New NPC System

[BattleDash]

Hey all!

You may have noticed for the past half hour or so the Hub server was down, I was deploying and bug fixing one of our new plugins, EnlightenNPCs. It's like Citizens, but better. We no longer have a need for the Citizens plugin (It was ugly anyway).

We made this NPC system mainly for SMP 2. You may have noticed quite a few bugs on SMP 1 with NPCs/ArmorStands like the Lynix Dark Auction NPC sticking around when they shouldn't, this system completely fixes that bug, since it uses custom packets sent to players instead of server registered entities.

 

[CheetaX]

well done, looks great!

 

[LCMcrafter]

definitely looks better

 

[djokbak]

looks wayyyy better

 

[ItsJustChirpa]

Hey all!

You may have noticed for the past half hour or so the Hub server was down, I was deploying and bug fixing one of our new plugins, EnlightenNPCs. It's like Citizens, but better. We no longer have a need for the Citizens plugin (It was ugly anyway).

We made this NPC system mainly for SMP 2. You may have noticed quite a few bugs on SMP 1 with NPCs/ArmorStands like the Lynix Dark Auction NPC sticking around when they shouldn't, this system completely fixes that bug, since it uses custom packets sent to players instead of server registered entities.

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I SEE U DASH!!! <3 <3

 

[Javyer12]

New system glitches. Sometimes EnlightenNPCs don't show up at all and we are forced to disconnect and reconnect. Please fix. Had a picture to upload but it is too large, and I don't know how to downsize.

 

[BattleDash]

New system glitches. Sometimes EnlightenNPCs don't show up at all and we are forced to disconnect and reconnect. Please fix. Had a picture to upload but it is too large, and I don't know how to downsize.

I am aware of this. Disconnecting/Reconnecting is not a huge issue, might even call it a WONTFIX. It's most likely because your client was still loading when the server sent the packets that spawn the entities, causing them to not spawn at all. As far as I know there is no way to detect exactly when a player loads into the world from the server, so I'm not sure there's even anything I can do.

 

[Rebel]

thats a solid F in the chat

 

[BattleDash]

New system glitches. Sometimes EnlightenNPCs don't show up at all and we are forced to disconnect and reconnect. Please fix. Had a picture to upload but it is too large, and I don't know how to downsize.

I am aware of this. Disconnecting/Reconnecting is not a huge issue, might even call it a WONTFIX. It's most likely because your client was still loading when the server sent the packets that spawn the entities, causing them to not spawn at all. As far as I know there is no way to detect exactly when a player loads into the world from the server, so I'm not sure there's even anything I can do.

thats a solid F in the chat

About this, I made a ton of changes to the way EnlightenNPCs handles packet manipulation and entity spawning on join, and I believe this bug is now fixed (It hasn't happened to me yet), if one of you could confirm it, that'd be great, if you run into the bug again, please fill out a Bug Report

 

[Javyer12]

It's fixed. sometimes they don't spawn for a few seconds, but always end up spawning. good job!

 

[BattleDash]

It's fixed. sometimes they don't spawn for a few seconds, but always end up spawning. good job!

One of the changes is that EnlightenNPCs now waits 2 seconds after you join to send the NPC/ArmorStand packets

 

[Javyer12]

One of the changes is that EnlightenNPCs now waits 2 seconds after you join to send the NPC/ArmorStand packets

I have little to no idea what that means, but I'm glad it is all working.

 

[Silk]

Too many big words.