Is my #makepet command broken or is it just me?

[Aerewen]

actually just check out the spell list on alla, pretty sure that has a list of the level of pet for each spell.

[John Adams]

I think he's wanting a pet per level. Allah's should show what's currently in the table: npc_types, id's 1-999 (1000 starts Qeynos NPCs). All the pets for all the legit levels are in ther now, too. But if you want more, gotta make them yourself.

[Shadow-Wolf]

Are you guys sure about this? last time I was running my emu server(a long while back) the #makepet command allowed you to make pets based on what information you gave the command.

[John Adams]

Good question. I am not sure of anything, 100%. I just go by what I read on the forums or in game, or what I interpret the C++ code to say.

This is from command.cpp:

command_add("makepet","[level] [class] [race] [texture] - Make a pet",50,command_makepet)

Which makes your statement correct. But, when you type #makepet in game with no params, the Usage says:

c->Message(0, "Usage: #makepet pet_type_name (will not survive across zones)");

And I can say with confidence, lately, if I do not enter the exact name from npc_types table for the pet, linked to the Pets table, I get told cannot find a pet of that type. Not really sure what's up with that.

[candlesaccount]

i haven't abandoned this post or idea just been busy at work (gotta love the holidays)

[Cripp]

try

#makepet MonsterSum5

maybe this works... would test myself but i havent really logged on my own server the past week..

[John Adams]

Yes Cripp, that does work, if you have a matching Pet name in the Pets and NPC_Types tables. I think the problem is, the #makepet command shows 2 different syntaxes.

Typing just #makepet alone says to do it the way you suggest (and the way that works), #makepet [creature_type].

You say, '#makepet'
Usage: #makepet pet_type_name (will not survive across zones)

Typing #help makepet shows a much different syntax, and does not work any longer.

You say, '#help makepet'
Available EQEMu commands:
#makepet [level] [class] [race] [texture] - Make a pet
1 command listed.
You say, '#makepet 50 1 73 1'
Unable to find data for pet 50

Following this second syntax, I believe the 1st parameter is trying to be compared to something in the Pets/npc_types tables, and failing the lookup. The rest of this old syntax is ignored, apparently.


PS: I actually had to create MonsterSum5 myself to get a level 70 pet to show up. I think they stopped at MonsterSum4 in PEQ, which is a level 60 pet.