{"id":1220,"date":"2009-12-25T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2023-09-16T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:50:21","slug":"nwn-making-new-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/nwn-making-new-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"NWN Making new modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided I wanted to author a module. So I found the obvious resources and links and started the tutorial, the Invasion of Fern. [<a title=\"a local copy of BioWare Aurora Neverwinter Nights Toolset Module Construction Tutorial, a .pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/AuroraToolsetTutorial.pdf\">Aurora Toolset Tutorial<\/a>] I, of course, found some stuff to be missing. This page is my my <b>how to code a module<\/b> page. This article contains<a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/bioware-community-forums-v1\/\"> broken Bioware links<\/a> and now broken Vault links. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See below for <a href=\"#shingle\">Shingles<\/a> | <a href=\"#chicken\">Chickens<\/a> | <a href=\"#links\">Links<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Shingles<a name=\"shingle\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>These need to be made usable. Do they need their name changed?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started a thread called Help required, shingles and signposts, which refered to the following <a href=\"http:\/\/nwvault.ign.com\">NWN Vault<\/a> page, <a href=\"http:\/\/nwvault.ign.com\/View.php?view=Scripts.Detail&amp;id=20023&amp;id=3423\">Placeable on Used Examine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>which means that the description box will appear as is <i>examined<\/i>. The <b>.mod<\/b> file that accompanies the package has two flags one of which is automatically examined, the other which requires an action.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Boxes and Transformers<\/h3>\n<p>In order to build a transformer i.e. a box that you put things in and something else comes out, I would first need to work out how to place some crates with treasure in them.<\/p>\n<h3>Chickens<a name=\"chicken\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I want to make a chicken a monster that can be killed and a treasure found, either some chicken meat, other meat if too hard and\/or a diamond.<\/p>\n<h3>Links<a name=\"links\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=tutorial+nwn+aurora\">google:tutorial nwn aurora<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bioware builders<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/www.neverwinternights.info\/builders.htm\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230529112539\/http:\/\/www.neverwinternights.info\/builders.htm\">Neverwinter Nights, Builder&#8217;s page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bioware&#8217;s Module Construction Tutorial, at Builders, hosts a .pdf, which walks you through building the <b>Invasion of Fern<\/b> module. Also Bioware&#8217;s Tutorial .pdf.<\/li>\n<li>Developers at Bioware<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nwvault.ign.com\/View.php?view=other.Detail&amp;id=268\">NWN Aurora Toolset Help Guide &#8211; UPDATE<\/a>, dated June 2005<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetneverwinter.com\/nwntoolset\/\">Planet Neverwinter Nights<\/a> toolset site. It has a tutorial to create &#8216;wandering monsters&#8217; i.e. creatures that move between waypoints.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aurora_toolset\">wikipedia Aurora Toolset<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Meta<\/h3>\n<p>Copied accross in July 2013, the link to<a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/bioware-community-forums-v1\/\"> the Bioware hack entry<\/a> was added and my local copy of the Toolkit Manual uploaded and added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided I wanted to author a module. So I found the obvious resources and links and started the tutorial, the Invasion of Fern. 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