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Foundry Tutorials - The Big List

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited January 2011 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
I hope this helps anyone looking for a tutorial on the foundry. Please add links to anything that I miss, and I'll edit this post:

Foundry Walkthroughs:

Cryptic's Official Foundry Walkthrough

Darren K's Three-Part Walkthrough

KF's Walkthrough

Other Tutorials:

How to Add Dancing Orion Slave Girls to Maps

How to Make a Zombie Attack

How to Make Mobs of Killer Spiders

How to Add Chat Animations, Idle Animations, and Chat Bubbles to NPCs

How to Add Multiple and Overlapping Mission Objectives

How to Make a Klingon Sneak Attack!

Multiple Dialogues -The Cheat

One Person Away Team

Interacting with NPCs

How to Attack a Space Station

Seduce an Orion Slave Girl

Other SBUGC posted tutorials and Wiki tutoirials

More to come...
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    good idea. i like
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/ Stuff my not alway be up to date but they catch things I miss. They help general news.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    The Big List just went franchise. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Great compilation Kirkfat :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Darren_Kitlor wrote:
    The Big List just went franchise. :D
    Speaking of which Darren- did you see the update I made to my mission?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    apt.pupil wrote:
    Speaking of which Darren- did you see the update I made to my mission?

    EDIT: I fixed your mission name. Let me know when the second mission you mentioned is actually published. I try not to include anything tentative as plans change frequently. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Awesome list... found something I needed... gotta go edit now...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    New tutorial tonight (I hope). Thanks everyone.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Darren_Kitlor wrote:
    EDIT: I fixed your mission name. Let me know when the second mission you mentioned is actually published. I try not to include anything tentative as plans change frequently. :D
    thats cool. Im in the middle of the first map now, so it will be a while before I am ready to advertise it outside of the wiki page
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Oh TG, I'm gonna need this list to get started. Thanks.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Anyway to make NPC contacs laying on the ground, injured or dead?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Bebbe wrote: »
    Anyway to make NPC contacs laying on the ground, injured or dead?

    Not NPC contacts - they just stand and wait for people to have a talk objective on them.

    You can make NPC spawns and extras lie down though - there's a lie down sleeping animation and a face down dead animation. E.g. You can set up a single targ, costume that as a person and then set that to lie down as if they were dead in their idle animation.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    New video tutorial added to the big list: Interacting with NPCs
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Bebbe wrote: »
    Anyway to make NPC contacs laying on the ground, injured or dead?

    Not exaclty with "contacts," but there is a lot that you can do with the individual actors of npc groups, using hidden objects as a way to interact with them, followed by popup dialogues. See the Interacting with NPCs tutorial for more detail.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    Not exaclty with "contacts," but there is a lot that you can do with the individual actors of npc groups, using hidden objects as a way to interact with them, followed by popup dialogues. See the Interacting with NPCs tutorial for more detail.
    You're taking advantage of something I was afraid people would notice, when I made my multiple-dialog-entries, and ridicule. Good job! :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    LordOfPit wrote: »
    You're taking advantage of something I was afraid people would notice, when I made my multiple-dialog-entries, and ridicule. Good job! :D

    LOL, yeah, I'm thinking that the next tutorial will involve using a dancing orion slave girl (single targ npc disguised) as a full-fledged mission contact. It's pretty much just a rehash of the hidden objects, multiple dialogues, and stuff that I've already done, But, if I also add in a console that you have to scan twice, it might showcase the full potential of the hidden volcanic flower.

    So it would combine all of the following into one tutorial:

    costumes, npc animations, multiple dialogue cheat, interacting with an object more than once, and, of course, how to have fun with an Orion slave girl.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    ...So it would combine all of the following into one tutorial:

    costumes, npc animations, multiple dialogue cheat, interacting with an object more than once, and, of course, how to have fun with an Orion slave girl.
    That's an awesome idea, as long as you use the one true object that should be used for this... [Desert Rock XS 02] ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    LordOfPit wrote: »
    That's an awesome idea, as long as you use the one true object that should be used for this... [Desert Rock XS 02] ;)

    What's so special about the desert rock? I'll do it, lol.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    What's so special about the desert rock? I'll do it, lol.
    I'm kidding! :D

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Is there a way to modify an enemy's appearence or create a "costume" for a bad guy? I am looking create a "break away" faction group, but would like their look to be different.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Craig-Hill wrote:
    Is there a way to modify an enemy's appearence or create a "costume" for a bad guy? I am looking create a "break away" faction group, but would like their look to be different.

    Absolutely, unless I'm misunderstanding your question. You can change the individual costumes of actors within npc groups. It's something I've done many times in several tutorials. In particular, the zombie tutorial changes the costumes of enemies. It should help you out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    Absolutely, unless I'm misunderstanding your question. You can change the individual costumes of actors within npc groups. It's something I've done many times in several tutorials. In particular, the zombie tutorial changes the costumes of enemies. It should help you out.

    Thanks I will check it out :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Just thought I'd let you guys know I managed to get an enemy ship to attack a base in space. It was a very tedious process to get it to work properly but it is possible. I used a generic damaged base and a fed cruiser 1 group.

    I located all of the above (all the individual ships as well) at the exact same co-ordinates and then adjusted the height of the base down by something like 33km. What it looks like is a Reman battleship is fighting the base.

    I changed the name of the fed ship to Orion Base and by painstakingly locating it just right it appears the Reman ship is shooting the bottom of the tower on the base and the base is fighting back.

    The trick is getting the correct elevation. If it is too far either way up or down it doesn't work. It sure beat my previous solution to defending a base under attack...

    I had used an Orion ship fighting a Reman ship so that there was something going on when I got there... but I had to jump through some dialogue hoops explaining that the other ship was some rival faction taking advantage of the situation... now that whole bunch of contrived dialogue and extra ships got tossed in the trash and I got what I wanted in the first place.

    Someone else might want to try this and make a tutorial. Or you can check it out in the opening scene of my mission called "Rescue". If you see two of these by me up there look for the one that says "Revised for the New Year" in the description.

    Another problem worked around... enjoy!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Napoleon_BlownApart wrote:
    Just thought I'd let you guys know I managed to get an enemy ship to attack a base in space. It was a very tedious process to get it to work properly but it is possible. I used a generic damaged base and a fed cruiser 1 group.

    I located all of the above (all the individual ships as well) at the exact same co-ordinates and then adjusted the height of the base down by something like 33km. What it looks like is a Reman battleship is fighting the base.

    I changed the name of the fed ship to Orion Base and by painstakingly locating it just right it appears the Reman ship is shooting the bottom of the tower on the base and the base is fighting back.

    The trick is getting the correct elevation. If it is too far either way up or down it doesn't work. It sure beat my previous solution to defending a base under attack...

    I had used an Orion ship fighting a Reman ship so that there was something going on when I got there... but I had to jump through some dialogue hoops explaining that the other ship was some rival faction taking advantage of the situation... now that whole bunch of contrived dialogue and extra ships got tossed in the trash and I got what I wanted in the first place.

    Someone else might want to try this and make a tutorial. Or you can check it out in the opening scene of my mission called "Rescue". If you see two of these by me up there look for the one that says "Revised for the New Year" in the description.

    Another problem worked around... enjoy!

    Interesting, so you essentially hid the ships inside the base? And they just stayed there, despite being fired upon?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yes, exactly that.. it just occurred to me yesterday to try and see if it would work and after a few hours of trying different things I found a Sweet Spot that performed and looked good. It seemed like you need to get the ship stuck in the rock part just below the base of the tower. I did not have to use the decimals in the coordinates... I think the elevation difference of the base to the ship was -33km. I'll check that & post it up.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Napoleon_BlownApart wrote:
    Yes, exactly that.. it just occurred to me yesterday to try and see if it would work and after a few hours of trying different things I found a Sweet Spot that performed and looked good. It seemed like you need to get the ship stuck in the rock part just below the base of the tower. I did not have to use the decimals in the coordinates... I think the elevation difference of the base to the ship was -33km. I'll check that & post it up.

    Thanks NB. This gives me an idea. I wonder if we could use this trick to disable an enemy ship, which is a feature that many people are requesting. I'll see if I can hide small ships inside big ships, lol.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    Interesting, so you essentially hid the ships inside the base? And they just stayed there, despite being fired upon?
    I figured that's what NB did. One of the Devs on RedShirt, I think it was AStarSearcher warned me that enemies will transport themselves to the player if they cannot reach the player's character by normal travel, but in this case, as long as the NPC is being attacked solely by another NPC, that's a battle sequence that the player can sit back and watch, so it should work flawlessly. :)

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    LordOfPit wrote: »
    I figured that's what NB did. One of the Devs on RedShirt, I think it was AStarSearcher warned me that enemies will transport themselves to the player if they cannot reach the player's character by normal travel, but in this case, as long as the NPC is being attacked solely by another NPC, that's a battle sequence that the player can sit back and watch, so it should work flawlessly. :)



    So far, I haven't seen the transporter effect, I'm attacking the immobile npcs. I put spheres inside of an asteoid, and then I put the asteroid inside of a Borg cube 'detail'. It's not perfect, but it allows me to engage the cube and disable it, by killing the spheres trapped inside of it.

    The problem: All the spheres fire from the same spot, so the cube acts strangely when looking like it's firing on my ship.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This is progressing well... if we can tweak these and get the results we are looking for that is a step in the right direction. anything else need a solution? Post it up and I'll run it through my puny brain and see what pops up...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This would be a lot easier if we just had some stationary and invisible npc groups. We could simply align them with the moon base, or spots on the borg cube, or on top of ground turrets, etc.

    I suggested this in the feedback forum, so please voice your support for it guys.
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