About entrances/exits and moving containers
chimeric
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How do doors work exactly? Looking at ARE files in the Infinity Engine browser I can see that every passage has two things: the red-colored trigger area and the gold door icon for the entrance. The entrance has only the name saying where it leads to, like Exit0704 when it is in the area 0703. The trigger for it is actually called Door0704 and uses Entrance name that is the Exit name of the golden icon (confusing, that). So the golden icon just contains this information for the trigger, which actually does the transporting, yes? And the door to be clicked on isn't really necessary, it's a separate thing.
Now what needs to be done in the destination area? Does some kind of landing point have to be prepared? How do I point the trigger to coordinates I want? How do I tell it to put me in a specific place?
The second question is about containers and placement more generally. How do I move, say, chests about? I change their Location: X and Location: Y coordinates, but that doesn't seem to do it. There are other coordinates called Launch point and Bounding box below. What are those?
Now what needs to be done in the destination area? Does some kind of landing point have to be prepared? How do I point the trigger to coordinates I want? How do I tell it to put me in a specific place?
The second question is about containers and placement more generally. How do I move, say, chests about? I change their Location: X and Location: Y coordinates, but that doesn't seem to do it. There are other coordinates called Launch point and Bounding box below. What are those?
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The travel region will indicate both the area it links to as well as the name of the entrance in that area. So, looking at AR0703 in NI, Door0704 is a travel region that links to destination area AR0704, and the entrance in AR0704 is Exit0703. The logic is that when I'm looking at AR0703, I can easily discern to which area Door0704 leads (AR0704). Looking at AR0704, I can also easily discern from which area entrance Exit0703 comes from (AR0703).
Entrance Exit0704 is actually connected to the travel region Door0703 in AR0704 (not Door0704 in AR0703). It is named Exit0704 because when the party arrives via that entrance, they are coming from AR0704.
Note: if you are talking about doors that are openable/closable, that is another story, since you are getting into editing the tileset for the area.
Containers are also defined as regions. You can put a container region anywhere you want, but the chest graphic is part of the area's art. So, the chest itself isn't movable.
If you want to get into area-making, see this tutorial from @Yovaneth:
http://www.simpilot.net/~sc/dltcep/index.htm
You could have a spell create an invisible creature that will initial dialog and transport the party to another area. Take a look at the Teleport Spell mod to see how something like that could be done.
http://forum.sigil.cz/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=740
Here is the README for WeiDU:
http://www.weidu.org/~thebigg/README-WeiDU.html
Mod How-Tos at Gibberlings3:
http://gibberlings3.net/forums/index.php?showforum=62
Or, just do what I did, download mods, crack 'em open, and see how they work.
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