Using Simmstools languages

[Firehorse66]

how do i use the languages? the emotes work ie *bow and the dice work !d4 etc but i cant find any instructions on language useage. any and all replies will and are appreciated, thanks in advance.

[FunkySwerve]

I'll be including a tutorial in the second version. You need to decide which of your subraces speak what languages, by adding them in the config script. Alternately you can add a language teach to your mod, as demonstrated in the SIMTools demo mod. A character's knowledge of a language is stored either on a language stone, if you are using the Bioware database, or in the pwdata database if using NWNX databasing. When a character enters the mod, they are checked to see if they have undergone languages setup (again this variable is stored with the languages, either on the stone or in the database). If not, SIMTools checks the characters class/es and subrace, and 'teaches' them the languages they should know, by setting variables (again, on the stone or in the database. It also sets matching local variables on the character, because thats what SIMTools uses for speed and convenience when handling speaking and listening.. Whenever a character logs in, the persistent data from the stone or database is mapped onto local variables for this reason.

If you want characters to be able to use languages other than those you designate for their race in the config file, you'll need to add a teacher to the mod. As mentioned above, the SIMTools demo mod has a sample teacher. Most of such a conversation would be straightforward scripting/toolsetting. When the teacher is supposed to 'teach' the languages, you would simply set persistent data, either as a local variable on the language stone (locals on inventory objects are saved with the bic on servervaults, making them persistent) if using the Bioware database, or as a persistent variable using the standard aps_include calls. Here's an example of teaching the pc speaker language 32 (drow):