Thread: Make NPC only visible to those with a special item!

I found this great tutorial and I want to share it to MMOpro!

Ever wanted to make an item that reveals hidden NPCs when equipped?
I managed to do it and now wish to share this information with everyone...

1.)
First things first, make your NPCs! You can do this on WoW-V ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) or by hand in your SQL DB.
Make sure to set the appropriate flags for vendors or trainers, whatever you're making.
(Note: If you plan on using an NPC that is already spawned, you may have to delete & respawn them.)

2.)
Second, it's time to make them invisible! Now what we're going to do is make the NPCs cast [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] on themselves at spawn. We're going to do this two ways to make double sure that they cast it!

Go into your World DB tables with whatever you use (Navicat, Heidi, etc..) Open the table 'creatures_proto'.
Sort by Entry column, find the Entry # you used for your NPC. In that row, you should see columns called
spell1, spell2, spell3 & spell4. Change the value of all of those columns to 44801. Now after those columns
there is a column called spell_flags. Put a 2 in there. That makes them cast it while out of combat.

And now we're going to script the cast on Spawn. Copy the code below, and paste it into notepad or whatever
simple text editor your OS uses. Change "YOUR-NPC'S-ENTRY-ID" in the script to, you guessed it, your NPC's
entry ID #. Save as any filename, just change extension to .lua & put it into your scripts folder.

Code:

function NPC_OnSpawn(Unit, Event)
Unit:CastSpell(44801)
end

RegisterUnitEvent(YOUR-NPC'S-ENTRY-ID, 18, "NPC_OnSpawn")

Thanks to Kaidos for helping me sort the OnSpawn Event Number!

Restart your server.
Your NPC should now be invisible!:hsdance::hugglez::woot2:

3.)
But wait! Now you can't see them either! Well, make you an item (you can do this with WoW-V, just
click the switch mode on 'ITEM BONUSES' section) and put spell 44801 as an equip bonus.
This spell will not show anything in the tooltip for the item in-game, but the equip bonus is there.
Run the SQL from WoW-V on your world DB, go ingame, type .ser reload items, then add the item to your
character, and when equipped, you will see these NPCs. Take it off, they're gone!

I made a pre-made item you can use if you'e lazy, but if you use it please vote it up so it won't get deleted:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

A FEW NOTES: Sometimes GMs can see the NPCs without the item on. I think it's just GMs that have
equipped the item before, so it might just be a cache issue, but normal players who have not had spell 44801
cast on them & don't have an item with that spell on it to equip, will not see these NPCs.

So if you log-in and don't have the item equipped, but still see the NPCs, don't freak out! Normal Players
won't see them. You can equip & unequip the item to get them to disappear from your vision again.

interesting nice :P could use it for my fun server :P

Hehe :P

thanks for the share, this is really useful xD

i like that :) Nice, i like how he's "Invisablie" lol

nice share very useful =D

Nice