The Actors of Your MMO - Wizards and Warriors: Massively Multiplayer Online Game Creation - page 140

t need to be associated with a gender, for example
an animal or alien. You can select from the following options, male
and female, male only, female only, and no gender.
l Home Faction : Defines the actor

actor who doesn '

' s faction. In the case of the topic ' s

default project, there are two factions, humans and traders.
l Description : Type a description for the actor.
n Properties : The properties area consists of four additional tabs

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Behaviour, Appearance, Attributes, and Preview.
l Behaviour : Main configuration options for the actor.
l Appearance : Change the appearance of an actor.
l Attributes : Change, add, or delete an attribute.

Preview: A small preview window of the actor.

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Note

Above the Setup field are three buttons New Actor, Duplicate Actor, and Delete Actor. These

buttons allow you to create a new actor, copy an already created actor, or delete an actor from the
left actors tree pane.

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Note

If you were creating an MMO from scratch you would remove the current actors and replace them
with your own. These are the default actors that allow you to test the MMO client straight away
without needing to do any initial work.

Note

Attributes are values that are assigned to an actor that contain things such as human character-
istics and skills. Examples of attributes include health, mana, and swimming.

The following sections discuss the Properties tab ' s options in more detail.

Modifying Actor Behavior
The Behaviour tab contains configurable items associated with the selected
actor; Figure 8.3 shows the available options.