Someone has said that they need a lot of help learning to build and script in NWN. Are there many others out there?

Would you be interested in attending a NWN building school? Perhaps a few hours of class on a few Saturdays to build a small module?

If you would be interested, post here. If you'd like to add more to the idea, let me know.


Here's a schedule off the top of my head. You could attend what classes you wanted:

Week 1: Creating a module, Placing and Editing Objects
Week 2: Creating custom scripts for items
Week 3: Creating custom scripts for doors, traps, other walk-on events, death and chat
Week 4: Creating custom scripts for spells (we won't make .haks for new spells, we'll just change how a spell behaves -- like shoot double the magic missiles)

If there were other things you'd like to learn, let me know.

I'd probably have to figure out how to stream with Twitch or something so you can follow me while making your own module at the same time. And have a group chat with Skype or something.

That would be cool. How do you think you would do the class? (Google group?)

I have a lot of the basics down, but I suck at programming in C (used to program a fair amount in BASIC and Fortran, just very very rusty).

I would be interested in some of the more advanced stuff, like custom haks for spells, custom fighting styles (I know at least one server that does this) and custom classes or tweaks to classes (for instance, one server I used to play on customized the bard so that at a given level, armor penalties no longer applied to casting).

I don't know the hak/classes/spells stuff, unfortunately. A long time ago I built a custom spell and learned that I would never try it again. :)

I can help with the programming, though!

Oh, also, I don't know much about how to do the class. I'll check out Google Group if a group of people want to do it.

I'd be willing to help/co-teach. I'm pretty good with the actual builder; placing things, making doors and transitions, encounters, waypoints, etc.

I'm in the process of getting my PW up and running again. The server runs, and it's really stable. I'm just trying to get all my router/firewall settings so people can log in and play (I have a fixed IP).

I would like to see if I can horses working. They were eventually added to NWN, but my mod pre-dates that, and I'm not sure I can add them in without a major overhaul.

Very interesting .... I've no time for this but Aurora is amazing !!!

You can add them. You have to throw in a few scripts. However, one of the required scripts is a heartbeat script, which adds significant lag to a computation-heavy server. I found the hit to just not be worth the benefit.

Take heart - fear not the heartbeat.

NWN was built long ago for machines more humble than those typical of today. Build smartly and you can do much, and EVEN hazard a few heartbeat scripts where essential. This from a fellow who is admin to a server with a NWN module of 1337+ areas, 110+ custom spells, flying, climbing, jumping, swimming, and horses, but NO LAG.

It can be done, come see and we'll talk shop sometime.

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