NPC Faction Colors

[John Adams]

I just re-parsed everything and popped it into my world. I was surprised when I saw colored names and reticles.

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They were both yellow, and when I clicked on them it turns green, with a familiar blue reticle. These are pets (minions), and this doesn't happen when I target NPCs (because of the faction packets we're not sending yet).

Question to be answered: are Pets (entity type 4096) just handled differently because they are never faction aware to players?

[Xinux]

[quote]Question to be answered: are Pets (entity type 4096) just handled differently because they are never faction aware to players?[/quote]

If i had to guess yes kinda like how players show up correctly in the emu the color of them that is when you click on them.

[John Adams]

Cool. If you haven't done so elsewhere, can you please do the packet layout/flow for Factions here? While it's not super urgent, if it's easy I'd like to bring the world to life with appropriate colorings like you did in your demo.

I can set up a temporary `character_factions` table along with our global `factions` and `faction_alliances` (if that's what we choose to call it).

[Xinux]

Ok going to be doing some guessing on this and i'm not even sure i'm right but here it goes.

When the spawns are sent to the world they have a faction id attached to them and when the client see's that spawn packet i think it checks to see if if the player knows about that faction and then if so it uses the value the player has for that id. Now if the player doesn't then the client sends a request to the server asking for what the player has for a faction value.

OP_ClientNpcFaction

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-- OP_Unknown_862 --
7/17/2014 17:31:01
192.168.1.168 -> 69.174.203.21
0000:	02 00 5E 03 00 00 0C 00 00 00 9E 03 00 00 00 00 ..^.............
0010:	EC 04 9C 01 00 00                               ......

OP_ServerNpcFaction

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-- OP_ServerNpcFaction --
7/17/2014 17:31:02
69.174.203.21 -> 192.168.1.168
0000:	02 00 58 03 00 00 08 00 00 00 9C 01 00 00 00 00 ..X.............
0010:	00 00                                           ..

[Zewtastic]

Faction levels
Ally (8000)to(20000)
Good (6000)to(7999)
Sociable (2000)to(5999)
Neutral (1999)to(-1999)
Wary (-2000)to(-5999)
Untrustworthy (-6000)to(-7999) Will talk to you still, and allow you to parley and do quests.
Kill on Sight (-8000)to(-20000)

[John Adams]

[quote="zingtastic"]Faction levels
Ally (8000)to(20000)
Good (6000)to(7999)
Sociable (2000)to(5999)
Neutral (1999)to(-1999)
Wary (-2000)to(-5999)
Untrustworthy (-6000)to(-7999) Will talk to you still, and allow you to parley and do quests.
Kill on Sight (-8000)to(-20000)[/quote]



[quote="Xinux"]Found faction values in the client.

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  _SGOUIString__SGOUIString(a1, &_gpEmptyWChar);
  v6 = 0;
  v5 = 1;
  if ( a2 > -2000 )
  {
    if ( a2 < 2000 )
    {
      v4 = (int)L"FactionNeutral";
      goto LABEL_17;
    }
    goto LABEL_5;
  }
  if ( a2 >= 2000 )
  {
LABEL_5:
    if ( a2 < 5000 )
    {
      v4 = (int)L"FactionSociable";
      goto LABEL_17;
    }
    goto LABEL_8;
  }
  if ( a2 >= 5000 )
  {
LABEL_8:
    if ( a2 < 8000 )
    {
      v4 = (int)L"FactionGoodwill";
      goto LABEL_17;
    }
LABEL_11:
    v4 = (int)L"FactionAlly";
    goto LABEL_17;
  }
  if ( a2 >= 8000 )
    goto LABEL_11;
  if ( a2 <= -5000 )
  {
    if ( a2 <= -8000 )
      v4 = (int)L"FactionKOS";
    else
      v4 = (int)L"FactionUntrustworthy";
  }
  else
  {
    v4 = (int)L"FactionWary";
  }

[/quote]