The only problem with that, that contact NPCs tell their text on a random basis between 10 and 20 seconds. However, it's great idea. It also has given me another idea.
Quest markers on minimap - if by any reasons you don't want to use quest related marker (eg. because you're using area marker and don't want your quest objective to be area but point) or you want to show player different ways to solve the quest, place single guard encounter + cube underneat the floor (but not just below ground - encounters tend to jump on higher grounds eg. -50) and set quest objective to kill those guards (with different text, like: use this door). Once the door is used, make cube/cubes disappear and therefore kill the guard.
Example of usage: Find your way to the end of castle. You want to mark 3 hallways that can be used. Place guards + cubes underneath those 3 doors and once player reaches final marker, disappear all cubes. That way quest gets completed once the player reaches final point when having 3 markers on map.
Another example: Talk with NPCs in town. You have 5 NPCs you want player to talk with, but only one gives solution (but quest area marker rounds a small area around single NPC. Place eg. 3 guards and cubes that way, that area marker for kill will contain all the NPCs you want player to talk to. Disappear all cubes on dialog prompt.
Oh, btw, I made a video yesterday that might fit the theme. It's guide for deaf people in creating blackout events. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fd9_KxmbJw
By deaf I mean that I haven't spoken a single word.
Ok, a meta-tip! One critical thing about details is imagining all the weird ways you can use them. That is, consider using walls tilted to become floors or ceilings. Or even the top of a wall embedded into the ground as a path or decoration (depending).
Campaign: The Fenwick Cycle NWS-DKR9GB7KH
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
What is an "authoring achievement" and how do you get them? Is it just how many quests you've authored, or are there certain elements/ requirements (number of plays on your quests or the like?)?
Breaching the Swarm NW-DUXUHQWNP
Pick your side, take a stand, save--or kill--your former allies.
What is an "authoring achievement" and how do you get them? Is it just how many quests you've authored, or are there certain elements/ requirements (number of plays on your quests or the like?)?
Early Access II
10
Play and Review 25 quests that are in Beta
Into the Wilds
5
Become a Beta reviewer
Patron of the Arts I
5
Tip maximum amount to another author
Patron of the Arts II
5
Tip maximum amount 25 times
Reviewer I
5
Play and Review a published quest
Reviewer II
10
Play and Review 25 published quest
Reviewer III
15
Play and Review 100 published quest
Tipsy I
5
Tip a published quest
Tipsy II
5
Tip 25 quests, any amount
Work Week[5]
5
Play and Review at least 1 Foundry quest every day for 5 days
Note: Unlike most achievements, Foundry Community achievements are considered account wide - thus any and all characters you log into after completing these will gain the achievements and points.
I played a quest with an author note 'yes, this kid is a dwarf, but there are no children in the list of characters.'
Yeeeah... that's lazy.
Here's how you make a child: get a bottle of wine... wait, no.
Create a costume, picking someone close to what you want. Generally pick facial hair (IE: none) and clothes about what you want.
Lower height (duh), then select advanced options. Reduce: torso length, leg length, arm length, and tweak various elements to scale.
Generally, children have the same size head as adults, so basically you reduce everything ELSE. Maybe make the head a scootch smaller and eyes bigger for small children, also reduce the jaw and nose a bit (faces tend to thicken out and down as people age).
There you go.
Campaign: The Fenwick Cycle NWS-DKR9GB7KH
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
Am I the only one that has "urchins" in my NPC selection?!?
Granted, they are perhaps pre-teen to teen and not young children, but scaling them correctly could make even younger?
There is another title above "Moonstar Agent" which is simply "Moonstar". It is Dungeon Master Rank 10. This requires 29 "Foundry Authoring" achievements and 18 "Foundry Community" achievements.
So I wanted to look for specific skin that gave a black/swirling aura around it but I didn't know if it even existed (still fairly new to Foundry here) and no one on chat could give me answers.
So I went through ALL the presets and here's the combined list:
PURPLE:
- Wight Darkhunter
- Mindflayer mastermind
- Shadow imp
- Lady of spiders
- Mizreal Everdark
I am having trouble with friendly guard encounter and i cannot continue
The encounter is Guards (friendly) standard 2, 2 brute mobs, now my problem is when i test the stage the guards will attack me and not the enemy encounter
As far as tips go... ZOOM IN, Zoom WAY IN... When you can see the little dots as you move objects it's very helpful in lining them up on z,x plane on the maps... this is especially true in maps like caves where like the C shaped one will jump stuff across the pit if you try to place it and are zoomed out too far - makes placing encounters and npcs in there a pain unless you zoom in all the way... The dots are also helpful for lining up architecture, etc.
Another tip... if you get the bug that I get where your mouse goes crazy, alt+ctrl+delete and log out of computer... then log back in.. You can also do task manager and end but that's tricky sometimes since you have to use keyboard shortcuts to get it to end the game process to get your mouse back to normal.
Another tip... if you get the bug that I get where your mouse goes crazy, alt+ctrl+delete and log out of computer... then log back in.. You can also do task manager and end but that's tricky sometimes since you have to use keyboard shortcuts to get it to end the game process to get your mouse back to normal.
That's probably the moving an object onto the map too quickly bug.
Just hit ctrl-s and after it saves it'll free the mouse.
Or, alt-f4 and it will ask if you want to save before exiting.
Both far less drastic than rebooting.
Comments
Quest markers on minimap - if by any reasons you don't want to use quest related marker (eg. because you're using area marker and don't want your quest objective to be area but point) or you want to show player different ways to solve the quest, place single guard encounter + cube underneat the floor (but not just below ground - encounters tend to jump on higher grounds eg. -50) and set quest objective to kill those guards (with different text, like: use this door). Once the door is used, make cube/cubes disappear and therefore kill the guard.
Example of usage: Find your way to the end of castle. You want to mark 3 hallways that can be used. Place guards + cubes underneath those 3 doors and once player reaches final marker, disappear all cubes. That way quest gets completed once the player reaches final point when having 3 markers on map.
Another example: Talk with NPCs in town. You have 5 NPCs you want player to talk with, but only one gives solution (but quest area marker rounds a small area around single NPC. Place eg. 3 guards and cubes that way, that area marker for kill will contain all the NPCs you want player to talk to. Disappear all cubes on dialog prompt.
Siegebreaker - NW-DGDPWV2U5 - story about the ambush, escape and great rescue of the city.
I'm a streamer and I know it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fd9_KxmbJw
By deaf I mean that I haven't spoken a single word.
Siegebreaker - NW-DGDPWV2U5 - story about the ambush, escape and great rescue of the city.
I'm a streamer and I know it!
I did request
Siegebreaker - NW-DGDPWV2U5 - story about the ambush, escape and great rescue of the city.
I'm a streamer and I know it!
Ok, a meta-tip! One critical thing about details is imagining all the weird ways you can use them. That is, consider using walls tilted to become floors or ceilings. Or even the top of a wall embedded into the ground as a path or decoration (depending).
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
Now featured!
'A wayward child' is currently taken down for upgrades
Oh yeah, that is annoying. I haven't had that one in a while. But the only way I could get it to stop was to restart the client.
Oh awesome. I get it about once per hour nowadays
Now featured!
'A wayward child' is currently taken down for upgrades
Bill's Tavern | The 27th Level | Secret Agent 34
Pick your side, take a stand, save--or kill--your former allies.
http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Achievement#Foundry_Authoring
Early Access I
5
Play and Review a Beta quest
Early Access II
10
Play and Review 25 quests that are in Beta
Into the Wilds
5
Become a Beta reviewer
Patron of the Arts I
5
Tip maximum amount to another author
Patron of the Arts II
5
Tip maximum amount 25 times
Reviewer I
5
Play and Review a published quest
Reviewer II
10
Play and Review 25 published quest
Reviewer III
15
Play and Review 100 published quest
Tipsy I
5
Tip a published quest
Tipsy II
5
Tip 25 quests, any amount
Work Week[5]
5
Play and Review at least 1 Foundry quest every day for 5 days
Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics
Yeeeah... that's lazy.
Here's how you make a child: get a bottle of wine... wait, no.
Create a costume, picking someone close to what you want. Generally pick facial hair (IE: none) and clothes about what you want.
Lower height (duh), then select advanced options. Reduce: torso length, leg length, arm length, and tweak various elements to scale.
Generally, children have the same size head as adults, so basically you reduce everything ELSE. Maybe make the head a scootch smaller and eyes bigger for small children, also reduce the jaw and nose a bit (faces tend to thicken out and down as people age).
There you go.
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
Granted, they are perhaps pre-teen to teen and not young children, but scaling them correctly could make even younger?
Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics
Bill's Tavern | The 27th Level | Secret Agent 34
Also, can anyone help me with this info? Once you get these titles, you can't see what the requirements are any longer.
Rank 1 - Foundry Apprentice
Requires: (need info)
Rewards: Foundry Apprentice Cloak and title "Foundry Apprentice"
Rank 2 - Foundry Neophyte
Requires: (need info)
Rewards: Title "Foundry Neophyte"
So I went through ALL the presets and here's the combined list:
PURPLE:
- Wight Darkhunter
- Mindflayer mastermind
- Shadow imp
- Lady of spiders
- Mizreal Everdark
RED:
- Morlem
- Ethrian Marrowslake
- Stormcaller
- Intellect devourer
- Bandit Kallos
- Thay NPCs (various)
- Drow Deathweaver
- Succubus
BLUE:
- Ghosts (various)
- Skystriker
- Thunderhowl
- Direhelm
- Vansi Bloodscar
- Plagueguards (various)
- Plaguechanged Linkletter
- Syndrith
- Nothic eye 1
- Occulus the Inflamed
FIRE:
- Blazing skeleton
- Runeflame guardian
- Than undead
- Golems and magma brutes (various)
- Ash disciples (various)
- Fire elementals
- General Ignazar
- Flamebows (various)
- Flameshields (various)
- Gummoth the Twisted
- Hand of Maegera
- Immolus
- Duergar Theurge
- Pit Fiend 3
- Shepherd of the damned
OTHER EFFECTS:
- Ash zombie (ash cloud)
- Blackdagger (dust/earth/brown cloud)
- Sludge rotter (blue/water)
- Skeleton archer 2 (black aura/swirls)
- Shadar-kai Idris (green "sphere" pulsating glow)
- Doomsept (brown/red)
- Duergar thrall (red+sparks)
- Ashmadai warlock (red glow at hands)
- Foulspawn super (red glow eyes)
- Magma brute (black)
- Pit fiend 1, 2 (black)
- Eye of the blue fire (blue glow at hands)
- Nothinc brute 1, 2 (black)
- Nothic mindwarp (purple aura+blue glow at hands)
Now featured!
'A wayward child' is currently taken down for upgrades
[SIGPIC]http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=98570189&dateline=1372572330[/SIGPIC]
NW-DCJV53UTU
[Open for play, link to spotlight thread]
The encounter is Guards (friendly) standard 2, 2 brute mobs, now my problem is when i test the stage the guards will attack me and not the enemy encounter
As far as tips go... ZOOM IN, Zoom WAY IN... When you can see the little dots as you move objects it's very helpful in lining them up on z,x plane on the maps... this is especially true in maps like caves where like the C shaped one will jump stuff across the pit if you try to place it and are zoomed out too far - makes placing encounters and npcs in there a pain unless you zoom in all the way... The dots are also helpful for lining up architecture, etc.
Another tip... if you get the bug that I get where your mouse goes crazy, alt+ctrl+delete and log out of computer... then log back in.. You can also do task manager and end but that's tricky sometimes since you have to use keyboard shortcuts to get it to end the game process to get your mouse back to normal.
That's probably the moving an object onto the map too quickly bug.
Just hit ctrl-s and after it saves it'll free the mouse.
Or, alt-f4 and it will ask if you want to save before exiting.
Both far less drastic than rebooting.
Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics
I can help with the Rank 1:
Rank 1 - Foundry Neophyte
Requires: Publish a quest
Rewards: Title "Foundry Neophyte"
Based on this I assume Apprentice is actually Rank 2.
This is a truly awesome thread though. Thanks for making it!
You even got a spotlight on Dezstravus' Live Stream today.