DM Client Suggestions (Encounter & Waypoint Management features)

shadguy

We have a "Show/Hide Triggers" button in the GUI. I suggest adding "Show/Hide Encounters" and "Show/Hide Waypoints" buttons.

In addition, trying to deal with encounters on the fly sucks in the DM Client. Being able to see the triggers will help, but being able to manage the encounters and their spawn points would be a difference maker. At this time, when you create an encounter in the DMC, you don't know how big it is, and you cannot add Spawn Points, so stuff tends to spawn right on top of/behind the party. Having even a simple way to manage the triggers (Grow/Shrink/Move) and thei Spawn Points (Add/Remove/Move) would be useful additions, IMHO.

Those Grow/Shrink/Move options for encounter triggers may interest some on plain old normal triggers, too; I would expect there's some significant degree of reuse in adding those features to the DMC; if so, one could support both encounters and triggers with this feature, though I expect the encounter application is more generally useful.

Some folks end up using custom scripted encounter systems, but I think some basic enhancements to the DMC, toolset, and nwscript could add a lot of value out of the box.

-Dave

Omnipsi

Being able to define custom vertex/vector geometry for all triggers (incl. encounters) through nwscript is a big want for me, being able to do the same in the DM client would be great. Being able to relocate waypoints easily, including "dragging" them in the DMC to a new vector and to specify a precise vector or location, would also be fantastic.

rodney418

I'd be happy if there was a simple command to disable all already existing encounters in an area. Would be great for running DM events on a PW server.

Also, would like it so that if a DM possesses an NPC it disables any scripted conversations that NPC already has, so that if a player clicks on it during the possession it doesn't open a conversation box.

Mermut

rodney418 said:

I'd be happy if there was a simple command to disable all already existing encounters in an area. Would be great for running DM events on a PW server.

Also, would like it so that if a DM possesses an NPC it disables any scripted conversations that NPC already has, so that if a player clicks on it during the possession it doesn't open a conversation box.

It should be fairly easy to script a tool to do that. A bit CPU intensive because you'd have to cycle through the objects in the area.
Alternately, you could put a variable on the area with a comma separated list of encounter tags and have the DM tool grab that and get the encounters explicitly by tag