Disguise functionality and a gofundme
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Disguise functionality and a gofundme
In one of the threads that appeared about disguises recently, it was brought up that there is a potential fix, but the programmers cannot do it right now. Someone suggested creating a gofundme to pay them for their time, I'd like to bring this up again as a serious suggestion.
Would the programmers be interested in this, or are they just straight up too busy for it?
How would this be done, would it be based on an hourly rate? What kind of estimated goal are we looking at here? After every NWNEE update if the functionality needs to be updated, realistically how long will it take because that's something that needs to be accounted for as well.
I've got a vague idea of what programmer hourly rates look like. Freelance game programmers can get $60-80 per hour. I understand that a programmer's time costs $$$. But I'd like to know if this is something we could band together to pay for, and if updating it after patches is something we could also pay for.
Would the programmers be interested in this, or are they just straight up too busy for it?
How would this be done, would it be based on an hourly rate? What kind of estimated goal are we looking at here? After every NWNEE update if the functionality needs to be updated, realistically how long will it take because that's something that needs to be accounted for as well.
I've got a vague idea of what programmer hourly rates look like. Freelance game programmers can get $60-80 per hour. I understand that a programmer's time costs $$$. But I'd like to know if this is something we could band together to pay for, and if updating it after patches is something we could also pay for.
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This is a slippery slope. Making money through this means could be a violation of copyright rules with anything DnD related and money even if it is for a good cause which I would still donate if it went through. I would make sure it would not violate any copyright rules.
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
Would this be any different than using patreon to earn money for a server? Are there any people in the nwn community who do commission work for assets or scripts? It would be paying someone to program a script that is related to custom content for the game and not the game itself, is this different than paying someone to make art of characters which is also custom content related to the game but not the game itself?
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
Pay the NWNX folk to hurry it the heck up then.
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
That's what this thread is about. Someone suggested we start a gofundme for it. I have no idea who their devs are or if they'd even be willing to. That's what I'm asking.
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
lmao I misread this and thought you wanted to pay our own devs to fix it.
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
Well, for starters you should probably ask the NWNX devs about it. A cursory google page leads me to their contact page.
https://www.nwnx.org/index.php?id=contact
https://www.nwnx.org/index.php?id=contact
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
Money isn't going to help. I've spoken with the NwNX team about this.
Evidently, the old way of doing new names is no longer functional (i.e. dynamic names would require a plugin update every single patch--quite the arduous task). However, it would apparently be trivial to create a function that overrides the name permanently; with this kind of function, it would be possible to fix the disguise system, though it would require a rewrite of some of Arelith's internal logic.
ETA? I don't know. I asked about this a couple months back and was told, "It's a 30 minute fix. Sometime over the weekend." I haven't seen any plugin updates since, aside from a minor one that adds the ability to adjust a creature's challenge rating (released just today).
Evidently, the old way of doing new names is no longer functional (i.e. dynamic names would require a plugin update every single patch--quite the arduous task). However, it would apparently be trivial to create a function that overrides the name permanently; with this kind of function, it would be possible to fix the disguise system, though it would require a rewrite of some of Arelith's internal logic.
ETA? I don't know. I asked about this a couple months back and was told, "It's a 30 minute fix. Sometime over the weekend." I haven't seen any plugin updates since, aside from a minor one that adds the ability to adjust a creature's challenge rating (released just today).
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
I have 0 understanding of nwn plugins, but how come it needs an update with every update of NWN ? doesnt the code it adds (or whatever it does) only change if the NWN changes that specific code.. or something like that?
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
I've submitted a change to make SetName() work on PCs. It will probably be in the next game patch. After that, it's up to the Arelith developers to hook it up and make it work.
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
I would really like to see this fixed as well.
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
I saw someone talk about this on one of the Beamdog streams. It would definitely be nice! =)
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I basically stopped playing a character when EE dropped because of this. I want this back so bad
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Re: Disguise functionality and a gofundme
How long until next update do you think? Weeks? Months? This is great, I'm so happy.