?

[trevius]

My banker item works perfectly fine server side only, but players will see the spell name as "Free Spell" instead of "Summon Banker" if they don't have my custom spell file. Minor reason to require a custom spell file, but I add it in mine since I have quite a few other reasons to have a custom file.

[spider661]

ok cool ill play around with it and let you know how it turned out. thanks for the help and your right it was your server so thanks for the ideal also

[spider661]

hmm sitting here thinking about it and trying to figure out how to trigger it i started thinking of using the EVENT_SPAWN but would that trigger as the player that spawned the "pet" or would it trigger by the npc spawning?

im thinking the "pet" will spawn give an item to the player then depop.

but im finding myself having a hard time thinking of how to find the player to give the item to.

and how would i make the pet invisible and untargetable? is there a special attack field i have to put in or a model that don't have a graphic?