NPC Maker

How to create NPCs to fight, talk to and interact with

An example creating a new npc and placing it into the game, playing the NPCs then destroying them.

Placing down NPCs and spawning them.

The NPC brush bar: Pressing the icon or the NPC browser will open up the NPC database you can place down NPCs into the world. If you press the green play button then it will spawn all the players. Likewise pressing the red stop sign will destroy all NPCs

NPC respawns if enabled the npc will respawn if the player kills it.

Editing / Creating NPCs

Pressing the + sign in the NPC or right clicking a NPC in the NPC database will allow you to alter the properties of the NPC.

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Sprite Pack : Sets what sprite pack the NPC uses Name : the name of the npc has to be unique. Description : The description of the npc should describe what its used for Hostile : If clicked this npc will always attack the player Preview : Spawns the NPC for testing. Warning that previewing a hostile NPC will cause it to attack the player. Save : Saves the NPC and adds them to the database.

The attribute window

Used to set that stats of the NPC. To make a NPC more intelligent, faster, or more powerful. Unfolding uses a background system that can help you make NPCs faster by providing every NPC to have a background history. If you click on the early years and the adult years. It will bring up the backgrounds menu. Selecting a background template. If you have backgrounds already made you can click on the backgrounds to preview the various backgrounds in place. hint : Remember backgrounds can be seen by the player when they right click and click get stats of the NPCs. They provide a narative purpose as well as providing stats to your NPCs. Adding a background template. To add a template : Change the Name to the template you want. Add a description, Unfolding engine will automatically change the He/Her pronouns to asssociate with the NPCs sex. Then assign the effects of the class by changing what attributes it changes. When you click save if it has a unique name it should enter into the backgrounds database and you can now click on it. It will set the background and automatically apply the stats.

Weapons

This is the attacks the NPCs use when attacking. You can set the different spawn rates of different items. As well as set the rarity of those weapons. This is useful for creating rare loot. You can learn how to create a weapon in Making Weapons with the weapon maker

Appearance tab : Sets what

Sets what Material the NPC is made / influenced by. Height : sets the height of the NPC in game Width : sets the width of the NPC in game Male / Female Sets the sex of the NPC

Dialogue

This controls what how the NPC communicates. There are two dialogues at the top called Press space Dialogue. When the player presses space near the NPC then it will load this dialogue. NPC force dialogue will play this dialogue when the NPC is near the player. Forcing them into a dialogue. The World dialogue is text that appears in game. Greeting is the text that appears when the player comes near to NPC, Battle cry is the text they make they are attacked. Idle is the sound they make every so often. Death is the text they make when they are killed.

AI

Ai is what makes the NPC react and how they should move. Each has a description of what each one does.

Boss

Contains settings that are used to create boss NPCs Boss healthbar : if this NPC is aggressive a healthbar will appear on the screen showing the NPCs remaining health Enhance Health : If enabled this NPCs health will slowly recover