Attaching weapons to a spawned Guardian creature

[tyeeeee1]

Hey,

I've just completed most of a simple script that im making. Basically it spawns a unit which act's like your personal guard/party member for 10 minutes. Well after a lot of trial and error I've gotten the script in a mostly-working order, but their is still one dilemma facing me. I cannot figure out how to attach weapons to the npc that is spawned by the script.

I have tried doing the usual (:EquipWeapons(12282, 0, 0) ) but it wont work for some reason. Below is the script im working on, if anyone knows how to fix this problem the help is appreciated.

local NPCID = 900005

function Quest_OnAccept(player, pUnit, event)
    player:CreateGuardian(900005, 600000, 0, 2)
	player:EquipWeapons(12282, 0, 0) 
end

RegisterQuestEvent(900001, 1, Quest_OnAccept)

Additional Information:

The unit being spawned is a Dwarf npc set to the same faction as the player (They are both on faction 21 for certain reasons.)
The script activates when the player accepts the quest from NPC 900001 (The quest ID is also 900001, due to numbering reasons.) The quest allows the player to use the guardian NPC to help him/her defeat an elite monster.

[AlienCCL]

insert in SQL by offline through navicat ore heidi , not by ingame.

[stoneharry]

The EquipWeapons function works perfectly. The problem I guess is that the weapon is appearing sheathed/invisible until it enters combat, you need to change bytes2 to 1 but I have no idea how to do this within Lua since the syntex for bytes is: SetBytes(x,x,x).

Also make sure your using the itemids and not the displayids (or is it the other way round? I forget).

Example script of me using EquipWeapons() function:

function Alliance_squad_attacking_onspawn(pUnit, Event)
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("delay_for_slackers_XD", 1000, 1)
end

function delay_for_slackers_XD(pUnit, Event)
    pUnit:SetFaction(1)
    pUnit:SetPhase(2)
    pUnit:SetMovementFlags(1)
    pUnit:EquipWeapons(1482,6320,0)
    if math.random(1,2) == 1 then
    pUnit:MoveTo(-7198, -1964, 313, 2.811485)
    else
    pUnit:MoveTo(-7205, -1968, 312, 2.850754)
    end
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("LetsMoveIntoTheActualBase_Squad", 4000, 1)
end

function LetsMoveIntoTheActualBase_Squad(pUnit, Event)
    if math.random(1,6) == 3 then
    pUnit:SendChatMessage(14, 0, "For the Alliance!")
    else
        if math.random(1,6) == 4 then
        pUnit:SendChatMessage(14, 0, "The Horde shall fall!")
        end
    end
    if pUnit:IsInCombat() == false then
        pUnit:SetMovementFlags(1)
        if math.random(1,2) == 1 then
        pUnit:MoveTo(-7217, -1960, 314, 2.744725)
        else
        pUnit:MoveTo(-7218, -1963, 313, 2.811484)
        end
    end
end

RegisterUnitEvent(151081, 18, "Alliance_squad_attacking_onspawn")

[AlienCCL]

The EquipWeapons function works perfectly. The problem I guess is that the weapon is appearing sheathed/invisible until it enters combat, you need to change bytes2 to 1 but I have no idea how to do this within Lua since the syntex for bytes is: SetBytes(x,x,x).

Also make sure your using the itemids and not the displayids (or is it the other way round? I forget).

Example script of me using EquipWeapons() function:

function Alliance_squad_attacking_onspawn(pUnit, Event)
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("delay_for_slackers_XD", 1000, 1)
end

function delay_for_slackers_XD(pUnit, Event)
    pUnit:SetFaction(1)
    pUnit:SetPhase(2)
    pUnit:SetMovementFlags(1)
    pUnit:EquipWeapons(1482,6320,0)
    if math.random(1,2) == 1 then
    pUnit:MoveTo(-7198, -1964, 313, 2.811485)
    else
    pUnit:MoveTo(-7205, -1968, 312, 2.850754)
    end
    pUnit:RegisterEvent("LetsMoveIntoTheActualBase_Squad", 4000, 1)
end

function LetsMoveIntoTheActualBase_Squad(pUnit, Event)
    if math.random(1,6) == 3 then
    pUnit:SendChatMessage(14, 0, "For the Alliance!")
    else
        if math.random(1,6) == 4 then
        pUnit:SendChatMessage(14, 0, "The Horde shall fall!")
        end
    end
    if pUnit:IsInCombat() == false then
        pUnit:SetMovementFlags(1)
        if math.random(1,2) == 1 then
        pUnit:MoveTo(-7217, -1960, 314, 2.744725)
        else
        pUnit:MoveTo(-7218, -1963, 313, 2.811484)
        end
    end
end

RegisterUnitEvent(151081, 18, "Alliance_squad_attacking_onspawn")

as i know . for NPC you must use display id of weapon , not its entry?

[stoneharry]

as i know . for NPC you must use display id of weapon , not its entry?

Nope you use the itemid, I just went and checked.

[AlienCCL]

stoneharry to the flurry

[tyeeeee1]

Thanks for all the replies, but the script still refuses to work. The NPC no matter if the weapon's are sheathed should still show the 2h axe on his back, I did go and check in-game again just to make sure the axe didn't appear on-combat.. (On-combat just gave me the idea to make a 2nd script to make the guardian equip the axe on-combat!)

Anyways I'm starting to think that the script isn't targeting the spawned npc. (I'm not sure if this helps at all >.<)

@StoneHarry------Thx for the replie with the script StoneHarry, It's helping me out with a patrol quest that I was planning to make.
@AlienCCL------For some reason the DB im using (WhyDB) doesn't have the columns for weapon equipping through Heidisql.

[AlienCCL]

HeidiSQL is sux. use Navicat.

[Dynashock]

That's because you're targetting the player to equip the weapons not the guardian. The CreateGuardian() should return the guardian spawned, thus you could do it like this:

local NPCID = 900005

function Quest_OnAccept(player, pUnit, event)
    local guardian =player:CreateGuardian(900005, 600000, 0, 2)
    guardian:EquipWeapons(12282, 0, 0) 
end

RegisterQuestEvent(900001, 1, Quest_OnAccept)

[tyeeeee1]

Sorry for not replying, it's all fixed now. Thanks for the help!