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[Daeltaja]

Hey everyone,

I'm pretty much brand-new to the toolset. However I have spent the last week going through many video tutorials, reading wiki and much more. I now have a solid but basic understanding of how to build a room, fill it with objects, lights etc, as well as how to build a basic terrain and export both for testing in-game. Ran into some issues along the way of course, but all in all, quite happy with the progress.

With that out of the way, my end-goal is to create a small, 30min~ standalone mod, featuring a haunting story, chilling atmostphere, which will focus less on combat, but more on exploration/puzzle solving. I'm very much in the planning stage and I'm gradually learning the tools. However, I have limited to none, scripting skills. For now, I have a few questions that I would greatly appreciate some help on. Some of which might be hitting me right in the face, but nonetheless have me stumped.

1. Creating a creature character.. I've followed the tutorials on this and saved the finished NPC. I added him into my level file and when posted it to local and loaded the level into the AREA, everything BUT the NPC is present. On Wiki, it states that you simply make your NPC, then save it. Then you go into AREA and the model should be listed under "creatures"? It says you can simply drag them from there, onto the level. Nothing is appearing for me under "creature" however and trying to bring it in through a saved level is clearly not the right way either.. so how do I do this? Also, I added a conversation tree to him, is there anything else that has to be done in order to have him interactable ingame? 

2. I built a simple terrain level with a building and some tree's. Pathfinding/Lighting worked fine and it seemed to post fine too, but there was no tree's present when I ran the module in DA. Whats the cause?

3. With limited scripting knowledge, is it possible to have conversations with NPC's, recieve/complete quests (collect X, investigate Y etc), open chests, inspect items that show floating text, trigger simple events and cutscenes, with any sort of ease? Are there preset scripts I can simply use/modify?

I'm looking at a 3 month cycle to complete this project, I will of course be updating you all of my progress!

I'm sure there will be many, many more questions from me, but a big thanks in advance and I look forward to getting to know some of you. 

Cheers.

[DavidSims]

When trying to place the creatures, are you looking in the level/layout editor, or the area editor? These are seperate tools. You make terrain in the level editor, but you place creatures in the area editor. The level editor will let you place some humanoid models to give you a sense of scale, but actual creatures have to be placed in the area editor.