Ascent question, help appreciated

[hornswoggle]

I'm currently running a private Ascent Ultimate Repack 7.5 entirely for private use, but I have run into a problem:

Every NPC in the game (almost all of them anyway) will just run up to me and auto-attack. Almost no NPCs use spells of special abilities of any kind. Also, the raid bosses will do the same thing. There are no phases in the battles--the raid boss will just run up to me and start to auto-attack--no dialogue--nothing really epic about any of the encounters.

I have been told that I need to use C++ or LUA to script the events. But, I have no idea how most of these events are supposed to be in the first place, and I certainly have no idea which NPCs cast which spells and so forth--not to mention that I have very little programming experience and am basically a noob about all of this.

Is there a way to make my server more realistic? Is there a way for me to download something or automate this in some way? I would love to experience some of these epic raid fights as they were intended.

Thanks for helping a noob--it's good karma.

- H

[martinbt]

That is cuz you don't have scripts that can Handle spells for bosses those scripts are called Moon scripts... And they make the bosses talk and do spells and they are scripted with those...

[latruwski]

download the scripts from moon team from the svn adn compile them:
http://mmoforge.org/svn/moon/
login: anonymouse
no password

lua scripts here:
http://mmoforge.org/svn/moon/trunk/Lua%20scripts/

place those in "scripts" folder in the ascent folder and enable lua scripts in the config files...

here you can find extras:
http://mmoforge.org/svn/moon/trunk/Extras/
(stripper, warp, morph npcs etc)

http://mmoforge.org/svn/moon/trunk/
there you can find them all... all C++ scripts also (those you need to compile, LUA not!)

NOTE: normally if you download a precompiled core from gastricpenguins thread the scripts are included i think...

grtz

[2dgreengiant]

you can also create them yourself if you want to make a mob do another spell

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/emulat...-updating.html

[hornswoggle]

place those in "scripts" folder in the ascent folder and enable lua scripts in the config files...

Thanks so much for your help. I went into my scripts folder and found a lot of scripts already there. I imagine that somehow they are just not turned on. How would I go about enabling the lua scripts that I already have? In checking the config files I did not see a place where I can enable the scripts.

Thanks,

- H

(+rep too)

[latruwski]

Thanks so much for your help. I went into my scripts folder and found a lot of scripts already there. I imagine that somehow they are just not turned on. How would I go about enabling the lua scripts that I already have? In checking the config files I did not see a place where I can enable the scripts.

Thanks,

- H

(+rep too)

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#    Ascent can support multiple script backends via the means of loading .dll files for them.
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<ScriptBackends LUA="0"
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in your ascent config file


grtz