id like to do a few things to npc's and im having a bit of dificulty,

how can i change the name of the npc lets take the Merchant npc...

in the characters table hes id # 8
ive tryed to change the table name field to another name and i get errors for the quests. that merchants no longer there
i tryed to take out the quest rows (delete them for the database) WRONG idea there got alot of other erors and crashed server.exe

i tryed changing the Merchent referance and then reuploading the xml files i created as backups..nope didnt work either..

hard to figure all this out blindly..im trying...

one other question how can i make a new npc..i tryed to add a clacker to the npcroom via mysql(myphpadmin) copied another record used (#24 clacker) and moved him first location referance 10 points off..and didnt get it to spawn when i tryed to load it via server command loadnpc Clacker

so how do you make a new npc?

thanks again for any help provided and it will be most appertiated...
(sorry im a bit tired and ill look over for errors/spelling tomarrow)

this was problems i had when instlaling it...

hope it helps someone else...

have fun!

ok the guide here is missing a few things.

make sure you have used the pull downs at top and picked windows/mscv.

then follow the instructions.

a few things when you get to the parts of:

CS Windows Libraries
http://crystalspace3d.org/support/win32/

just get this version cs-win32libs-0.99r0_021

to get the cvs i used TortoiseCVS works great

make sure you get TortoiseSVN. too

you have to install the WordNet dictionaries
[do it at this part, wait till that part when it says to copy the files, its in two diffrent places]
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Get the Server Running
Optional section
Copy Dictionary Files

Simply copy the dictionary files from your \WordNet\2.1\dict folder to the \PlaneShift\data\dict folder.
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grab the code make sure you use SVN as yes the cvs of cs and cel do download, you need the SVN versions
make sure you use the revisons and dates (planeshift CVS download, only one that has cvs downlaod)

double check the Setup MSVC Environment paths as i made a typo here...so double check it

one thing to make sure of too
Under Tools->Options  make sure the show all settings is checked (mine was not by default)  its in the far left hand botom conner

when making the cs compile a line has to be added to cs for the CS SVN revison: 24890
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in the solution exployer(right hand files box)
click on the plus sign to expand app3ds2lev
then expand source and there will be a file called 3ds2lev.cpp
open that file (double click it)
after all the #include's
and before enum
put this line
CS_IMPLEMENT_APPLICATION
so it looks like this
#include "csutil/scfstr.h"
#include "csutil/sysfunc.h"

#include "levelwriter.h"

CS_IMPLEMENT_APPLICATION

enum
{
  FLAG_VERBOSE = 0x0001,
  FLAG_LIST     = 0x0002,    /* List all objects in this 3ds     */
  FLAG_SPRITE = 0x0004
};
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im going to make another install docs for mscv myself with the direct download links and instructions... as well as make a server install package (as not all the files are needed to run the server(its very bulky with all the cvs and svn stuff)

please remeber this is for the current cvs as of Saturday, July 29, 2006 (they may fix or change it in the future, as the cvs is always changeing)
the current info was when i did all this:

Currently compatable with Laanx:
PS CVS date: "2006-07-12 00:00:00 UTC"
CS SVN revison: 24890
CEL SVN revison: 2046

so if you have the same on the compile page as that and cant find the missing code chances are you needed this post

hope you can get it going now & good luck.

doing quest and testing mysql routines for quarrys have NOTHING to do with the current build of the cvs or stable versions...thaose are part of what i wan tto test..as well as try and make a few areas too... so telling me its worthless is being narrow minded..read the above posts.. i have said it meny times before some of the things i want to do...

i have the fellow that updated the docs for the installs and hes stumped so it seams its not me...i have the full version of vs.net 2005 and it seasm to have a problem... i am trying to fix it and compile it we are down to one error now...so its close to compiling...

and i do not see what the big dealis on wanting to do something else besides change the server/client code... i find a need for the server to be compiled and have the menas to run it..should that be enoph weather a person agrees or thinks i should that is irrelivant... i asked for help and im getting more of i shouldnt do it then support of doing it..thats a bad way to do things..wonder what else you lal have a bad mintality on..quite frankly im getting fed up with the adutudes here.. i asked for help and im getting belittled for asking for it...man what a good thing to do...you should try to look over the old morman comersials and read the grow up with poam that was made...tell someone there bad they are bad tell them they can do it and help them do it they excell at it...

man you guys are getting to be too much..STOP POSTING if you cant help or have a reply NOT RELIVANT TO compiling the code..im done with argueing the whys and nots...i have a need lets leave it at that...

so anyone else want to contribute to the working out of the compile problems either by helping me compile it or have the compiled exes all ready??

an i have falloowed the directions and i have been on the irc channels....

please please do not post here if you want to tell me off or have no solution to the problem...thank you

let me be perfectly clear i know the content of the ps system..i have both played the game an i have the mysql server running fine with the cvs content....

i want to make enhancements to the game using my own server...to try and make some areas to play in and to try my hand at making a quest or two... as well as fix and make my gui enhancements ps_mods.

i do not want to mod the server or ps client code at all...the exe binaries...

i am fully aware of what content is and is not included in the cvs i have reviewed it exstenively...as for infringments nope wount be any as one im doing this for fun and secondly i am in hopes at one point to maybe be so lucky as to have the things i may make  in the game some time that would be relaly nice in my book...i have aplied to be part of the team but like everything else the dev/and controllers of this game and its devlopment are too busy... no big deal as im trying to do this on my own i have made the mod (see above link) and i am in hopes others will use it...
i also have other contributions soon like another player retrivial system, and maybe a users stats display too..working on both right now...

i do not like no lets use a bit stronger wording i HATE dispise and loath any form of  the programming lanuage C..funny i like php alot and its supost to be like c..but good nabit i can never get it to work with out pulling teath and driving to the moon.. i find the lanugae c to be one of the worst languages on the face of the earth and maybe the universe..it down right sucks and is way to hard to use... with that said i am having a VERY hard time with compileing the ps server files and want to take a sledge hammmer to it and am extreamly frustrated.. to no end... oddly it does not seam to be the ps cvs code it seams to be cs thats giving me the problems...any ways hopefully ill get it ironed out or get some one to provide the build soon and wont have to spend more time on something that it so stuipid as this..and get to working on what id like to work on...and not spend two days trying to get the blasted thing to compile...
so all this is it irelivant all this its "not a fully functioning game"..all this "it wont" work and "i dont see the point" stuff....BLAH
i want it for reasons of my own and i know what it does and does not do..i want to test things NOT RELATED to the code of the sever exe or the client exe... if you cant understand that then trufully you should not be posting here...if anyone can help me either compile it or give me a working copy of the files needed to run on a windows xp box i would be very greatfull....

i just want a working server is all... the exe's and suporting files to make it work on a windows system.. plain and simple for others but my falling in life... one mans good at one thing and not at others this is my problem i cant compile c language stuff..its too frustrating for me...

sorry for the rant but im tired of saying i cant when i know what i want to do and can do it ...

wonder what a Kran would look like with armor let alone clothes..as i have a Kran. but nothing shows on him... wonder wonder wonder..................................

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