Stuck with creating a new NPC - tutorial's a bit complicated

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I have created a .d file for my character with joining dialogs and all that stuff. Using WeiDU, I just turned it into a .dlg file.

Now I have a .cre file and a .dlg file. What are the next steps ? I'd like to test my "mod" out and see if it works on my computer, but I can't understand how to do it. Please, bear in mind that I never coded before, and what might seem easy to you could provide very difficult for me. Tutorials, for instance, usually seem to take for granted that you'll know what to do from now on. Well, I don't

Could someone explain me, really nice and slow, as to a half-witted 5 year old, what I should do with these files and how I could put them into my game (for instance, how I could make this NPC appear in Irenicus Dungeon, next to the cages, so I can talk to him quick and see if it works)

Thanks a lot for your help

 

Well, you'd have to append the script for the Irenicus dungeon, level 1 (Sorry, I'm too lazy to look up the name of it.)

Make a file *.baf that contains:
IF
Global("MyNPCExists","ARXXXX",0)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
SetGlobal("MyNPCExists","ARXXXX",1)
CreateCreature("MyNPC",[x.y],z)
END

Then, in your TP2

EXTEND_TOP ~ARXXXX~ ~Path/*.baf~

 

I managed to create my NPC using Map Editor. I gave it the .dlg I made for her, and the .cre file as well.

However, now I seem to encounter some kind of weird problem: my NPC is actually there when I load the game, but I cannot talk to her. It says "Frog - has nothing to say to you".

Weird enough, Frog's the name of *my* character, *not* the NPC's.

[ September 30, 2003, 00:39: Message edited by: Grenouillebleue ]

 

I had that same problem, but couldn't figure out how to make it work. I ended up giving up. The problem is that the NPC doesn't have anything to say, because you probably didn't tell it to say anything. Or did you?

 

Well, I don't really know.

I did write a .d file, then weidu-ed it into a *.dlg file.

I put this .dlg file into the .cre file (where it says: dialog) and also on the Map Editor when adding a creature.

It's really frustrating

 

have you put the right variables/globals as conditions?

 

I already see the problem.

Don't WeiDU the dlg first. You should put the dlg filename into the .cre file, but don't compile the .d.

If you desperately want to do it your way instead of the better, .tp2 way, then weidu your .d using the --tlkout argument. The way you did it, you created a compiled dialogue file that links to nonexistant lines in the dialog.tlk file, which is why it doesn't work.