zone emotes

[Sakrateri]

Not sure if this is perl or has to be done in compiling, but how would i go about gettinga zone emote whenever someone zones into that zone, like on live when it says , "such and such wants to speak to you thats why i sent this message to you soandso" something like that ...any idea? thanks in advance !

[Cisyouc]

i would suspect in client_process.cpp you can do a check for a field in the db, and if the user does not have a certain, maybe quest variable perhaps? it would do that emote.

[sdabbs65]

i would suspect in client_process.cpp you can do a check for a field in the db, and if the user does not have a certain, maybe quest variable perhaps? it would do that emote.

in plugin.pl this would have to be added this is messy but a least a starting point.

undef $logon;
if($subr =~ /EVENT_LOGON/) { $event="logon";}
defined $logon && defined &{"$logon$event"} && &{"$logon$event"} && return;

umm i think it would have to be defined in the perl source also ...
thats about as far as I got so far...

[smogo]

Not sure it's advisable to do it in a quest way : quests are very much tied to a NPC, as it is. And plugin and default files are for a single NPC, even if they seem to be zone wide.

Prolly you would end up with several NPCs in the zone telling the Character.

i spose the best way to achieve result is to tinker the client_process file, and modify the code rsponding to client enterin the zone.

[Sakrateri]

Ok thanks alot guys

[m0oni9]

It may not be advisable, but I don't think that the capability for a quest called by an NPC to do a zonewide emote would be bad thing.

[smogo]

yeah, the question might be : would a zone wide quest (i.e. trigggered by someone entering the zone) make sense, in the way events work now (events are NPC relative, not player relative)

Well, the one who first gets this to work wins ;)

[Scorpious2k]

I can see a use for this. The only problem that comes to mind is the cpu overhead involved. Imagine an even triggered on 500 mobs in a zone every time someone enters it! Even if the mob doesn't do anything or have this event_zoneenter defined, the server will still have to try to trigger it.

To make it work, you would have to limit the scope. Either have a flag on a mob that says it gets this event triggered, thus allowing the rest to be ignored, or have a specific mob with a special name being the only one to have this event (it could then set things in motion by using signal and quest globals).

[smogo]

i believe we will end up setting a mask on events for each mob anyway, to flag what type of events that mob wants to receive. This way cpu usage becomes tied to what's really used.