you make a dropset preset in the dropset menu of your profile and assign what items are going to be dropped via preset and then go to an npc or entity and assign the dropset to either on death or on damage

How do you use the dropset feature?

I think the spawn on ceiling flag broke

@Qooji my method to make crates actually drop items is to make an entity be prop_physics, then give them the hl2 crate model, then set its hp to 1, make a dropset, and have it drop those items upon damage

how can you make npcs that are normaly hostile friendly to one another? ive tried using the relationship inward and outward values but they dont seem to work for me

@Qouji Customizable Entity Spawner my friend. It only works on maps with nodegraphs though.

Can you add support for the "item_item_crate" point entity? Using keyvalues to set the ItemClass that it drops doesn't seem to work at all.

For some weird reasons after a crash the addon doesn't consider me as an admin of my own solo server despite crashing many times before with it and never had this happen.

Why is Despawn not working. Not under any circumstances. Whatever the settings are, Despawn doesn't work. NPCs can exhaust their entire spawn limit, I fly to the other end of the map and they stop appearing. And there is no information anywhere on how to set up Despawn correctly.

add some sort of 3d/2d simulation for presets when switching colors/textures/bodygroups/etc.

How the fuck does bodygroups work

The cvar "npcd_coroutine_framelimit" causes lag spikes if left at the default value.

this is a really well thought out addon, nice work, but my god configuring a spawn beacon without any visualization is genuine torture

If you add the ability to create tables of entities for use that would be great.

Is there a way to created designated spawnpoints for teams for the auto-spawner? I've been struggling messing with the "Only Use Spawn Beacon" in the spawnpools and "Spawn Beacon: true" on an entity but can't seem to get it to work. I've tried setting spawn radiuses so that nothing should be denied, yet I can't get squads to spawn other than the Beacon itself. Even so it seems to spawn several beacons even when I set the pool entity and squad limits to 1.

Also is there a schedule setup that can have an NPC be near a designated target (like their hive queen for example) that doesn't involve them wandering off into nowhere or constantly running into their target?

@male_07 npcd_settings_open opens the profile editor

@male_07 Don't think you can. But it's easily accessible under either the options menu.

For some reason, scaling doesn't work on some npcs or just crashes the game. Is there any way to fix this? (I want to make enemies smaller so they could go through doors)

is there any way to make scripted entities spawn with modified properties? you know how you can right click a bouncy ball and it'll say "edit properties" at the bottom and from there you can change a bunch of stuff in it, how do you change those properties in the NPCD menu?

How do i make nextbots ignore/be friendly towards regular npcs. I tried the "Relationships" option where you can set them to be friendly or hostile. I set it as friendly for both but the NPC and the Nextbot keep attacking eachother anyway.

Any way to have npcs spawn with their default weapons? Im using some NPCs who switch weapons dynamically and it seems to be messing them up.

One of the most technically impressive Gmod addons and the best spawner along with background NPCs PERIOD. The sheer amount of customizability is absurd and the UI is simple but in-depth. Great job, Sock.

whenever you return back to being able to update the mod, a condition where npcs can passively spawn other npcs would be nice, with a modifiable position of where they can spawn them (i.e an enemy thats fixed to the ceiling and certain npcs set spawn from it)

Honestly given how long ago and feature rich this addon is im surprised there even is updates to begin with.

Personally I say don't sweat it. You've done alot of work for this tool so far so I think a break is well overdue.

ah, sorry about updates slowing down recently. I've been overwhelmed this semester at school, so it'll be a while

is conditional spawning still ever gonna become a thing? would still like it

Lol

i fixed it, i was just messing with the radiuses too much lol

also, when i spawn the chaos kit, i instantly get messages that the npcs have been defeated (antlioness has been defeated, drone warfare has been defeated)

nah that's not it, they were spawning before. maybe its some setting or something else?

@cityn Check around the map. Sometimes enemies spawn in weird places. You might have hit your npc limit without realizing it because the npcs are spawning outside the normal map area or something. Use noclip to check.

other npcs cant spawn now too :/

for some reason combine doesn't spawn. other npcs like antlions and zombies spawn.

I may have forgotten to mention the fact that the command to reset convars alongside the button to do so in Options is not working

how do I reset my convars? the reset convars button doesn't work and for some reason my radiuses are too big, resulting in zero spawns

Is it possible to make a survival minigame with this addon? Like how weaker enemies spawn at wave 1 and then it gets progressively harder until wave 10. It could be right underneath the "Help" button in the NPCD tab.

i thought this would of been a controlling npc that summons minions, but this is more interesting.

well to be exact itll drop it on them if either the npc doesnt have Give() or what youre trying to give is not classified as a weapon

if it drops the weapon on them instead of equipping it that means the npc internally does not have the Give() function. its up to whoever made the npc to handle code for giving weapons.

@Blackstaff It's near the very top near the setting where you pick the npc itself. You can even give npcs weapons even if it's an npc that can't usen them normally. Such as giving manhacks the hl2 pulse rifle.

Kind of clueless. Is there any way to give lua NPCs (it's what I'm assuming this entity is) weapons on spawn? Currently, the script ordains itself to drop whatever weapon is defined ontop of it's head, instead of giving it to them directly. Normal weapon overrides through context menu work as expected, even when spawned through NPCD tab. Is there any solution here?

I'm not actually sure what button you're talking about, but if you ever delete a profile (accidentally or otherwise) it will be moved to garrysmod/data/npcd/trash/

OKAY NEVERMIND WE'RE GOOD, JESUS FUCK I was scared I just PERMANENTLY fucked my file

okay this is really bad, I can't find ANYTHING, the NPCs are fucking gone:tm:, everything is gone, I don't know what to do, please help

So uhm, I may have just fucked up, I hit 'Clear NPC Profiles' and everything's gone, I dunno what to do, how do I have to reinstall the addon?

Oh, wish I thought of that! Thanks a bunch!

Radiuses have the value "Spawn Distance Hard Minimum" to stop them from spawning too close, though sometimes the spawn velocities push enemies closer than you'd expect.

I wish there was an exclusion area for player spawning in this addon. NPCs and ents like to spawn next to me for some reason

Are you thinking of perhaps adding spawnpoints for NPCs? This would be extremely useful for scenario building in case you want them to spawn in a specific area and not just haphazardly around the map.

is it possible to set up a behavior similar to a shotgunner? There are a ton of shotguns for NPCs, but they are absolutely useless for these same NPCs (they behave like a combine with an SMG that shoots from afar)