DMFI Developer Package

This package is designed for builders and developers who will install the DMFI Tools into a working module.

DM-Friendly Initiative (DMFI) Tools Package is community-built package that aims to improve the player and DM experience in MP games. Your feedback and comments are welcome, see the link above to the DMFI forums.

The NWN2 version represents brand new code with a new structure from the ground up. We have been fortunate to have several very talented professional programmers from within the NWN1 community contribute to helping create this new foundation. This is a project that has been in serious development for over 6 months with initial discussions dating back over a year.

MAJOR FEATURES

100% UI Driven

The current DMFI Tools do not use listeners, instead the entire package is UI driven.

Commands

New UIs and additions to the context menu provide far better access to commands!

Text Entry UI

A new text entry box supports voice throws, languages, emotes, and player messaging through one nice interface - again with no listeners.

Documentation

Version 1.10 readme file included, along with an example demo/tutorial mod to help ease you into the package.

NEW FEATURES IN 1.10

• The target tool: this new UI screen will take care of all the functions in the old contextmenu. It's separated by two panes, one for the server options and another for the object options. It will show the name of the current target and the buttons will fire the commands.
• The manager tool: This UI screen will store items and creatures in a database to retrieve them later. Up to 20 slots.
• Battle tool: 2 more buttons to add or decrease Spell Resistance.
• Placeables: Make placeable "plot", destroy placeable, and destroy placeables in 3 different radius.
• Report Location: will show a screen with PC's locations, PublicCDKeys, Current Hit Points and debug numbers.
• Weather: added weather functions.
• GetOutOfMyWay: fires the new OEI joke, gets players out of the way who are around you.
• Jump a party to DM: Jump all players to DM and jump player to his party leader.
• Create Teleport Portals.
• Send Message Popups to all players or targeted party.
• Added FOLLOW buttons to DM bar.
• VFX Tool, added support for Custom NWN2 effects. Just type the name of the effect and fire it on location or target.
• Added a little button to DMFI text which allows a player's language to be changed quickly.

DOWNLOAD

• Download the v1.10b developer package.

INSTALLATION

• Installation of DMFI files into your own mod: associate the DMFI version 1.10 hak with your mod, import the included erf file, compile module scripts. Place the dmfi_mod_pcload script in the On PC Loaded Script event of your module.

1.10 PATCH NOTES:

Fixes:

• DMFI Tools now work with NWN2 and Mask of the Betrayer patch 1.10
• Added support for DisplayguiScreen() updated function. This means you no longer need a modified .ini file.
• Support for Mask of the Betrayer content: appearances, music, ambient sound.
• Languages: DMs could not understand racial languages while possessing NPCs. Fix provided by Dragonsbane777.
• Languages: previously any chat line starting with a number crashed the system. (However, see below known issues)
• CopyObject (used for making copies of PCs): copies were previously hostile faction and lootable. Fix provided by Dragonsbane777.

Known issues:

• Languages: only text between quotation marks (" ") or apostrophes (' ') will appear if these are used in chat, not the rest of the chat line. This occurs because of the XML processor and cannot be fixed at this time, but a work-around is available: put the entire chat line in quotation marks.
• If you start a phrase on the chat line with a number, the server/module still has a 10% chance to crash. Hopefully OEI will fix this in a future as sometimes the string values are interpreted as integers.

Feedback and suggestions are always welcomed. Visit the DMFI guild forums for discussion and latest news.

Legacy

On the old IGN Vault, this was a Hall of Fame winner with a score of 9.91 out of a possible 10, based on 35 votes. Here is the archived file download table: