How do you setup the tutorial zone?

[pepsi_cola]

Cool, thanks for the info. Now one last thing, what about missing props and mobs? Is there a guide that I can refer to for this?

[jimbabwe]

i've never found an excellent guide on creating npcs, I've just taken bits and pieces from all over. One good source is the EQEmu guidebook 1.3, which i think you can download in the wiki in the server area under usefull tools. I'll give you a little rundown of what I do though.

If the mobs are already in the database search for them with #findnpctype then spawn them with #npctypespawn. If they are not in the database(this is where the guide comes in handy) you'll have to make new mobs. for that you'll use #spawn, which comes with a lot of arguments, so use #help spawn and look what all you can supply to it.

Once you have the base npc spawned, you then need to add it to the database and create a spawn for it. So you'll select your newly spawned mob and type #npcspawn create. He'll then respawn there once the zone is restarted.

From this point you can then come back to the zone and use #spawnfix on him, along with #npcedit(which is a nice tool btw, you can edit any field from the database here)

Lastly I use mySQL Front and georges excel editor to keep track of loottables, and do a little bit of npc and spawn editing.

mySQL front can be downloaded off the mysql site, and georges here
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...t=19459&page=3
the latest version is near the bottom, you need windows and excel for it to work.

I didn't really go into loot or pathing. For pathing i suggest reading the guidebook, and for loot georges has a nice tutorial on his website
http://66.159.225.58/eqemu/excel_eq/excel.html

I think that's about all for now. The guidebook is also nice because it has a list of zones,skill,materials,npc model types, and classes.

If you have any other questions hit me up in irc.

edit: as for props, some are race models, then have a bodytype set so they're unselectable, others (which i just found out the other day) are doors. How you set the door ones up I'm not sure.

edit2: lastly if any of those #commands don't work try using #help and searching for one of the words in the command, i might have gotten some of the word orders backwards. so #help npc will give you all of the commands with the word npc in it. I use #fixnpc as well sometimes as a visual reference for materials, then i just manually use #editnpc texture 1 to set the material for example.

[pepsi_cola]

Great! Now I can begin on reconstructing the tutorial. (Just something to do to kill time...)

[jimbabwe]

oh and if you change a spawn after youv'e #npcspawn created it, you need to #npcspawn update it.

edit: and the default respawn time is like 12 minutes, so you may want to change that too. ok, no more edits!

edit2: ok i lied. check out #dbspawn as well. I forget what all i do anymore, been a few weeks since i've done any editing and i'm still kind of new at it myself.

[pepsi_cola]

I am having some trouble trying to get an NPC to say something. To be specific, I'm trying to set up Rashere, the soulbinder. What I did is the following:

1) I created a folder named 'tutorialb' in the quests folder.
2) Then I created a perl script for Rashere named '3435973906.pl' (I used his ID because I could not get his name to work as the script name, I tried 'Rashere.pl', 'Rashere_Al-Ayahd.pl', and 'Rashere_Al-Ayahd00.pl'.)

When I hail the npc, nothing happens. Is there something that I am missing?

I tried using another ncp, Arias, and still nothing. I even created a generic 'default.pl' in which all npcs should use, and still nothing happens when the npcs are hailed.

[fathernitwit]

before you spend too much time on the NPCs.. give this eqbuilder output a try:
http://www.projecteq.net/fathernitwit/tutorialb.zip

I havent tried it, but it may work.

[pepsi_cola]

I used the files you provided, and updated my database. That helped alot. Now I don't have to reposition the NPCs. It seems that there are some NPCs missing like the soulbinder and such. But, I can't seem to get none of the quest dialogues to work at all. I must be missing something...