Linux NWNX Chat plugin

[acomputerdood]

Hi!

I'm trying to get:

NWNX Chat
Chat event hook
0.3.5 (04.06.2008)
http://data.virusman.ru/nwn/nwnx_chat-0.3.5-linux.rar

running, and am having some problems. I already had the "core" nwnx working, along with the "odbc" plugin (running a mysql DB) -- running the precompiled binaries, too. The combination of those two was working fine.

I then tried installing the chat plugin, and I'm getting some errors spit out on the console, and it segfaults when i exit the server. Here's my output:

[Fireboar]

I'd try compiling it myself if I were you. If you're unsure about how to go about it, you can use the link in my sig which will provide an easy way to compile NWNX and several plugins, including the latest nwnx_chat. Read the documentation first though!

Also, set processnpc=0, unless you really want to capture text spoken by NPCs, because it really helps performance.

chat_script.nss is an isolated script that doesn't go anywhere, it just sits there. It is run whenever someone says something. The script is defined by chat_script=[thescript] in the ini file. So for example, if you put chat_script=something the script called "something" will be run whenever someone says anything.

[acomputerdood]

well, i compiled it on our production server, but it wouldn't compile on my home/test server. i'm hoping that's what the problem is/was. anyway, if i comment out the settings in the nwnx2.ini file (even having the "[CHAT]" line all by itself causes the crash), then everything seems to be working correctly.

i thought that "processnpc=1" was needed to allow DMs posessing creatures to use the functionality? i guess its not TOO important. what about the "ignore_silent"? that's for normal DM speech, right? how hard is that on the server? i'd like to keep that one on if i could.


i set up way for players (while in game) to chat with people not in game but on a webpage. i thought that DMs would want to participate in that.

[acomputerdood]

actually, on our production server, i did get it to compile, but when it tries to load the chat plugin, i get:

ERROR: CHAT: OnCreate() failed.


EDIT: i just compiled with your install.sh script, and i'm still getting the "ERROR: CHAT: OnCreate() failed.". do you need additional information about my system? or g++ versions?

[acomputerdood]

well, probably my last update:

on my production server, i was able to get the chat plugin working (finally) using precompiled binary in a newer shell. i know i'd tried it before, but that was in an old shell i'd had open for months. i guess i'd changed something in my terminal settings since then, and made it work.


not sure what the problem had been, but it seems to be cleared up on my end.

[Fireboar]

Weird, I've never heard of the terminal being the issue! Glad you got it working anyway.