Items Ownership, Metadata and Stealing - Revision history

Silvematt: /* Looting Points */

2023-08-26T16:35:05Z

Looting Points

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	== Looting Points ==		== Looting Points ==
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	In fact, what really counts is the Metadata assigned to each item in the '''Inventory''' component of the Looting Point. This is done to allow placing in Looting Points items that belongs to different characters (or nobody).		In fact, what really counts is the Metadata assigned to each item in the '''Inventory''' component of the Looting Point. This is done to allow placing in Looting Points items that belongs to different characters (or nobody).

Silvematt: /* Items Ownership */

2023-08-26T16:33:22Z

Items Ownership

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	== Merchants and Stolen Items ==		== Merchants and Stolen Items ==
			Merchants can be set to buy or not stolen items, in addition to that, the Update '''1.6''' also added the '''Buy/Sell''' multipliers, to avoid flat economy in the game:

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Silvematt: /* Items Ownership */

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Items Ownership

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-Looting Points can also be owned, and their ownership will change the Interface when the Player looks at said point. It does '''not''' automatically assign ownership to all the Items in the Looting Point, but you can do so easily by Right-Clicking on the "Looting Point (Script)" header (in blue in the image above) and then click on "'''''Apply LootingPoint Ownership to Items'''''".
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-Note that an Item without '''ownership''' placed in a LootingPoint '''owned''' by someone will not be considered a crime if the player takes it.
+In fact, what really counts is the Metadata assigned to each item in the '''Inventory''' component of the Looting Point. This is done to allow placing in Looting Points items that belongs to different characters (or nobody).
 == Pickpocketing ==

Silvematt at 16:10, 26 August 2023

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 The red hand icon shows that the Item was stolen, and it may not be sold to merchants unless they are set to also buy stolen items.
-By default, when the Player steals an Item the owner of the Item is the only one that can do something about it, if the owner sees the player stealing one of his items, he will attack him.
+By default, when the Player steals an Item the owner of the Item is the only one that can do something about it, if the owner ''sees'' the player stealing one of his items, he will attack him.
 This behavior can be changed in the function '''''CheckPlayerStealsItem(...)'' in the [[RCKFunctions]].cs''' script, for example, you may want to trigger a special dialogue and make that the NPC takes the item back, or you may want to have guards to also look for other people's items.

Silvematt: Created page with "An Item In World owned by ''Adelinde Venturia'' The Update '''1.6''' of the RPG Creation Kit brought a new essential component for the '''Items''' System that is '''metadata''', this component allows for items ownership, stealing and pickpocketing. The metadata, regarding the Items, allows us to store unique information about a single '''instance''' of an Item, for example, who's the owner of that item, what are the conditions of the i..."

2023-08-26T16:00:25Z

Created page with "thumb|An Item In World owned by ''Adelinde Venturia'' The Update '''1.6''' of the RPG Creation Kit brought a new essential component for the '''Items''' System that is '''metadata''', this component allows for items ownership, stealing and pickpocketing. The metadata, regarding the Items, allows us to store unique information about a single '''instance''' of an Item, for example, who's the owner of that item, what are the conditions of the i..."

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[[File:Itemsmeta 1.png|thumb|An Item In World owned by ''Adelinde Venturia'']]
The Update '''1.6''' of the RPG Creation Kit brought a new essential component for the '''[[Items]]''' System that is '''metadata''', this component allows for items ownership, stealing and pickpocketing.

The metadata, regarding the Items, allows us to store unique information about a single '''instance''' of an Item, for example, who's the owner of that item, what are the conditions of the item and which enchants are applied to that item.

== Items Ownership ==
As for '''v1.6''', the metadata only stores information about '''Ownership''' of an item, which allows us to track which items are owned by NPCs and which are free for the Player to take. In every '''Item In Inventory''' and '''[[Item In World]]''' reference you will find a '''Metadata''' section:

'''[[Item In World]]:'''

[[File:Itemsmeta 2.png]]

''A bottle of wine placed in the "CityKingPalace" cell, owned by The King''

'''Item In Inventory:'''

[[File:Itemsmeta 3.png]]

''An Armor Equipment item placed in the Inventory of the NPC "Lanius"''

The flag '''Is Owned''' is true when someone else that is not the Player owns that item, and '''Owner ID''' states the ID of the owner. When '''Is Owned''' is false, the Item doesn't belong to anyone, and the Player is free to take it.

On the other hand, when the Player takes an owned item this is considered '''stealing'''.

== Stealing ==
[[File:Itemsmeta 4.png|thumb|When looking at an Item the interface will clearly show if someone owns it.]]
When a player steals an item, this will be represented in a special way in the Inventory:

[[File:Itemsmeta 5.png]]

The red hand icon shows that the Item was stolen, and it may not be sold to merchants unless they are set to also buy stolen items.

By default, when the Player steals an Item the owner of the Item is the only one that can do something about it, if the owner sees the player stealing one of his items, he will attack him.

This behavior can be changed in the function '''''CheckPlayerStealsItem(...)'' in the [[RCKFunctions]].cs''' script, for example, you may want to trigger a special dialogue and make that the NPC takes the item back, or you may want to have guards to also look for other people's items.