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Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:38 pm
by John Adams
This post is to discuss DLW and for KhaineGB to post info and questions on developing content for this 2nd starter zone.
Note that as I am now playing DLW on Live, many of the original quest and spawn scripts designed by Scatman in 2008 still may apply. So unlike Frostfang, where nothing had ever been done before, DLW has scripts already. Hopefully that will make the task easier.
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Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:17 pm
by KhaineGB
I've actually been poking around DLW myself.
From what I can tell, a couple of the VERY start quests are changed slightly... to represent the fact the wall has been blown to all hell by the elementals. The NPC's changed position slightly as well.
Everything else beyond Hates Envy is -exactly- the same.
Thankfully my level 95 coercer was powerlevelled, so he never did the DLW quests (despite starting there)... so I can run the quests to check things.

Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:24 pm
by Cynnar
It has been some time since anything has been done to this zone. Now that I know a little more on what I am doing, I have take up this zone.
All NPC's have been spawned with the exception of those that spawn from a quest. I believe everything else was already merged to the zone, and just a portion of NPC's were missing.
Currently I am working my way through each quest on live and adding them to our server. So far the 4 quest I have been working on had to be made from scratch. Since Jabantiz has created the quest parser tool it should make writing quest a lot faster, and easier.
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 8:17 pm
by Lithillia
Good job!
DLW is a beautiful place, my favourite of the new zones for sure, even if im SICK of it
*Darkelf to darkelf knuckle-bump ensues!* (don't leave me hanging!)
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 9:30 pm
by Cynnar
Lithillia wrote:*Darkelf to darkelf knuckle-bump ensues!* (don't leave me hanging!)
AND MAKE IT EXPLODE!!
Thanks. It's been one big pain in the butt. I learned a lot there, and messed up a lot more. I felt sorry for Jab because I sent him a million messages. Didn't give him a chance to do anything else.

Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:57 pm
by Cynnar
When you douse skeletons with stunspore dust it stuns them and does not have a casting bar show up. How can I do this in the lua script?
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:32 pm
by tyrbo
Might be an easier way? But I think you'd just set the item up to cast a spell, which you'd give a cast time.
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:09 pm
by Cynnar
I have it set up to use the CastSpell() function right now, but that shows the yellow casting time bar and it includes spell name. I have to figure out how to hide the bar, or just apply stun instead of using a spell.
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:18 pm
by Jabantiz
The spell would have to have a casting time of 0. Or you can set up an entity command, cast the entity command from the item script then in the spawn script apply the stun with a timer to remove it if it ever gets removed.
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:38 am
by tyrbo
Oh, I misunderstood, I thought you were trying to give it a casting bar.
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:46 am
by Cynnar
Most of the time a casting bar is displayed.
I didn't get a chance to fix this yet, and I will also need to find the correct spelling with the correct visual.
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:27 am
by tyrbo
Is it 2802?
A quick search for "spore" shows "spore_dust_toss".
Re: Task: Darklight Wood Content Design
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:15 pm
by Cynnar
I'll have to look when I get home. Probably is as Dust to Dust quest requires you to douse skeletons with stunspore dust