Beginner's Guide to Lua Gossip

[Dr. Livingstone]

Alright. I’ve been looking around for a nice guide on creating Lua Gossips and I couldn’t find one. So I decided to take the time to make a nice simple guide to creating a teleport NPC. It’s a pretty simple NPC in reality, and I feel the best way to learn is to do it yourself. So this guide will largely force you to do the work. When it comes to learning these sorts of scripts you should look at other people’s work so that you can get an idea of how these sorts of things work. This doesn’t mean copy and paste! That helps no one…

So here we go. We are going to start with this little piece of our script. I’ll break it down right now. The local npcid is stating which NPC will use this script. The function is… well… what your script is going to do. pUnit:CreateGossipMenuForPlayer creates the gossip menu for player. The pUnit:MenuAddItem adds an item to the menu. Then there is the self-explanatory “end” line.

local npcid = 100000

function warp_on_gossip_talk(unit, event, player)
	pUnit:CreateGossipMenuForPlayer(3543, player)
	pUnit:MenuAddItem(player, 0, "First Gossip Lua", 1, 0)
	pUnit:MenuSendToPlayer(player)
end

So now that we have this little set up we can move on to creating something worthwhile. We need to create the next part of our script. So we are going to add this to the script.

if(intid == 1) then
player:Teleport(0, x, y, z)
end

We are going to add this little bit of Lua to the bottom of our script. This is stating that if someone selected “First Gossip Lua” (You can see the intid == 1, just need a little reasoning to figure this one out), then you will be teleported to this location. The 0 is stating the mapid. Now the important part. x, y, z coordinates are a must. Go in game. Find a place you want this to port you too. Simply type .gps and bam! You’ve got your coordinates. Always, I repeat ALWAYS round your Z coordinate up to avoid falling through the world when being ported. Now to finish our script.

RegisterGossipEvent(100000 , 1, "warp_on_gossip_talk")
RegisterGossipEvent(100000 , 2, "warp_on_gossip_select")

Well that sums up our script. If you forget that final part then, well your whole script won’t work. Make sure you’re local npcid == the number in the registering part of your script. So now your script should look like this.

local npcid ==100000

function warp_on_gossip_talk(unit, event, player)
	pUnit:CreateGossipMenuForPlayer(3543, player)
	pUnit:MenuAddItem(player, 0, “First Gossip Lua”, 1, 0)
	pUnit:MenuSendToPlayer(player)
end

if(intid == 1) then
player:Teleport(0, YOUR X COORD, YOUR Y COORD, YOUR Z COORD)
end

RegisterGossipEvent(100000, 1, “warp_on_gossip_talk”)
RegisterGossipEvent(100000, 2, “warp_on_gossip_select”)

There you go! I’ll be back to add more. Up next… Morph NPC! Hopefully this helped someone out. If not... well it was fun writing it.

[Jonthe838]

what programs do u need to do this and how do u make the scripts work?
i downloaded a scrit from this site but it dident work

[oMSQo]

what means Gossip
Sorry i'm just a begginer

[Lauren]

what programs do u need to do this and how do u make the scripts work?
i downloaded a scrit from this site but it dident work

You need to have lua++ enabled.

Lua++, Download

Extract to your ascent (Or openascent) folder. Then go into your ascent-world.conf and find

#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#
# Scripting Engine Setup
#
#    Ascent can support multiple script backends via the means of loading .dll files for them.
#    This section in the config can enable/disable those backends.
#
#    LUA
#         If you would like to enable the LUA scripting backend, enable this.
#         Default: 0
#
#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#

<ScriptBackends LUA="0"
                AS="0">

And change it to:

#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#
# Scripting Engine Setup
#
#    Ascent can support multiple script backends via the means of loading .dll files for them.
#    This section in the config can enable/disable those backends.
#
#    LUA
#         If you would like to enable the LUA scripting backend, enable this.
#         Default: 0
#
#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#

<ScriptBackends LUA="1"
                AS="1">

- Original Posted by: Dragonshadow

[Dr. Livingstone]

Thanks for helping them out Gossip is what creates teleporters, morphers, that sort of thing. Something that the player communicates with. Like guards. Hope that cleared things up oMSQo

[Lauren]

Thanks for helping them out

You're welcome =)

[Dr. Livingstone]

+Rep for being so helpful Lauren. Couldn't do it earlier. Has this guide helped anyone out?

[Lauren]

Not sure, but I like your guide. It very helpful for people who want to know about the basic stuff in lua gossip. =)
+Rep =)

Edit: Need to spread some rep around first

[Dr. Livingstone]

Thanks anyways Really hope people can use this.

[Sounddead]

Looks good. Nice detailed guide.

Might suggest the use of colors. Not alot, just like a bit of contrast. People find things with contrast easier to read

+rep x2

[stoneharry]

Agreed with Sounddead but don't make the whole thing red for example, or a different colour for every word =p +Rep x2

[Ollox]

Very Nice guide im learning lua it was usefull and btw i wish i could rep but im on my iPhone

[ArciX^]

LUA script is so complicated! Nice guide man. Keep up the good work!

[Dr. Livingstone]

Thanks guys. Will deffinatelly add some color here in a bit. Been trying to pick up some C++ and Hypnotic WoW has been taking up a good bit of my time. I'll get to work on making this guide better too Glad I helped some people out.