Designate NPC to npc door

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Designate NPC to npc door

Post by kkaizer » April 17th, 2019, 7:32 pm

Is it possible to select npcs and designate them to a certain npc door?
Also I found this NPC door fix by buzzler at MTS and with this mod, can I set a door as a npc door in a residential lot? Or does it still have to be a LN apartment style lot?

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Designate NPC to npc door

Post by sittingbear » April 18th, 2019, 12:47 am

No you can't AFAIK assign NPC's to a specific NPC door.
A LN style apartment is a residential lot so I don't see why not.

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Designate NPC to npc door

Post by igazor » April 18th, 2019, 4:52 am

That's not entirely true. You can use MasterController's Add Sim to "add" a selected already homeless NPC to an already established NPC Door. Be sure to click on an NPC Door, not a regular door and not anywhere else on the lot, so as to not accidentally make a resident out of the NPC. In my experience though, that does "add" them to the building and assign them to an NPC only area, but into which such unit they may retreat to hibernate in if there are several within the same building tends to be random and inconsistent. The only way I've found to summon the exact NPC wanted is to then use the call box that is usually in the lobby, merely ringing the NPC Door's bell seems to cause some random NPC also assigned to the building to answer, if they are available. I'm not entirely sure about the randomness thing, that could be my mind playing tricks on me or it was the case whenever I saw this that the NPCs had "moved around" on me within the same building.

What Buzzler's mod does is allow the designation of NPC Doors when the door and the NPC only area are not necessarily interior to the building -- say one side of either faces the outdoors. I don't see how that can have impact unless there is a Hidden (Private) Room Marker in the room behind the door and a Public Room Marker in the hallway leading up to the door, if both sides of the door face the interior, or some other way for the NPCs to gain access in and out. If this is indeed the setup, then your residential lot has become a LN style building (that could then use a call box in a common area). There is no special designation for LN apartments, they are as sittingbear said, just regular residential lots and they do not need to be highrises.

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