A couple of questions with LUA, C++, and vendors

[Presto12]

Hey I was wondering if I could make a NPC that sells items but only some of the time and it can only carry 1 in stock, then you have to wait again for it to come back.

Another thing is if I could make an achievement that requires you to kill two of my bosses 15seconds apart from each other. And make the reward a token or something

Also I was wondering how you can script a boss to where if the one of the bosses dies the other one gets stronger.

Finally is how can I get a boss to use a sound that other bosses use like "Ashes to ashes".


Thanks in advance to whomever helps me!

[bigjohnson4]

1. What do you mean, sometimes? A vendor either sells items or it doesn't. To set a max value on a vendor item, use '.npc vendoradditem <ID> 1', or set the max in your database. 1 sets it to sell 1 item max per person.

2. You won't be able to make your own achievements.

3. If you script your bosses, you can set a global variable when one of them dies, and allow the other to check for that variable, then go from there.

4. You can search for sounds in SoundEntries.dbc, you will need a tool to read your DBC files.

[brodie1600]

Go into your 'vendors' table in SQLyog, HeidiSQL, or Navicat (or whatever you may use). Create an entry (the entry # will be your NPC ID), add the item ID, put the amount as 1, the max amount as 1. Then edit the inctime column as the time you wish to have the item come back in the vendor table (this number is in seconds).

As for the achievement part, you will need a DBC editor to edit the raw DBC files in your main server folder. This is a very difficult process considering the columns don't have names, only numbers. If you wish to create your own achievement, you will need to find a guide that tells you what each column represents.

And for the LUA scripting and boss sounds, I won't be able to help you. All I can say is that you will need a program such as Notepad++ for LUA editing, and the boss sounds will probably be able to be configured in your database (e.g. SQLyog).


Hope this helps!

[bigjohnson4]

Go into your 'vendors' table in SQLyog, HeidiSQL, or Navicat (or whatever you may use). Create an entry (the entry # will be your NPC ID), add the item ID, put the amount as 1, the max amount as 1. Then edit the inctime column as the time you wish to have the item come back in the vendor table (this number is in seconds).

As for the achievement part, you will need a DBC editor to edit the raw DBC files in your main server folder. This is a very difficult process considering the columns don't have names, only numbers. If you wish to create your own achievement, you will need to find a guide that tells you what each column represents.

And for the LUA scripting and boss sounds, I won't be able to help you. All I can say is that you will need a program such as Notepad++ for LUA editing, and the boss sounds will probably be able to be configured in your database (e.g. SQLyog).


Hope this helps!

Thanks for posting pretty much exactly what I posted earlier.


You can create new achievements, but you would need to edit the client and create a patch to send to all of your players, as well as the DBC files.


And no, boss sounds are not defined in the database unless you are using Trinity/MaNGOs that retrieves script information from the database directly.