I'm probably going to get flamed for this... But...
Driller,
Have you thought about packaging your mod and setting it up as a distribution on IGN's NWN Vault? With only 50 ports available, and most every night the damn place is packed, having other mods that follow your style could greatly improve the community. I for one cuss at you for making an addicting mod and then it either being down or full.
If given the opportunity, I would launch one to compliment BSK. Actually, is there a way to span players over multiple servers? I think that would rock if you could cluster them that way... I have seen "gateway" servers but never really looked hard at them.
Ok flaming over (sorry i couldn't resist) nah, we'd prefer to have 1 near-perfect BSK (if only the celestial prostitutes, that would be... wow) that 300 crap imitations.
Pretty Fly White Guy wrote:FLAMES UPON YE! BURN HEATHEN, BURN!
Ok flaming over (sorry i couldn't resist) nah, we'd prefer to have 1 near-perfect BSK (if only the celestial prostitutes, that would be... wow) that 300 crap imitations.
Ok then... What scripts are you using for encounter generation? I like how it is all over the place, and random. Since I am sitting here at work and do not have access to my notes, I can't tell you what I'm using off the top of my head. It comes with a spiffy little windows based tool... I -THINK- it's spawn waypoint generator... but I'm not sure.
Then the town portal scrolls are cool too. I pulled your script from IGN in regards to dynamic naming. I thought it was really slick...
Oh no... wait...
The HUGE question... the question of all motherloaded questions...
How do you get it to save player location data through reboots and crashes... I can not BEGIN to tell you how impressed by that I am....
If you want anything to say beyond resets and what not you need to use campaign variables. You can use them for pretty much anything you wish but there is a limit to the size and you need to be careful when reading them in. The NWN Lexicon is fairly helpful in explaining them.
First, don't use the Bioware functions Set/GetCampaignLocation() to store your player location, it is bugged.
What you need to do is convert your locations to strings and save and retrieve them with Get/SetCampaignString(), then just parse the string and reconstruct the location.
Look in "x0_i0_position" if you want to learn how to do this, the function is called string LocationToString(), or download one of many versions that I am sure is in the vault.
-driller
TheBlackSage wrote:*Feels the burn*
Ok then... What scripts are you using for encounter generation? I like how it is all over the place, and random. Since I am sitting here at work and do not have access to my notes, I can't tell you what I'm using off the top of my head. It comes with a spiffy little windows based tool... I -THINK- it's spawn waypoint generator... but I'm not sure.
Then the town portal scrolls are cool too. I pulled your script from IGN in regards to dynamic naming. I thought it was really slick...
Oh no... wait...
The HUGE question... the question of all motherloaded questions...
How do you get it to save player location data through reboots and crashes... I can not BEGIN to tell you how impressed by that I am....
The trailers and interviews I've seen have said that you can drop all your cripting and wotnot into the new NWN2 toolkit and it's just supposed to "work". Do you know if that is the case for that code or will it even be needed in NWN2?
Just pondering,
~The Black Sage (Hanging out with Pinky and the Brain)
I am not sure, but I am assuming that they didn't fix any of the old bugs NWN had.
-driller
TheBlackSage wrote:Now here's the kicker...
The trailers and interviews I've seen have said that you can drop all your cripting and wotnot into the new NWN2 toolkit and it's just supposed to "work". Do you know if that is the case for that code or will it even be needed in NWN2?
Just pondering,
~The Black Sage (Hanging out with Pinky and the Brain)
Heh... I asked driller the same thing years (maybe one, maybe two) ago when BSK became suddenly offline for a looong time... I offered hosting it here, in Europe. I don't remember if he answered me, but since I'm not hosting BSK now I suppose that I get no answer or the answer was "no".
But I can understand him. BSK is great and yes, it is preciousss... The only thing I hope for is that if driller ever becomes bored with BSK, he will upload itto the Vault for ppl like me, who could learn something usefull from it
