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Finding a creature ID.

Fri, 21 March 2014 07:42

Schuldiner
Messages: 12
Registered: September 2013

Junior Member

Thanks to this guide, I have managed to spawn creatures in game. It is quite simple, but until now I have only figured out Elise's ID which apparently is "CreatureVillagerElise", using BNK Browser I have found quite a few other NPCs that I would like to spawn such as Reaver/Theresa etc... Although using the same logic "Debug.CreateEntityByHero('CreatureVillagerReaver')" or Theresa, did not work. What I'm curious about though is, how does the game figures out the ID of the creature. Why doesn't it spawn the model by using the actual path to the corresponding .mdl file? Is there any logic on figuring out the NPC ID?

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Re: Finding a creature ID.

Fri, 21 March 2014 10:05

Keshire
Messages: 137
Registered: August 2013

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Schuldiner wrote on Fri, 21 March 2014 07:42

Thanks to this guide, I have managed to spawn creatures in game. It is quite simple, but until now I have only figured out Elise's ID which apparently is "CreatureVillagerElise", using BNK Browser I have found quite a few other NPCs that I would like to spawn such as Reaver/Theresa etc... Although using the same logic "Debug.CreateEntityByHero('CreatureVillagerReaver')" or Theresa, did not work. What I'm curious about though is, how does the game figures out the ID of the creature. Why doesn't it spawn the model by using the actual path to the corresponding .mdl file? Is there any logic on figuring out the NPC ID?

I believe they are defined in the globals.gdb. The global name, model, and other properties of the creature.

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Re: Finding a creature ID.

Fri, 21 March 2014 11:36

Schuldiner
Messages: 12
Registered: September 2013

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Thanks for the help, do you have any gdb editor in mind? I've already used Artofeel's posted editor found here, but it doesn't seem to read the file itself. The editor is on the same directory with the file by the way.

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