Question on models /textures

[provocating]

Just curious when making an NPC, can you control anything other than gender, race and texture ? Can you control stuff in their hands and such ? I am going by the old guide in PDF format.

[erik_llewellyn]

You sure can. Follow http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=CategoryCreateNPC and at the bottom it shows you how to add an NPC in-game with items in primary and secondary slots.

You can also use Georges Tools http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32282 and add just about anything to your NPC after you have made him and used "#npcspawn create" to add it into the db.

[provocating]

Oh crap, I did not know the plus sign in George's tools did anything.

[provocating]

Going to try to ask this in the same topic, should be an easy question. What is the general rule on making certain race sizes ? Like is a Vah-Shir a 6 or 8, a gnome a 4 or 5 ?

[wolfwalkereci]

SELECT distinct race, size
FROM
npc_types
WHERE (race >= '1' AND race <= '12') AND (size >= '3' AND size <= '9')
ORDER BY race ASC;


Would just have to poke in race= for iksar, vah-shir and drakin if you needed that info.
On my test db this returned interesting values so I inserted id in the select line so I could go check out what each odd sized npc was doing.
I limited my search to sizes between 3 and 9 because I remember reading on the wiki or a post how short races should be around size 3 and I know there are some custom npc in the stock peq db with size values greater then 15 and did not think I would see any large race over size 9.

Interesting post, gave me a chance to google up sql stuff and figure out how to do this search. Might not be useful or the best way but at least I learned something, hope it helps you.

[provocating]

I am sure it will help me. Hopefully I will have some time today to do some more research.