CustomNPCs v1.6

[Foxikle]

New Features

• NPCs can now override the default Interactable Hologram.
• Indevidual NPCs can toggle having the Interactable Hologram, even if it is interactable.
• The NPC's escaped name is shown to the player whilst changing it. (Toggleable via the NameReferenceMessages field in the config.yml!)
• A new menu page to house the aforementioned items.
• A button to delete the NPC from within the menu
• A confirmation menu upon attempting to delete an NPC (Yes, even with the command. I may add a bypass flag in the future.)
• A button to set the NPC's pitch and yaw, so called its Facing Direction
• The /npc command now takes the RAW (unstylized) NPC name as an identifier. (ie. /npc edit foxikle's helper). This does support NPCs with spaces in their name.
  • Just a note about that, NPC UUIDs still work, they just are not supplied to the tab completion
• A new command to teleport to an NPC. /npc goto <NPC>
  • Requires the customnpcs.commands.goto permission
• A new command to move an NPC to you. /npc movehere <NPC>
  • Requires the customnpcs.commands.movehere permission
• A new command to clone an NPC to your current location. /npc clone <NPC>
  • Requires the customnpcs.commands.clone permission
• The Skin menu, the Action Customizer Menu, and the Condition Customizer Menu now all have click sounds
• The config version is now 5
• The NPC File version is now 1.6
• Backing up config.yml if it is irreparably damaged
• Importing your current armor to an NPC
• New skin menu
  • Import skins from a player's name
  • Import skins from a URL
  • Use the Skin Catalogue (Nothing changed here, but its in the skin menu)
• Added a tunnelvision option to npcs (Already an API feature)
  • A tunnelvisioned NPC does not look at nearby players
• An improved wiki *Its still a work in progress, so it's URL is https://docs.foxikle.dev, while the old wiki remains at https://foxikle.dev/plugins/wiki/customnpcs. The Javadocs have been moved to https://jd.foxikle.dev!
• A shiny new Menu System, written with WoodyMenus, Courtesy of @FlameyosSnowy
• A shiny new rework of the event listeners, vastly improving performance! Courtesy of @FlameyosSnowy
• The Teleport action now teleports players asynchronously, for more performance
• Multi-version support! (For now, 1.20-1.20.4)
• The plugin will now complain if an NPC's configuration is malformed/invalid, instead of refusing to enable.
• NPCs now default to being resilient

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error whilst making an NPC interactable if it previously wasnt.
• Fixed numerous issues with the ToggleFollowing action, ** WHICH IS NOW BROKEN, STAY TUNED FOR 1.7**
• Fixed setting armor displaying a message indicating the wrong slot was set. (It wasn't!)
• Fixed the plugin not enabling on 1.20 & 1.20.1, courtesy of @tomasalias
• A boat load of small fixes, improvements, and optimizations
• Fixed inconsistencies with the lore in the Equipment Menu
• Fixed importing player armor mutating the player's armor. (Changing the display name and lore)
• Fixed a serious issue whilst serializing actions under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bunch of issues relating to manually changing NPC Equipment
• Removed several debug messages
• Fixed NPC holograms sometimes not being removed properly

Developer changes

• Removed the old NPCApi.NPC class
• CustomNPCs now uses Lombok getters and setters
• Deprecated the old constructor for Settings to accommodate the new settings options
• Both the Settings and Equipment classes now have clone methods.
• The Equipment object now has a method to import from an EntityEquipment object.
• Action#getArgsCopy now returns a mutable list
• ActionType now has a field determining if the action can have a delay
• THE JAVADOCS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO https://jd.foxikle.dev/!!!

New Contributors

• @tomasalias made their first contribution in Update CustomNPCs.java #40
• @FlameyosSnowy made their first contribution in Significantly optimized every listener in Listeners.java #46

Full Changelog: v1.5.2...v1.6

Acknowlegdments

A huge thank you goes out to Nutric! He has been instrumental to this update through his patronage on Patreon!

That's it! Here is a little peek at the future of CustomNPCS!

1.7

• Action system revamp (API Support!)
• NPCs loading chunks
• QOL features suggested by none other than Nutric!

1.8

• NPC AI
• Re-introduction of the 'toggle following' action
• Different ai goals & pathfinders to apply
• Potentially a PVP bot? (unlikley...)

Cheers!
-Foxikle <3

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This discussion was created from the release CustomNPCs v1.6.