drkstardragon
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Darkness Falls and Undead Legacy are not compatible with npc mod. We do not offer support for adding npc mod to those overhauls.
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Lasher
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So, I'm using a few mod packs such as vault dwellers and it all appears to be working really nicely.
The only slight issue that I've run into is that occasionally (and I have turned down the spawn chance so that they appear very seldom) a rocket
launcher NPC will apppear. Now I don't mind that in itself but they seem to be using standard explosive rockets that wreck the hell out of the terrain.
Is there an xml edit I could make to change the ammo they use to rocket frag instead so that they're still dangerous but not a city-levelling liability?
Thank you.
The only slight issue that I've run into is that occasionally (and I have turned down the spawn chance so that they appear very seldom) a rocket
launcher NPC will apppear. Now I don't mind that in itself but they seem to be using standard explosive rockets that wreck the hell out of the terrain.
Is there an xml edit I could make to change the ammo they use to rocket frag instead so that they're still dangerous but not a city-levelling liability?
Thank you.
Hi! I put the Mod on the Client and Dedicated Server side.
What I noticed was:
1 - If you open a Coop game, for example, without a dedicated server, the "bandits" of NPCMod suffer damage normally.
2 - If you open the Dedicated Server, the "bandits" do not suffer damage from weapons, only from the electric truncheon and "zombie" creatures.
Can anybody help me?
What I noticed was:
1 - If you open a Coop game, for example, without a dedicated server, the "bandits" of NPCMod suffer damage normally.
2 - If you open the Dedicated Server, the "bandits" do not suffer damage from weapons, only from the electric truncheon and "zombie" creatures.
Can anybody help me?
I found a solution, or at least I think I "fixed it" hahahahaha
- Inside the dedicated server installation folder, at: steamapps\common\7 Days to Die Dedicated Server\Data\Config there is a file called "npc".
- I edited the "bandits" faction and added a command line: <relationship name="trader" value="neutral"/>
The result is like this:
<faction name="bandits">
<relationship name="trader" value="neutral"/>
<relationship name="*" value="hate"/>
Now I can damage enemy nps playing on my dedicated server.
I tested it with a few more friends and it worked perfectly.
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drkstardragon
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yes, you can edit their custom ammo in the npc mod files and/or remove them from spawning groups
not sure why they would have been considered allies from coop to mp dedi, havent been any file changes as far as i know recently that would have changed that, was working as intended in sp and mp
Lasher
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Thanks for your reply drkstar - I can figure out how to disable the spawn but I still can't find any entry in the configs for ammo type.
Would you have an example of the entry type for setting rockets to frag and where I might find it?
Thanks and apologies if I'm just being thick...
Would you have an example of the entry type for setting rockets to frag and where I might find it?
Thanks and apologies if I'm just being thick...
I tried in every way to run on the dedicated server, but there was no solution for the "enemy npcs" to receive damage.
They only received damage from the electric truncheon.
I spent a few hours reading the xml and came across the one from the NPC.
I'm no expert, but I saw that in undeads there was one more command line than in bandits.
I decided to add this command line to the group of bandits and see if in the dedicated group they received damage, due to not having a neutral "faction", for example.
We performed several tests on the dedicated server and spent hours playing, everything went well.
khzmusik
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I am highly skeptical of this solution. The "trader" faction has nothing to do with a player's faction. Additionally, by default, human NPCs can't hurt other NPCs (or players) when there is a "Neutral" relationship between them - so adding a neutral relationship shouldn't allow damage to occur.
I suspect what happened is that you added the NPC Core modlet to an existing game. You can't do that. It's not advisable for mods and modlets in general, but it's especially game-breaking if the modlet adds factions to the game, which NPC Core does.
Internally, 7D2D keeps factions in an array, and an entity's "faction ID" is simply the index in the array. Each player has their own faction, so their faction ID is stored in the game's save file. When you add factions, the player's ID (and thus index) doesn't change - but now it's suddenly pointing to one of the new factions.
My advice? Revert your changes and start a new game. Otherwise you'll probably find a bunch of other odd bugs later down the line.
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khzmusik
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I think DD might be thinking of the "ItemsOnEnterGame" properties (there are three) in the "npcRocketLTemplate" entity class.
However, I don't think that will work. NPCs use custom weapon items, and the "gunNPCRocketLauncher" item has a "Magazine_items" property value of "ammoNPCRocketHE" (a custom ammo type). I don't think other rocket ammo will work in that weapon. I'm also not sure what side effects would happen if you added vanilla rocket launcher ammo to that "Magazine_items" property. (There probably are some, or Xyth wouldn't have made the custom ammo in the first place.)
An easier solution is just to change the "ammoNPCRocketHE" item itself. If you look in its "Action1" property, it has two properties for damage, "Explosion.BlockDamage" and "Explosion.EntityDamage". Adjust those how you like - in this case, you probably want to reduce the block damage property from its current value of 2500.
FYI, I think the NPC Core team members generally considered rocket launcher NPCs to be "base busters," similar to demolition zombies. That's why the block damage is so high. Or at least that was my impression.
Lasher
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Ah - excellent - that's just the kind of solution I was looking for.
I don't mind that the enemy NPC rocket users are "base busters" - it was actually the freindly/neutral ones that were causing all the damage!
Thank you khzmusik - massively helpful.
drkstardragon
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Its comments like this that ensure future alphas will include npcs lol. Yes, she has 40-50 random voiced lines.
Well, as I said, I don't know much about it.
When I read the npc file, I noticed that only the "bandits" group was single-lined, the others were complete.
The only thing I did was put the same line that the "undeads" had more than the "bandits".
I did the server tests on new games, the same problem occurred before I added this new command line to the "bandits" group in the NPC file.
Enemy npcs did not take any damage.
After I added this line, it worked normally, both for new games and for existing games.
Other than that, I didn't find any abnormality after having done the process.
Maybe it's because the group doesn't have a related faction and we can't attack them.
After I put in the command line, it seems that this changed and I was able to attack normally like any other creature in the game.
I don't say this is a solution, but at least for my problem, I managed to "solve".
Below is the image of the only files I used.
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Too bad she only speak engl. and not elf.
Or at last i never hear anything at elf while i got her at NMM.
Well, as I said, I don't know much about it.
When I read the npc file, I noticed that only the "bandits" group was single-lined, the others were complete.
The only thing I did was put the same line that the "undeads" had more than the "bandits".
I did the server tests on new games, the same problem occurred before I added this new command line to the "bandits" group in the NPC file.
Enemy npcs did not take any damage.
After I added this line, it worked normally, both for new games and for existing games.
Other than that, I didn't find any abnormality after having done the process.
Maybe it's because the group doesn't have a related faction and we can't attack them.
After I put in the command line, it seems that this changed and I was able to attack normally like any other creature in the game.
I don't say this is a solution, but at least for my problem, I managed to "solve".
Below is the image of the only files I used.
I bring more information about the problem I mentioned earlier.
Again I tested on server and client, both with a new save.
Result? Raiderz expansion pack(bandits/enemies) does not allow other players to damage them, only me (server owner).
I checked a little more and decided to test by putting the faction that shows name="*" value="neutral" for hate in serverconfig.xml. The fact is that it works, now other players can damage enemy npcs.
The problem? It's just that the trader and everyone else will be your enemy too, not getting access to traders.
Score and XNPCcore work normally, even npc harley takes damage normally due to her being your enemy.
So I believe it could be something with the Raiderz expansion pack. I'm still looking for a concrete solution to the problem.
When I get more information I'll bring it here for you, maybe someone needs it too.
Hi!
So I was completely wrong.
The fact is that I can't make the Raiderz pack take damage, on the dedicated, now it's having problems on the spot also with friends.
I tested RaiderGurlz and it worked perfectly.
Looks like something with the Raiderz expansion pack
Tests are being done both with new save games and in local games and dedicated server
The closest I got was this info, all the rest of the NPC Mod is working perfectly.
Only Raiderz that appears not to take damage from other players, only from the local or dedicated game creator.
xyth
Community Moderator
Pushed a patch for A20.6 compatibility. If you are going to run on A20.6, in addition to 0-XNPCCore, please load the modlet 0-XNPCCore-A20.6(b08). That modlet is a small xml compatibility patch written by Arramus that will fix the bug introduced with the xml changed in A20.6
Hello guys!
NPC MOD need any specific configuration in serverconfig.xml of dedicated server to work properly?
I rebuilt my dedicated server yesterday, so that my friends and I could play, but unfortunately the problem continues to occur, I will try to report it in a shorter and more specific way.
Again I downloaded the files yesterday, follow the list:
1. 0-Score and 0-XNPCCore.
2. 1- RaiderGurlzPack and RaiderzPack.
What could I notice?
The order of the id's of the entities of RaiderzPack is different from RaiderGurlzPack or XNPCCore itself, what I just did was adjust them to a default order equal to the others.
It worked for me and one other friend, but the third player remains unharmed to enemy NPCs.
I'm out of ideas on where to try to adjust this on the server/local or on the Mod itself, because now I rule out the possibility that it's a specific problem with RaiderzPack.
Game Version: 20.5(b2)
Platform: PC
EAC: Off
Thanks for everyone's attention!
NPC MOD need any specific configuration in serverconfig.xml of dedicated server to work properly?
I rebuilt my dedicated server yesterday, so that my friends and I could play, but unfortunately the problem continues to occur, I will try to report it in a shorter and more specific way.
Again I downloaded the files yesterday, follow the list:
1. 0-Score and 0-XNPCCore.
2. 1- RaiderGurlzPack and RaiderzPack.
What could I notice?
The order of the id's of the entities of RaiderzPack is different from RaiderGurlzPack or XNPCCore itself, what I just did was adjust them to a default order equal to the others.
It worked for me and one other friend, but the third player remains unharmed to enemy NPCs.
I'm out of ideas on where to try to adjust this on the server/local or on the Mod itself, because now I rule out the possibility that it's a specific problem with RaiderzPack.
Game Version: 20.5(b2)
Platform: PC
EAC: Off
Thanks for everyone's attention!
khzmusik
Well-known member
Just be aware that you modify the XML files at your own risk. Once you do that, it's nearly impossible to help you, because we don't know how your edits might have affected things.
(Example: the entity_class tags in entityclasses.xml don't have an attribute called "id", so we can have no idea what you reordered, or why you believed order was important in the first place.)
My advice? First make sure you covered all the basics:
- You verified the 7D2D game files through Steam.
- You installed the latest, unmodified versions of all modlets from these forums. (If you get them from 7daystodiemods or similar, they're often out of date.)
- After putting the modlets into the server's Mods directory, you restarted the server. (Or at least restarted the game's executable.)
- After restarting the server, you started a completely new game, you didn't continue an existing game.
- Prior to joining the server, all clients (your game and your friends' games) had the same modlets, and the same version of those modlets, installed locally to their Mods folders.
You can find info on the output log directories, using Pastebin, and other useful tips in this post from TFP bug reporting team:
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