The Game Engine and wandering Town NPCs
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:02 am
How does the Game Engine keep track of wandering town NPCs? Are the same NPC names placed in each town/city every time a New Game is started, or is it random?
I'm asking primarily for a mod I've been thinking about: the Armies of the Iliac Bay. At first I thought it could be possible to spawn a bunch of Knight/Town Guard billboards in marching formation, facing the same direction and about 7-10 person-width column, and several hundred persons long. This of course would pop up with the message "You see a Knight" when clicking on them or whatever.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to actually "pull" some of the wandering NPCs in the towns/cities of a Region (like Daggerfall) and drop them into an army (like the Army of Daggerfall for lack of a better name). This fully-populated army (at least a thousand troops, perhaps more) could be spawned in various places when not at war, to march down walled-city streets in "parade review" etc. Just would be nice to see a huge army march through a large city now and then.
And of course those NPCs that were pulled would no longer be wandering the towns, so those towns would be a bit less populous.
Any thoughts?
I'm asking primarily for a mod I've been thinking about: the Armies of the Iliac Bay. At first I thought it could be possible to spawn a bunch of Knight/Town Guard billboards in marching formation, facing the same direction and about 7-10 person-width column, and several hundred persons long. This of course would pop up with the message "You see a Knight" when clicking on them or whatever.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to actually "pull" some of the wandering NPCs in the towns/cities of a Region (like Daggerfall) and drop them into an army (like the Army of Daggerfall for lack of a better name). This fully-populated army (at least a thousand troops, perhaps more) could be spawned in various places when not at war, to march down walled-city streets in "parade review" etc. Just would be nice to see a huge army march through a large city now and then.
And of course those NPCs that were pulled would no longer be wandering the towns, so those towns would be a bit less populous.
Any thoughts?