How Do I Make A Custom Intstance 'Portal'

[Jackhamme]

Does ANYONE know how to make a custom instance portal. just like a portal on any instance, you walk through it and it loads it up, or comes up with a screen, I have tried everything on worldmap.info and areatrigger on my DB.

I've looked up every TuT I know to add a custom instance in. I have already made the all the instance's mobs and loot, just need it to become a proper instance on a normal map in STV

Instance Entrance point co-ords: Map = 0
X= -13555.8
Y= -174.028
Z= 38.9217

Instance Exit point co-ords: Map = 0
X= -13469.4
Y= 43.7858
Z= 30.247

Can anyone please help me out? If I can create this instance entrance and exit then this will prevent mob ninjas and the loot stealer. Thank you

[Reflection]

Your best bet would be to make an invisible npc check for nearby players via Lua and if they move close enough to the npc they teleport, then just spawn the appropriate portal. There was a post where GZ and harry explained it a while ago.

[Jackhamme]

hmm, yeah good idea, but i still need to try to make it an instance, like its secure and only people in your party/raid can join it. Might try that idea though.

[stoneharry]

All parts of zones/maps have areatriggers, and you can make it so that when you enter a areatrigger you get teleported (which is how Blizzard's portals work) but unfortunately you can not create your own areatrigger without a model edit.

You can, however, spawn a gameobject that shows the portal visual, and then have a invisible npc underneath it that checks for players and whether there in a group.

-- The ID's of the two invisible npc's (use  displayid 11686 for invisible, scale 0.01 (optional) and in game target  him and do .mod flags -10 to make him untargetable)
local npcid = 50000
local npcidtwo = 50001

-- Enterance

function InvisPortal_OnSpawn(pUnit, event)
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("Check_for_players_invis_portal", 2000, 0) --  1000 (1 second) is more effective but uses up more server resources
end

function Check_for_players_invis_portal(pUnit, event)
    for a, plrs in pairs(pUnit:GetInRangePlayers()) do
        if plrs ~= nil then
            if pUnit:GetDistanceYards(plrs) < 5 then
                if plrs:IsInGroup() then
                plrs:Teleport(0, -13555.8, -174.028, 38.9217)
                else
                plrs:SendAreaTriggerMessage("|CFFff0000You must be in a  group!|R")
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

RegisterUnitEvent(npcid, 18, "InvisPortal_OnSpawn")

-- Exit

function zInvisPortal_OnSpawn(pUnit, event)
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("zCheck_for_players_invis_portal", 2000, 0) --  1000 (1 second) is more effective but uses up more server resources
end

function zCheck_for_players_invis_portal(pUnit, event)
    for a, aaaplrz in pairs(pUnit:GetInRangePlayers()) do
        if aaaplrz ~= nil then
            if pUnit:GetDistanceYards(aaaplrz) < 5 then
                if aaaplrz:IsInGroup() then
                aaaplrz:Teleport(0, -13469.4, 43.7858, 30.247)
                 else
                aaaplrz:SendAreaTriggerMessage("|CFFff0000You must be in  a group!|R")
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

RegisterUnitEvent(npcidtwo, 18, "zInvisPortal_OnSpawn")

[sgtmas2006]

All parts of zones/maps have areatriggers, and you can make it so that when you enter a areatrigger you get teleported (which is how Blizzard's portals work) but unfortunately you can not create your own areatrigger without a model edit.

You can, however, spawn a gameobject that shows the portal visual, and then have a invisible npc underneath it that checks for players and whether there in a group.

-- The ID's of the two invisible npc's (use  displayid 11686 for invisible, scale 0.01 (optional) and in game target  him and do .mod flags -10 to make him untargetable)
local npcid = 50000
local npcidtwo = 50001

-- Enterance

function InvisPortal_OnSpawn(pUnit, event)
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("Check_for_players_invis_portal", 2000, 0) --  1000 (1 second) is more effective but uses up more server resources
end

function Check_for_players_invis_portal(pUnit, event)
    for a, plrs in pairs(pUnit:GetInRangePlayers()) do
        if plrs ~= nil then
            if pUnit:GetDistanceYards(plrs) < 5 then
                if plrs:IsInGroup() then
                plrs:Teleport(0, -13555.8, -174.028, 38.9217)
                else
                plrs:SendAreaTriggerMessage("|CFFff0000You must be in a  group!|R")
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

RegisterUnitEvent(npcid, 18, "InvisPortal_OnSpawn")

-- Exit

function zInvisPortal_OnSpawn(pUnit, event)
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("zCheck_for_players_invis_portal", 2000, 0) --  1000 (1 second) is more effective but uses up more server resources
end

function zCheck_for_players_invis_portal(pUnit, event)
    for a, aaaplrz in pairs(pUnit:GetInRangePlayers()) do
        if aaaplrz ~= nil then
            if pUnit:GetDistanceYards(aaaplrz) < 5 then
                if aaaplrz:IsInGroup() then
                aaaplrz:Teleport(0, -13469.4, 43.7858, 30.247)
                 else
                aaaplrz:SendAreaTriggerMessage("|CFFff0000You must be in  a group!|R")
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

RegisterUnitEvent(npcidtwo, 18, "zInvisPortal_OnSpawn")

Thats actually pretty cool way of doing this and BTW hai harry ^-^

[Jackhamme]

oh my... words do not explain, LOL thank you so much dude, this will help me more then ever!