Question with #spawn...
 

I remember playing with EthernalQuest and the model number 49 for the Lava Dragon, is the base number for all the other older ones like Vox, Phara, Xygox, etc.

Is there a way to change them to the different skins in EQEmu yet?

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#spawn format has been changed, and it a lot easier to use I believe, except that class is at the end of the parameter string, but I think you can use '-' to get defaults on the other arguments.

Anyway, back to the topic. The spawn format also includes a texture argument. I tried to play with it but all I could do is spawn Barbarian females in hot pants.

Yea, i have tried a bunch of numbers for class, material, etc, and always get the red dragon...

What is the material parameter anyway?

Re: texture
 

There are far worse things than crowds of barbarian hotties in hot pants =)

After playing around with it more, i finally got it to change skins using the material parameter...BUT

The heads stay the same. Like you can spawn a #49 with skin 2 and make Vox's body, but has the head of Klan in WW

You can spawn #184(Velious Dragon) using skin 3 i think it was for Sontanak's body but still has the standard head(Vulak's i think), same with skin 4 (Yelinak), has a white body but gray head.

Question, i made my own NPC with the admin tool but it doesn't spawn. How can i get it to spawn?

From what I see in the character file, it looks like a character is made up of several chunks and the head and body are separate.
The head starts off as helmet less then serveral heads: leather, chain, plate. The body is a separate chuck.

At least this is roughly the way it works for the character. I doubt very much that beetles have that much structure. The ones with the most structure are all the characters in chequip.s3d -- that inlcudes all the player characters, gods, and some high level mobs.