Ctrl-Shift-ing for BoDs

[Sweeney]

When I want to get BoDs, it's not enough that the npc is visible or shows up under ctrl-shift.. in order to pull up the npc menu I am forced to right-click (close) all of the static items that also show up under ctrl-shift. Only when the npc's ctrl-shift bar is not touching any other ctrl-shift bars am I able to drag their bar.

This is a pet peeve!

 

[Dermott of LS]

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You can change the Object Handles to filter out certain things. Your choices are:

Dynamic Objects (i.e. everything not part of the scenery)
Corpses
NPCs
NPC Vendors
Mobiles (players, MPCs, animals, and monsters)

If you're using one of our custom mods, you'll see a small bar with one of those options listed, you can use the contect menu on the bar to swap between the various filters.

Makes things a LOT easier.

 

[Sweeney]

But that will mess with the other aspects of my game yes?

I just want any left-click on any ctrl-shift handle to pull up the appropriate menu.

I know there are work-arounds.. I want a fix.

 

[Old Man of UO]

You can use a script macro command to turn on just the NPC Object handles:

script SystemData.Settings.GameOptions.objectHandleFilter = SystemData.Settings.ObjectHandleFilter.eNPCFilter
script UserSettingsChanged()


then a script to turn object handles back to everything once again:

script SystemData.Settings.GameOptions.objectHandleFilter = SystemData.Settings.ObjectHandleFilter.eDynamicFilter
script UserSettingsChanged()


It's very fast and should do what you want. If you want to filter other object handles, the command scripts are on this page:
http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/show_content.php?content=30975