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shefenhow
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Hi all,
Pretty much finished my custom map and now just trying to populate it with nasty denizens.
Is it possible to have different animations for multiple monsters in a single encounter? The animations seem tied to the encounter rather than to each individual, unless I am missing something. I would like a group of four or five mobs in a camp, with for example one stocking a fire, two of them arguing, one hammering etc. Is this possible or would I need to split them into multiple encounters?
If I do need to split them, I am going to have to be very careful regarding difficulty I guess, as I could end up with five solo creatures which tend to be pretty tough, all attacking the player(s) at once.
In fact when I try an animation on an encounter, it tends to look stupid, with a five mob encounter doing synchronized look, left, look right, look up etc.
I also have an issue with a patrol, where only one mob in the related encounter wanders off and the rest stay at the start. Is that likely to get sorted when I publish, or what am I doing wrong? In fact even the mob that does go off to patrol walks off into a wall and then teleports away, despite the fact that absolutely none of the patrol points have co-ordinates on the far side of the wall he tries to enter. I even recreated with a new patrol and patrol points and that did the same. At this rate I am going to need to give up on the patrol.
Pretty much finished my custom map and now just trying to populate it with nasty denizens.
Is it possible to have different animations for multiple monsters in a single encounter? The animations seem tied to the encounter rather than to each individual, unless I am missing something. I would like a group of four or five mobs in a camp, with for example one stocking a fire, two of them arguing, one hammering etc. Is this possible or would I need to split them into multiple encounters?
If I do need to split them, I am going to have to be very careful regarding difficulty I guess, as I could end up with five solo creatures which tend to be pretty tough, all attacking the player(s) at once.
In fact when I try an animation on an encounter, it tends to look stupid, with a five mob encounter doing synchronized look, left, look right, look up etc.
I also have an issue with a patrol, where only one mob in the related encounter wanders off and the rest stay at the start. Is that likely to get sorted when I publish, or what am I doing wrong? In fact even the mob that does go off to patrol walks off into a wall and then teleports away, despite the fact that absolutely none of the patrol points have co-ordinates on the far side of the wall he tries to enter. I even recreated with a new patrol and patrol points and that did the same. At this rate I am going to need to give up on the patrol.
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If the mobs run into about anything, they can stall and sometimes disappear, so clear the path well. Especially tough to get them to patrol down stairs. They will go up (sometimes) but want to catapult into the air for some reason when dropping levels (off rocks, stairs, etc).
Wander does not work really until the quest is published.
Different animations can be done with some trickery. Make NPC's with identical costumes as the mob you want to utilize. Place them at the same locations of the mob and make different animations for each. When it is time for them to get mean, shed the NPC's and spawn the mob.
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I might try that with the NPC's, thanks for the idea. It might be a pain having multiple single encounters.
Cheers,