What Can Denizen Do With Citizens?
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Two-Way Connection
The integration Denizen has with Citizens actually works in two ways:
First, as you can guess, Denizen has a lot of scripting commands/tags/etc, specific to Citizens.
But in addition to that, Denizen also adds a variety of additional tools directly into Citizens. For example:
/npc mirrorskin
is a command made available by Denizen (which makes the NPC automatically mirror the viewing player's skin). Several "basic usage" commands are provided by Denizen, such as/npc sit
,/npc sneak
, and/npc invisible
. Denizen also provides several basic handy traits, like thehealth
trait or thefishing
trait.The two ways can also work together sometimes, such as this handy script that allows users to do
/npc skin --url [url here]
to set an NPC's skin from an image URL, or on a more simple level this quick helper script that allows users to add commands that an NPC will execute when it's right-clicked (these are both now built-in to Citizens, but previously those scripts were the only way to do it).
Questing
Of course, the most popular usage of the Denizen-Citizens connection is having NPCs that give and take part in RPG-style questing. Denizen has a fairly powerful set of systems dedicated to this specific task (but still generic enough that it can be used for other cases).
Conversations
The tools made available most ideally for RPG-style questing are also a great fit for anything that fits the model of players having a conversation with an NPC. This includes, for example, a conversation being the access point for an NPC's shop (which would then be handled by an inventory GUI Denizen script or similar).
Cutscenes
One neat thing that's achieved less often but always at least a thought-about-doing for many servers, is NPC-driven cutscenes. With a few careful usages of the walk
command, perhaps the rotate
command, and optionally the spectator functionality, it's pretty simple to write a Denizen script that uses NPCs to act out a scene in front of players.
Uniqueness
With Citizens on your server, you have statues. If you install Sentinel, you can have some guards. With Denizen included, you can have a unique server that feels truly alive. The only limit is how much dialogue/cutscene pathing/etc. you're willing to write!