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[Williamtheknight]

 I am new the NWN2 and also the forum. I am just starting a game on toolset and I am wanting to know if any one knows how to make twins in the game. What I want to do is have twins as my main characters. I want the game to start out like normal but after the first mate tell me to wake my twin up then is will go in to character creation mode with only the race that the fist character is. Please help!

[Shaughn78]

So, the twin will be a companion. The only way to limit race selection is to edit the subrace.2da, but that will limit the races for all player created characters.

One way to do this may be to clone the player character. This will have some advantages as it will make an identical twin: appearance, tints, race and stats. The draw back will be an identical character: class, feats, skills and spells. This may be the simplest way to create a twin but it does have some issues. CopyObject is the function.

If you want to invest some time you could control the twin creation through conversation. This will allow the player to choose a class for their twin. You will need to create a lot blueprints, each race will need a set as will each gender. You could limit this by only using the 4 core classes: fighter, divine, arcane & rogue. You would set the stats, feats, skills and spells on these characters. The SetAppearance function will be used to make the new companion look like the player character. There is a SetGender function but it requires an area reload to make the changes and initially could cause some weird behavior so I would suggest not using it. The one major draw back to this is that tints can't be controlled in script, so skin color will vary between the twins.

I hope this helped.

[Friar]

Sounds like an interesting plot for an adventurer to have a twin. I wish you luck with learning the toolset.

[Williamtheknight]

Thanks for the help I will see what I can do. The only other way that I can see doing this is to use the same team up book from storm of zehir but I don't want people to cheat by having a total of six companions rather than the norm of three companions plus the twin. Just to let yu know I want the game to start out normally that means you can create your hero then when the game starts, you are told to wake your twin than the character creation mode come back on and you can make the twin. But I see this will be little harder than I thought.

Modifié par Williamtheknight, 13 mars 2013 - 08:10 .

[Williamtheknight]

By the way I want to have the game to have a twin because I am an identical twin so I don't really connect well with an only child hero in the main campaign. Life was easier in Baldur's Gate hit multiplayer and then boom you have twins. At least in your head any way.

[Dann-J]

I happen to have a pair of dwarven twins ('thunder twins' born after Moradin's Thunder Blessing) in my next module. One is a potential companion, but he can always sense the direction of his brother (who happens to be a weapon merchant). If the companion twin is in your party, his merchant brother will occasionally turn up in certain places with a small boar-drawn wagon laden with goods.

[Arkalezth]

How to make twins?

You see, when mom and dad love each other very much...

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[PJ156]

You could give the player the .bic file for one of the twins. they could play that or choose thier own and accept that they don't look like thier twin. It is all in the players head so this could work. You could provide a .bic for each of the major classes to give some player choice.

That way you know what the player is going to look like. So long as you warn them this is what you are doing if they choose to play a dwarf then they can.

PJ

[Williamtheknight]

Thanks for the help. But I'm just going to use the log book. People will cheat if they want to but it will be the easiest way.

[Morbane]

you can restrict how many companions a party has

script assist search for "comp" or "roster"

also look on the vault for EC's Super Include and copy it into your module directory before searching - better options that way

[Kaldor Silverwand]

You could change it to "find your twin" rather than "wake your twin", create a companion for every race and gender and put them all in a place (like a tavern). Then for each companion the initial conversation would check to see if they are the same race as the main PC. If they aren't then they say "Goodbye", but if they are the same race and you haven't already added one then they get added as your companion.

Regards

[Williamtheknight]

clever thought. I might use that. It will take some time to make this game because I am new to the toolset, Full time student, Father, and Husband. Lots of work. But it will be done. If I did do this I will defeninty limit the races you can play like say Sheild dwarf, Drow, Moon elf, wood elf, Half-link, and Human. classes would most likely be Fighter, Wizard, Cleric, rogue, and Palidin.

Modifié par Williamtheknight, 15 mars 2013 - 08:04 .

[Williamtheknight]

Here is an idea tell me what you think. Now I was told that you can limit the number of companions you can have at a time. So when the game starts you find your self in a room with the companion log book and a door now you are told through dialog that you have a twin and you need to make one. If you go to the door it will not let you out untell you have your twin if you make more than one companion when you go to the door it will pop up the choose companion list and it will only let you take one with you. After you leave this room the game starts and the you are now limited oto three companions and your twin is set to so that you can not remove him or her (the twin is not counted in the three companion list) Would this work that way so that the player has control over what their twin looks like.

Modifié par Williamtheknight, 15 mars 2013 - 08:54 .

[Williamtheknight]

No I was thinking is there a way to keep the player from leaving without their twin. I just want to door not allow you to leave with more than one companion. I don't care if the player makes a dwarf with an elf companion just as long as he can't leave the room with an army of companion.

[Morbane]

if you use the OC companion scripting set, the player will not be able to choose more companions then you have set in script.

so it can be any number up to the total you set from only 1 to some limit around 5 or 6 iirc

[Morbane]

this is the script that can be put on any useable placeable:

#include "ginc_gui"
void main()
{
object oPC = GetLastUsedBy();

if (!GetIsPC(oPC)) return;

AssignCommand(oPC, ClearAllActions());

AddRosterMemberByTemplate("aldonoth", "aldonoth");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("kage", "kage");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("zanz", "zanz");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("sesha", "sesha");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("voltus", "voltus");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("cancel", "cancel");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("claudius", "claudius");
AddRosterMemberByTemplate("eve", "eve");

SetRosterNPCPartyLimit(4);

ShowPartySelect(oPC, TRUE, "", TRUE);

}

of course these are pre made companions so the dynamic might look a little different for your purposes, but the basic scripting functions are there...

Modifié par Morbane, 15 mars 2013 - 07:43 .

[Shaughn78]

You can control the SOZ party size with the campaign editor. You will need to make a campaign, not a single module to take advantage of the SOZ party system.

In the editor you can set the "Party Creation" to True, then "party creation size" to 2. The original PC then the twin. This will not limit the party size to 2 only the player created party members (SOZ party), additional companions can be added to the party based on the roster size, Morbane's above script.

Modifié par Shaughn78, 15 mars 2013 - 11:57 .

[Williamtheknight]

Thank you that is very helpful I was going to make a campaign any way I love to write so a full story is what I was wanting.