NPCs

Narrative Pro has a new NPC Subsystem which handles the spawning, creation, finding and all properties for NPCs.

All NPC details are stored as data assets, then spawned and managed by the Subsystem.

Creating a new NPC

To create a new NPC, Narrative Pro comes packaged with a data asset type called ``.

Open Your Content Drawer -> Go to the folder where you want to store NPC Data Assets -> Right Click -> Miscellaneous -> Data Asset

Select NPCDefinition and name it after your NPC. It will automatically populate some of the information based on the file name.

Spawning an NPC

Using the NPC Manager you can spawn NPCs by getting the Narrative NPC Subsystem -> Spawn NPC

Another method of spawning NPC's into the world is to use Settlements

Data Asset Properties

Name	Type	Description
NPCID	FName	FName ID for this NPC
NPCName	FText	The name of this NPC. Will be used for the interaction and navigation markers.
Faction	ObjectPtr<class UFactionDefinition>	The NPC's faction, if one applies.
bAllowMultipleInstances	bool	Is this NPC unique, or can we spawn multiple of them? Main characters, for example, generally only want a max of one spawned at a time, whilst a generic bandit might have as many instances as we want.
bInvulnerable	bool	If true, we'll apply the Narrative.State.Invulnerable tag to this NPC by default - it can be removed if needed.
UniqueNPCGUID	FGuid	If this NPC is unique, we'll use this as the NPC's save system GUID. Since there is only one unique GUID defined here, this will nicely guarantee unique NPCs only ever have 1 save record created per NPC.
NPCClassPath	TSoftClassPtr<ANarrativeNPCCharacter>	The default class to create when spawning this NPC.
Dialogue	TSoftClassPtr<UDialogue>	The dialogue that should play when we interact with this NPC.
TaggedDialogues	TArray<FTaggedDialogue>	The NPC's tagged dialogues; these are essentially dialogue, usually free movement that can be kicked off via a tag "TaggedDialogue.Taunt, TaggedDialogue.Greet, etc."
bIsVendor	bool	Whether this NPC's inventory should be a vendor inventory.
TradingCurrency	int32	Default currency this character should have in their inventory.
TradingItemLoadout	TArray<FLootTableRoll>	The items we should grant the character by default.
ShopFriendlyName	FText	The name of the vendor's shop, if this NPC is a vendor.
DefaultApperance	UCharacterAppearance	The characters default appearance