|
NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 26 Sep 2004 09:49 PM |
We think we need more NPC's in game who add flavour and atmosphere to the World, specifically in the big Cities etc.......
Now writing dialogues and creating NPC's and their clothing/look etc takes quite a bit of time! So we're on the look-out for any help we can get to create them! If you know you're way around the toolset, then all the better, if not then just some Dialogues that we can copy/paste into conversations in game would be cool :)
Any suggestions or offers of help then please Post belowOne thing we might do is trawl through the website for past history/stories for bards to tell folks in game in inns etc for a coin or two. So if you've got any nice ditties, poems etc about the World, NPC's, Quests past, History, The local surroundings etc etc etc......... then please post! :D
Cheers!
- Ara |
Vives Screenshots!
|
|
  |
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 27 Sep 2004 05:05 AM |
I know my way around the Conversation tool in the Aurora toolset, and I've been an NPC clothing designer for 3 very respectable servers, as well as design a lot of stuff independently.... And most who know Daimon can understand my underlying taste in appearance.
As for Stories.... I've always been a roguish bard like character until I've come to Vives, where, I decided to just kick back and play the strong silent Non-performing type. I've put a lot of effort into writing in the past, which is the main reason behind my lack of journals on Vives... but if requested, I can see what I can do.
As for Npc's... I love to make them... I just like creating characters... if you'd like to see me fooling around with some character design concepts (look and feel) here are some links...
This was last May I beleive, the spring before this one, about a year and a half ago, right before SOU came out. |
The Legacy Saga |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 27 Sep 2004 01:45 PM |
CoolHopefully we can chat in irc and get something going :D
Anyone else interested? :)
- Ara |
Vives Screenshots!
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 27 Sep 2004 01:52 PM |
I will think about this when I have finished something else I am working on for IG .
Not sure how to build the characters at all, but happy to give dialogue and descriptions?
Sol |
- Solitaire, Wizard
- Ilyana Fiirhaart, High Priestess of Naruth |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 27 Sep 2004 02:10 PM |
| I can do most of this, the only trouble I have is with scripting. Convos, npc's and dialogue are fine though |
Elvalia - Chosen of Aros
Elrith Mellin
Perin - 'Cleric (an' drewid) o' Elbreff' Weddin's an' pies a speciarality
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 27 Sep 2004 02:12 PM |
| I'd be willing to help with dialogue. I haven't played around much in the toolset, though I've been interested in learning. I don't think I'd be that useful in that respect now, but I talk good And I love to write, so I'm willing to help with anything in that regard. |
Trishy
Macha Sparrowsong - Song is my life
Coretta Alandar - Cleric of Midoran
Dekla Debena - whatever
Not all people who wander are lost.
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 27 Sep 2004 02:17 PM |
Thanks for the replies folks!
What'd be great to get us started are some poems/stories of anything you feel pertinent, these will then appear on NPC's in game......... they can relate to PC's/past quests/general information on surroundings/History of the part of the World/or just something completely off the wall etc etc etc.........
You can either make them in the toolset (if you're able to do so). Alternatively you can just Post here, or PM me what they'd say (I can copy/paste into the toolset), what they'd look like, where they'd be etc etc etc......... If they're cool (as I'm sure they will be) We'll get them In game!
Looking forward to seeing some :)
Cheers
- Ara |
Vives Screenshots!
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 29 Sep 2004 11:19 AM |
| *BUMP* :D |
Vives Screenshots!
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 29 Sep 2004 02:39 PM |
| Hey Ara, I don't suppose you could give me the order that the HAK's we use are in could you? That way, I know I am working with pretty much the same thing you guys are. Thanks! |
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 29 Sep 2004 02:57 PM |
| Good thinking - ditto |
Elvalia - Chosen of Aros
Elrith Mellin
Perin - 'Cleric (an' drewid) o' Elbreff' Weddin's an' pies a speciarality
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 04:25 AM |
Its been awhile but I do have some experience with coding for NWN. If you guys need someone to write some scripts or whatnot I could refresh myself.
AF |
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 05:50 AM |
I had an idea, if this is of interest Ara.
How about a gossipmonger or something that spreads recent news, rumours etc. This might be a nice way at having IG information spread IG.
I'd be happy to write the stuff and update say once a week or so if no one else wants the task. |
Never argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level
and then beat you with experience.
Akril
Quinellieth. 20th Circle of the Order of the Ring |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 09:36 AM |
I'm fairly familiar with the toolset, although major scripting is far beyond me. Still I could create NPCs and their accompanying conversation trees if you'd like.
Anyways, don't we already have something like this? The Weekly Times or whatever it's called in Port Royale. I'm not sure if it's actually weekly though... Hm, oh well.
Grae |
Perin - Underage, Overthinking Druid
Farrah Centarius - I've gotta chip on me shoulder
Chandra - Desert Woman
"An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown." - Richard Bach |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 10:11 AM |
Yes I was thinking that, it would be better to update his newspaper and speech weekly as a gossipmonger ?
- Sol |
- Solitaire, Wizard
- Ilyana Fiirhaart, High Priestess of Naruth |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 11:00 AM |
| Too bad the scrolls you can scribe aren't persistant :( |
I'm The Cult of Personality. |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 11:25 AM |
My e-mail Addy is Arathon2004@yahoo.com for people wishing to create NPC's etc and send them in :)
One word of note, is to please ensure the tags and resrefs are completely custom (especially the resrefs) and not item001 etc....... otherwise it will be a pain in the arse for us to import :)
Order of the haks is:
Vives-2da-2-6-04
lisasclotheshpad
lisasplaceablpad
lisasholdablepad
doa_activateitem
bonuscreatures
cerberus
codi_glabrezu
codi-marilith
codi_osyluth
cornugon
dla_treant
faren kai
flyingbooks
hamatula
posiedon
prehistoricpak1
salamander
shrieker
smounds
spnhorror
vegepygmy
Zc3_kuotoa
dinner2da
illithidpack1
jelly
nightmare
seabird
treespawn
unlock
viper_lowpoly
wyverns
xorn
columns
codi_gelugon15
gnomad
lisasstaves
lisasholystmbol6
lisasmageitems5
bd_shipwrecks1
flowers
myconids
oriental
outhouse
place_house
tirnaog_tree1
phoenix
angel
doa_baseitem10
doa_shopfront_10
doa_farmtools_10
gel_cube
elfaltstairs
elfextras
elvencity
vives_base
Hope this helps! :D |
Vives Screenshots!
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 11:34 AM |
added to the to-do list to fix.
- Paul |
Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly.
--
"...Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good."
--
<@James42> Lawful good isn't in your vocabulary, it's on your menu.
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 01 Dec 2004 02:17 PM |
| *Gives the thread a hefty BUMP* |
Vives Screenshots!
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 01 Dec 2004 07:55 PM |
Sorry, totally forgot about this somehow... still want to chat in IRC sometime?
I've been pretty busy of late... but this weekend's my last show weekend, so I'll have lots of free time after that. |
The Legacy Saga |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 01 Dec 2004 08:25 PM |
| I'd like to see charm person or dominate person become a useful thing in this game. In the Single Player you could get through a lot of conversations easier if you had Charm Person prepared and could cast it on them (sort of like the Persuade trump card). |
- [Rob], Balthor, Jake, and Thomas. |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 17 Dec 2004 12:54 PM |
| Is the hak list completely up to date? I might want to give this a go, so I want to make sure I have the complete hak list. |
"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;"
T.S. Eliot |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 17 Dec 2004 01:00 PM |
No.
I'll prepare an updated list. |
Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly.
--
"...Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good."
--
<@James42> Lawful good isn't in your vocabulary, it's on your menu.
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 09 Feb 2005 02:09 AM |
| If the help is still needed, I could assist. My skills lie more with writing than the toolset, but the latter won't be too difficult to work with, and my designing skills aren't bad either. |
You know you're perfectionistic when you look at your player application and notice a single, lone typo made late at night and worry that you will be rejected for it. -.- |
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 09 Feb 2005 05:37 AM |
| Help is always welcome :) |
Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly.
--
"...Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good."
--
<@James42> Lawful good isn't in your vocabulary, it's on your menu.
|
|
|
|
|
Re: NPC's & Dialogue - Help Wanted!
Posted: 10 Feb 2005 08:33 PM |
| [deleted] |
You know you're perfectionistic when you look at your player application and notice a single, lone typo made late at night and worry that you will be rejected for it. -.- |
|
|
|