ContentDesigner:NPCs - Revision history

Cynnar: Updated with link to script standard post

2018-10-05T20:05:57Z

Updated with link to script standard post

2018-10-05T18:10:09Z

Added to paragraph with standard for scripts

2015-09-04T23:54:24Z

2013-07-10T20:38:27Z

‎Spawn Group Placeholders

2013-07-10T20:16:55Z

‎Spawn Group Placeholders

2012-02-11T06:50:09Z

‎Spawn Group Placeholders

2012-02-11T06:49:51Z

‎Spawn Group Placeholders

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2012-02-11T06:47:06Z

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 [[ContentDesigner:SpawnScripts|SpawnScripts]] are what gives your NPC's life. The emulator uses LUA as its scripting engine, and combined with spawnscripts a NPC can preform actions like move, attack, and have conversations.
-There is a standard for our scripts that can be found on this post. The post will be moved to the wiki at some point with some revisions.
+There is a standard for our scripts that can be found on[https://eq2emulator.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=953 this post]. The post will be moved to the wiki at some point with some revisions.
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	[[ContentDesigner:SpawnScripts\|SpawnScripts]] are what gives your NPC's life. The emulator uses LUA as its scripting engine, and combined with spawnscripts a NPC can preform actions like move, attack, and have conversations.		[[ContentDesigner:SpawnScripts\|SpawnScripts]] are what gives your NPC's life. The emulator uses LUA as its scripting engine, and combined with spawnscripts a NPC can preform actions like move, attack, and have conversations.

		+	There is a standard for our scripts that can be found on this post. The post will be moved to the wiki at some point with some revisions.

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	== Spawn Scripts ==		== Spawn Scripts ==
		+	[[ContentDesigner:SpawnScripts\|SpawnScripts]] are what gives your NPC's life. The emulator uses LUA as its scripting engine, and combined with spawnscripts a NPC can preform actions like move, attack, and have conversations.


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	=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===		=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===
−	Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" chance to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:spawn~~#Spawn_Combine~~\|/spawn combine]] command.	+	Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" chance to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:spawn combine\|/spawn combine]] command.

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	=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===		=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===
−	Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" chance to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:~~SpawnCombine~~\|/spawn combine]] command.	+	Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" chance to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:spawn#Spawn_Combine\|/spawn combine]] command.

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	=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===		=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===
−	Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" ~~change~~ to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:SpawnCombine\|/spawn combine]] command.	+	Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" chance to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:SpawnCombine\|/spawn combine]] command.

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 === Spawn Group Placeholders ===
-Okay, now we're getting ridiculous! You know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" change to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:SpawnCombine|/spawn combine]] command.
+Okay, so you know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" change to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:SpawnCombine|/spawn combine]] command.
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 For my best use case of a linked spawn group that contains placeholder (percentile) spawns, might be a boss encounter where the boss(es) are very rare. You could have a single spawn point where the boss is, contain the boss at 10%, while some other trash mob is at 90%. Group that with 2 other spawns on either side (minions) in multiple groups and/or chances, and there you go... a nice, fat rare spawn encounter. The options are endless.
 == Entity Commands ==

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	Psst, turn on /randomize for those spawns and watch it blow your mind ;)		Psst, turn on /randomize for those spawns and watch it blow your mind ;)
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		+	For my best use case of a linked spawn group that contains placeholder (percentile) spawns, might be a boss encounter where the boss(es) are very rare. You could have a single spawn point where the boss is, contain the boss at 10%, while some other trash mob is at 90%. Group that with 2 other spawns on either side (minions) in multiple groups and/or chances, and there you go... a nice, fat rare spawn encounter. The options are endless.

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	Now, your encounter has a 40% chance one group will spawn, a 35% chance the second group will spawn, and a 25% chance for the solo priest. Cool, huh?		Now, your encounter has a 40% chance one group will spawn, a 35% chance the second group will spawn, and a 25% chance for the solo priest. Cool, huh?
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		+	=== Spawn Group Placeholders ===
		+	Okay, now we're getting ridiculous! You know how a single spawn in the zone can have it's own "spawn_percentage" change to pop? Eg., one location could have a skelly one time, or a gobbie the next, or even a dog the next... all based on random chance and the mighty [[Commands:SpawnCombine\|/spawn combine]] command.
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		+	Well, it's true. Linked Spawn Groups ''could'' have placeholder spawns, on top of linked spawn groups, associations AND chances. Whew. Lucky for you, the spawn groups and their associations do not care what percentage a single spawn point might pop... they are focused on the point itself - not the spawn. So you can pile up 100 spawns, 1% chance each, and group them to death... and it will be one helluva dynamic spawn.
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		+	Psst, turn on /randomize for those spawns and watch it blow your mind ;)

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   /repop
 a few times to see them change!
 === Spawn Group Chances ===