NPC and loot editor - update2

[GeorgeS]

A huge update for the NPC and Loot Editor

08.20.00 - Tonnes of changes and enhancements. Now Incorporated in Loot editor is Grid Editing and SpawnGroups. Many Many features added...

A graphical editor for NPC creation (total re-write) and quick edit and reference tools added or updated.
Since the tool's scope is large, I would recommend trying it out and seeing all the changes. Remember back up your DB since changes are for real.

If you have any quenstions or feature requests - please send them here.

GeorgeS

[trevius]

The tools are all great and the new changes to this one are exceptional!

One minor thing though; it appears we are no longer able to move columns around to arrange them as needed. You can still size the columns, but it is hard when you have a few certain things to adjust for an entire zone and have to scroll from left to right to see the name and then make the change. I liked the old way where I could just put AC, STR, HPs, Special Attacks, etc all right next to each other and just adjust the ones needing adjustment at that time. But, now it seems like the columns are all locked in place in the order they are already in.

Another simple idea might be an option to lock the ID and Name columns in place so they stay on screen when you scroll left to right. This would work similar to an excel spreadsheet and would make it easier to edit the fields in any part of the list without having to double and triple check to make sure you are editing the correct NPC.

[GeorgeS]

I just added the newest version with moveable columns. Somehow they were locked before.

GeorgeS

[ChaosSlayer]

Hello George!
The latest version looks very nice.
One little thing i noticed that could be usefull - in the ShowNpc Spell list - could you add sort by ID? could come handy

not teribly important, but whenever you will have next big update perhaps you would consider adding this.

thanks
=)

PS. one more thing - in TradeSkill editor- could get the same black back ground and golden letters as in NPC editor? white background realy hurts the eyes =)

[GeorgeS]

Added ChaosSlayer's ShowNpc Spell list sort request and a few minor bug fixes.

GeorgeS

[GeorgeS]

NPC and Loot Editor
08.20.07 - Added function to WIPE spawns from a zone. This deletes all spawns from SPAWN2,SPAWNENTRY,SPAWNGROUP, GRID, GRID_ENTRIES
It does NOT delete the actual NPCs from npc_types.

GeorgeS

[ChaosSlayer]

George, I just noticed- there is a BIG problem with recent versions of npc editor - when you click COPY the window now asks you how many copies you want instead of- which ID you want to assign.

while new feature is usefull, the old one is EXTRIMLY valuable. could you please add it back?

thanks =)