Content creation: Items

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:18 pm

The abm_ prefix is at teh Ronana's request; if he says we can lose it, that's fine by me.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:32 pm

The abm_ prefix stays, but if you want to organize tags based on toolset catigory, thats fine. It doesn't matter to me, I could find the items just as easy with either method, and toolset catigories are totally customizable.

We don't want these to get too long, due to script requirements. Just make sure no item has a tag of more than 28 characters, and we should be good to go.

indio · Post by **indio** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:59 pm

Sounds good. Will leave it in your capable hands Rusty. Whatever you think works best.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:16 pm

Though, maybe abr_ would be better? For Alfa Base Resource? Since we aren't really thinking of it is a "mod" anymore.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:10 am

I'm in the process of creating a toolset plugin to auto-generate all wands, scrolls and potions based on available spells. It looks like its very possible. If its easy to do, I could do the same for melee weapons with various properties.

ç i p h é r · Post by **ç i p h é r** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:09 pm

BTW, what prefix are we going with, Ronan? acr? abm? or abr? The latter seems most refined to me.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:21 pm

ALFA-wide poll.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:30 am

I guess I'd prefer ABR if no one has made a lot of stuff yet. I'm still working on the wand/potion/scroll generation plug-in.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:35 am

Is there any merit in matching the length of the base resource tag to the length of the individual NWN2 server tags; so "AR_" or even "00_" ?

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:48 am

I really don't care so much. We sort of got in the habit of 3-digits from ALFA1, but it doesn't really matter to me. Inny is talking about re-drawing reginions which may end up with over 99, though I don't see the point in regions to begin with... Meh.

ç i p h é r · Post by **ç i p h é r** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:45 pm

Let's go with ABR then.

We're just too far down the path with ACR to even consider changing it if we wanted to. We could change server side script conventions to use a two digit ID as a prefix instead of 3, but all things considered, it may be best to be flexible and keep it at 3.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:59 pm

Hmm, yeah, and I forgot we may do sub-region servers. Like 04a, 04b, etc. So definitely best to leave it as 3 characters.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:08 pm

ABR_ it is.

Wiki updated. Check for anything missing...

N.B. The list is meant to be all-inclusive; we will not need all of these properties in the ABR, nor will they always be appropriate in unique server custom items, where a name may suffice. No harm in having them, though.

For those joinining the item creation effort, there will be an easy-reference Excel file.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:08 pm

We need to get builders to start submitting items and things like... last week. Trouble is, we have no FTP, and I've yet to decide on a spec for item scripts. Sorry about that, I just now got the DM client working, and I had to test if a few Aurora "features" had made their way from NWN2 to NWN1.

Unfortunately I'm going to be busy this weekend, and I think the only person who read & understood the sort of events we hope to be able to capture on items was Cipher... But we can still start collecting generic NWN2 OnItemActivated scripts, and adapt them to our custom events system when we've figure out the best way of doing things.

ç i p h é r · Post by **ç i p h é r** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:39 pm

It may not be a while until builders shift their focus from building areas to building content, but it would be good to at least coordinate with HDMs on this early on. I don't know how many people on server teams read these forums.