Looking for a solution

dsabrae · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 23

for nwnx2 or nwn1 that can suppress the XP awarded message to a player. The PW I run uses pwfxp to award xp from combat and I would like to suppress the award message that appears in the combat log. Can anyone suggest a means to an end?

Zebranky · Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 415

One solution is to store "virtual XP" in your database, check the amount every time it changes, and if appropriate, award a full level of real XP. This is almost certainly easier than a NWNX solution, which may not even be possible.
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Baaleos · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 830

I do something like this already.

Except its not so much as xp I am storing, I store 'souls' of the deceased monsters.

You would just need to edit the 'base' xp script that is being used.

Find the int value, of the xp that is being awarded, and then replace the

GiveXPToCreature() function with something like

int iCurrentXP = GetLocalInt(oPC,"VIRTUAL_XP");
iCurrentXP = iCurrentXP + newXP; (newXP being the value that the GiveXP function would have given.)
SetLocalInt(oPC,"VIRTUAL_XP",iCurrentXP);

This stores the xp on the players, what you could then do, is a loop on the ModuleHeartbeat, which then goes through all Players,

virusman · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 1020 Location: Russia

dsabrae · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 23

for the ideas and examples this is exactly what I needed to look at!

ShaDoOoW · Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 584

virusman · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 1020 Location: Russia

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Baaleos · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 830

Perhaps I got lost somewhere but

Are we saying that the alteration of the Message Function - that reports the xp gain, is what would be laggy to hook onto or to edit.

or

Are we saying that the alteration of the xp gain function in nwnserver.exe - that gives xp, and then calls the messaging function, would be laggy to edit?

Surely the XP Gain Message is only reported on xp gain, therefore, would only be called on each line of text in combat log, that actually involves xp gain?

Eg - XP Gain Event- > Calls the xp gain function -> Gives xp & Calls the Reporter Function to report this to the player.

If there was someway of Hooking onto the second thing in this series , the "Calls the xp gain function" - then this would effectivly be like hooking onto the xp gain event, and then possibly replacing it with a nwnscript equivelant.

I appreciate that my knowledge of nwnx is pretty basic, but is this not do-able?

ShaDoOoW · Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 584

virusman · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 1020 Location: Russia

Baaleos · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 830

Is there a nwscript.nss - I've never noticed it... Whats in it? Lol

Baaleos · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 830

Some googling has revealed to me that nwnscript.nss is the script that the main game functions are contained in.

Handy.

When I get home, I will have a look at the contents of it.

Is it the actual functions which are defined here? or are they just declared?

Eg - Can you for instance, actually edit the

GiveXPToCreature() function, so by default, it gives pseudo xp, instead of actual xp?

ShaDoOoW · Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 584

Fireboar · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 323

A better solution would be to simply define your own give XP function, then search all your scripts for "give XP" calls, replacing them with your own function.

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