Neverwinter Nights Forum News (Jan. 04, 06)

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Here are today's Neverwinter Nights forum highlights, collected by NWVault. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

Georg Zoeller, Designer

SetName() & 43 other new commands in patch 1.67
Your DD module $$ at work (and Craig of course )

There is an awesome new DD module that uses a crapload of that new functionality to do things never seen before in an NWN module as well...

04 Jan 2006 - Fun To Say, Fun To Use: Konfabulator Widgets

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i can't move the Hotu reader despite the lock option is uncheked .. any ideas ?

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Hold CRTL on your keyboard and you can move it

Craig Welburn, Live Team Programmer

Any plans for a 1.67?
To clarify a few things asked/stated in this thread.

SetName() will not work on player characters.
SetName() will not work on Areas.
The new name becomes the global name seen by all players in the module.
The toolset description for SetName() is as follows:
// Set the name of oObject.
// - oObject: the object for which you are changing the name (a creature, placeable, item, or door).
// - sNewName: the new name that the object will use.
// Note: SetName() does not work on player objects.
// Setting an object's name to "" will make the object
// revert to using the name it had originally before any
// SetName() calls were made on the object.
void SetName(object oObject, string sNewName="");

The 1.67 update will NOT contain a SetDescription() scripting command.

CreateObject() will NOT work on doors.
Although PlayAnimation() now works on doors which allows for some cool new tricks.

Yes you will be able to Get/Set wings/tails.....and other things (although not Gender).

No you can't change XP/Gold/Give/Take items silently.

No beach towels, but it will include some new content from our Pirates of the Sword Coast Premium Module (still TBD).

We are working hard towards trying to get a 1.67 beta out sometime in January.
No ETA yet on when the final version of the 1.67 update will be available,
although once the beta is available it wont be too far off.

Stanley Woo, Quality Assurance

Money For XP Legal?
The EULA and the BioWare representatives who post in these forums have been pretty clear that we don't like people benefitting in any in-game way from donations.

Regardless of its guise (consulting fee, server maintenance, donation), if a character benefits directly from that donation (extra items, plots, DM help, house, favourable rulings, rank), it's a big no-no.

We've heard all the rationalizations ("servers are expensive to run") and excuses ("it's my ideas and property, not BioWare's"), so please let's not get into it again. If anyone knows of a server where something like this is happening, please report it and the relevant legal team shall investigate. Thank you all for your support.