Spawn an NPC facing a certain direciton?

[ExX]

So I made a custom welcomer NPC and I am trying to get him to spawn facing south so he is actually facing players. I tried setting Direciton = South, (and Direction = south right here.

public Welcomer() : base( AIType.AI_Melee, FightMode.Aggressor, 10, 1, 0.2, 0.4 )
{
Name = NameList.RandomName("male");
Title = "The Welcomer";
Body = 0x190;
SpeechHue = Utility.RandomDyedHue();
Hue = Utility.RandomSkinHue();
CantWalk = true;
Direction = south;

But it just errors out. I have checked the RunUO forums with no success in an answer. Is there any way at all to do this?

 

[dmurphy]

direction = south; is incorrect, you are trying to set it to an unknown variable.

Try
Direction = Direction.South;
or
SetDirection(Direction.South);

(I have not tried either of these)

 

[Milva]

You can also [set direction south in game, click on npc but every time it spawns you would need to do it again

 

[ExX]

Yea I didn't want to have to redo that everytime it spawned. Thank you so so so much dmurphy.

Direction = Direction.South;

This script I have been working on for like a week and it's just a normal NPC that will face you, talk to you, send gump info etc. I thought it was going to be so simple but I have learned more from this one script than any other one I've deconstructed / edited in the last month I have been workng on the emulator. A big thank you to everyone that is helping new players. /end rambling

 

[Milva]

Use the xml spawner and check the props on it after the npc is spawned, there just might be a direction listed there

 

[Lokai]

it's just a normal NPC that will face you, talk to you,

There is a method that you can use if a player triggers a spawn, that will face the mobile to the player.

Something like "GetDirectionTo(Point3d p)"

So, if your player's variable is "from" the script would look like this:

Mobile mob = new MySpawnedMobile();
mob.Direction = GetDirectionTo(from.Location);

 

[tass23]

If you're using Xmlspawner, you can set the direction as a property for that mob:

Ogre/Name/Bilge/Direction/South/Frozen/True

That's how the spawn entry looks on the Xmlspawner.

 

[Omegaexdeath]

also if you place xmlSpawner

set it to spawn npc mobile

open the lil book
Accessing the editing feature:

NpcName/Direction/South/

then you no longer have to set it after server restart

Spawner PROPS
HomeRange
SpawnRange
both to zero
to get the npc to spawn in one place & never move

https://www.servuo.com/threads/xml-spawner-tutorial.98/

 

[ExX]

Thanks a lot everyone. I have it working perfectly now. I love this community.