NPC Editing Tutorial

[Aydun]

Hi there guys,

I want to start off by saying thank you very much for the descriptions of all the colums and such and how they interact! I love to be able to UNDERSTAND how the games working, not just how to MAKE it work .

Onto my problem.. at first.. before reading this, I was in my server I typed #spawn Dereclor, a h uman guy named Dereclor popped up, then i targeted him and typed #npcspawn create, i get the Dereclor00 was created successfully! message.. So I figured it was fine, to test, I logged out, shut down the server, and started it up and went back in .. no NPC there, when I look in npc_types he was there, then I found this guide.

I made a new spawngroup, ID =1, name=karnor. then I made the spawnentry stuff, Dereclors ID=1, so i typed spawngroupID=1, npcid=1, chance=100. After that i went into karnor's castle to get my loc, then continued to the next step and in spawn2 I typed: id=1,spawngroupid=1,zone=karnor,x=20.45,y=-24.23,z=3.75, heading=0,respawntime=120 all others remained at 0.

I went into the game and lo and behold no Dereclor, All of the tables concerning spawns i cleared again and redid this so the only entries are for the npc Dereclor and it's spawngroup, and still no such luck, I tried restarting the server everytime I made a change. I'd appreciate any insight into this problem !

Thanks in advance,

[GeorgeS]

Just finished my NPC editing tutorial. This is unique in that it uses ingame spawning, but uses my tools when needed. Read through these tutorial pages carefully, so you can understand my methods and how simple npc spawning is.


Tutorial 1 is about spawning static NPC's
Tutorial 2 is about creating moving NPC's

http://66.159.225.58/eqemu/spawning_tut/index.html

I am enhancing these tuts as time permits, so stay tuned. NPC editor is being slightly enhanced this week...

Hope these tuts. help because I've seen so many errors in previous posts on how this process works.

GeorgeS