SPAWNING CREATURES! (A little weird but works)

Hey, Agetian! What a coincidence! Just yesterday I tried the Mod Studio for the first time and thought: Wow, nice. I should have installed this a lot sooner!

Sorry to hear about your stressful life - yeah, university does suck at times, I've experienced that myself.

Sure, go ahead and release the source code. Personally, I don't have much coding experience (apart from the odd VB macro), but maybe someone else can "carry on the torch".

One question though: To spawn a creature via scripting on a map that doesn't have creatures/objects yet, you first need to create a .mob file, right (a script always has to be attached to a creature/object, afaik)? How would I go about that? I'd like to spawn something in the Colosseum (AKA "The Arena"), see this thread .

 

Aargh. Fiddling around with the Mod Studio, trying to spawn a bugbear in the Arena. The spawning script doesn't work, because there's no object on that map that I could attach it to. I tried to add Spawner Support to the map, but to no avail.

I figured out how it is supposed to work: The Mod Studio adds a new entry to protos.tab (line 14576) and creates a .mob file (G_44EBEBFC_EDDA_40BF_8AAA_1CD542F1488B.mob) in the map directory (under modules\ToEE\maps). In my case, that map is Map-49-Colosseum. The .mob file is based on one from Tutorial Map 1, only the proto ID (offset 0x0000000C) is changed so as to match the new protos.tab entry. This entry actually is an invisible NPC (column 20 in protos.tab has "OF_DONTDRAW") which just acts as an "anchor" for the san_heartbeat script (column 287), "919 0 0 0". The script file "py00919spawner map_49_colosseum.py" is generated in the directory \data\scr. Its contents:

Code:

from utilities import *
from toee import *

def san_heartbeat( attachee, triggerer ):
	game.obj_create ( 14252, location_from_axis ( 498, 487 ) )
	triggerer.destroy ()
	return RUN_DEFAULT

So far, so good. But when I teleport my party to the Arena, there's no bugbear. HELP!

 

Heureka!

It works! Just teleported my party to the Arena, where a Balor was waiting for them. Wiped out my poor first level characters in a blink. Harhar ...

It worked after I deleted all those weird named files in the maps root folder. Must be some sort of cache.

Well, now I'll start working on some kind of training mod, I guess, where you can have your party fight some of the more challenging enemies from the game. Any other ideas?

 

Well, without the Mod Studio & your helpful comments on mob files etc. on this board, I'd never have figured it out - viva Agetian!

I'm willing to test new Mod Studio versions and provide feedback & suggestions. As for help with the coding - what language is it coded in? I have some experience with VisualBasic, but that's pretty much it.

 

Morpheus -

When you spawned the invisible anchor for you spawning script in the Colosseum could you control where that was spawned at?

The problem with trying to spawn something in Hommlet is you need an anchor that is actually close to the start location.

That is why I just went ahead and had an NPC join my party because it was the only way I could get an anchor close to the start location.

Livonya

 

Never mind, I figured it out.

- Livonya

 

whats an arena colluseum(screw the spelling!)

 

maybe we should have a new forum - Historical Threads, with all the old important threads locked away in its vaults