Katrina's Guide is a comprehensive tutorial and advanced users guide to building modules with the Neverwinter Nights 2 Toolset.
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Author's instructions
The Guide, Katrina's Guide to working within and around the Neverwinter Nights 2 Toolset, and the NWN2 Module, Katrina's Undead Menace, are both wholly written by me and my co-author RJ Tigg, and are copyrighted. The Guide cannot be distributed in whole or in part without permission. The module and its contents, on the other hand, are freely available to the community for use in their own modules without permission although we do wish to be credited should any scripts, conversations or other such components be used in their entirety.
File credits
The script, info_all_systems_includes, was created by E.C. and found in the public domain.
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Katrina's Guide is a comprehensive tutorial and advanced users guide to building modules with the Neverwinter Nights 2 Toolset. It will help you to become proficient in creating single-player, NWN2 modules. It assumes no prior knowledge of the Toolset and guides the reader through creating a small, but representative 3-area module. It discusses the basics like creating internal and external areas, creating new creatures, placeables and items, writing conversations, and setting up lights, stores, groups and encounters. But it goes beyond the basics and delves into the scripting system in detail, showing how to use the Action Queue and events, how to override default scripts to resurrect Players and NPCs, and how to use the Faction system for both good and evil players, among many other things. Non-programmers will find much of use within, but scripts are presented and discussed throughout.
Lastly, this guide comes with a companion NWN2 Module, Katrina's Undead Menace, that has the final versions for all of the areas, conversations, scripts and items discussed within the Guide.