Zaruthustran
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Any plans to add the new core classes, such as Swashbuckler, Hexblade, etc?
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Zaruthustran said:
They're not open content, are they?
I don't think they are covered by the OGL section but what you can do is this, the scripting of new classes, races and pretty much every aspect of the system is fairly straight foward. One of my better beta testers never scripted before and after investing a little time and some questions being answers (Plus help from cut and paste 
), he is well on his way to understanding the system.
I think thats the greatest feature of this engine, it is not hardcoded and the scripters on my forum have no problems jumping in to help. Pretty much every day (CST), I am here coding and answer questions to code requests people need to accomplish their own scripting needs.
NPC Designer was designed knowing there is a huge amount of closed content that people want to work, so in effort to give this I tried to make it as easy as possible. In time, it will become even easier.
), he is well on his way to understanding the system. I think thats the greatest feature of this engine, it is not hardcoded and the scripters on my forum have no problems jumping in to help. Pretty much every day (CST), I am here coding and answer questions to code requests people need to accomplish their own scripting needs.
NPC Designer was designed knowing there is a huge amount of closed content that people want to work, so in effort to give this I tried to make it as easy as possible. In time, it will become even easier.
Rather then get into debates over what can or cannot be done, I handle it in a 3 part plan. 1. If it is covered by the OGL (Like Bloodlines and such) I have no problems doing them as time permits.
2. If publishers wish to give NPC Designer a license (As some have already done) to create scripts for it's content, we will be more then happy to take steps to giving the users of NPC Designer the very best.
3. If all else fails, give the users of NPC Designer tools to make it easier to create scripts for their own material or closed content.
The scripting is not that difficult, we have three main scripters at the moment and 2 of which had some experience prior but the third did not. In the now 31 days of Open Beta Testing they have created over 30 scripts for NPC Designer. Anyone who registers and reads the forums will find out quickly, I am on the forums everyday and answer questions all the time. If you want me to take a look at the script to figure out whats going wrong, takes me just a few minutes. I view that as being just as important as creating a new feature, because without that user.. what would NPC Designer be?
2. If publishers wish to give NPC Designer a license (As some have already done) to create scripts for it's content, we will be more then happy to take steps to giving the users of NPC Designer the very best.
3. If all else fails, give the users of NPC Designer tools to make it easier to create scripts for their own material or closed content.
The scripting is not that difficult, we have three main scripters at the moment and 2 of which had some experience prior but the third did not. In the now 31 days of Open Beta Testing they have created over 30 scripts for NPC Designer. Anyone who registers and reads the forums will find out quickly, I am on the forums everyday and answer questions all the time. If you want me to take a look at the script to figure out whats going wrong, takes me just a few minutes. I view that as being just as important as creating a new feature, because without that user.. what would NPC Designer be?
That is probably coming from the install of MS Script Control, which I cannot alter. NPC Designer's install script explicitly has it to not require a reboot. Before I just left it up to the user to determine if he needs to download the control from MS and install it but I learned most really didn't know what I was talking about or asking, so I forced the install of it when I install NPC Designer. Since then I have had zero install issues.
Note: This only happens during a full install, not during an update.
Note: This only happens during a full install, not during an update.
NPC Designer Update:
Just wanted to let those interested know we have began a hude movement to finalizing the Core race,class and prestige class scripts and testing all of the systems one by one in effort to bring some perfection to the system. We currently have but 3 prestige classes and 1 NPC Class left to code before the actual script package is completed. If you have been gun shy about getting involved this is the perfect change to download and try it out, as you can read from above the system does work.
On August 1st we aim to release version 1 since all the goals of that project will have been achieved, based on interest from users we will then look at doing version 2 and Encounter Designer. Encounter Designer is an interface that works with NPC Designer except it is focused at multiple NPC's and groups. This is the tool you would use to create a Drow raiding party and have it created with a single click, rather then design 10-20 NPC's individually. The engine is not just geared for combat but can in the same instant create a tavern full of people and staff as well.
Thanks,
DJJ
Just wanted to let those interested know we have began a hude movement to finalizing the Core race,class and prestige class scripts and testing all of the systems one by one in effort to bring some perfection to the system. We currently have but 3 prestige classes and 1 NPC Class left to code before the actual script package is completed. If you have been gun shy about getting involved this is the perfect change to download and try it out, as you can read from above the system does work.
On August 1st we aim to release version 1 since all the goals of that project will have been achieved, based on interest from users we will then look at doing version 2 and Encounter Designer. Encounter Designer is an interface that works with NPC Designer except it is focused at multiple NPC's and groups. This is the tool you would use to create a Drow raiding party and have it created with a single click, rather then design 10-20 NPC's individually. The engine is not just geared for combat but can in the same instant create a tavern full of people and staff as well.
Thanks,
DJJ
I would like to say thanks to Ralts and others at UKG Publishing, they were the first to come to me with some install issues and took a moment to get them worked out. If you had the same problem it would look like the screen had no data on it.
Thanks to their effort, we got everything tuned with the initial install.
If you have had some install issues in the past, just uninstall and reinstall a fresh copy please.
Thanks
Thanks to their effort, we got everything tuned with the initial install.
If you have had some install issues in the past, just uninstall and reinstall a fresh copy please.
Thanks
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