[TC] [AC] [Question] How can I get more female bots??

[GesiIvy128]

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Hello! Your project is amazing! Forgive me, this is my second question in a day:

I hope to have more female bots. I found an issue requesting a command to change gender. https://github.com/trickerer/Trinity-Bots/issues/619#issue-1873259296

Actually, I don't need you to develop that feature specifically. I have some database and LUA script knowledge, and what I want to ask is: Is it possible for me to customize the gender and appearance of those NPC bots myself?

In the ALL_world.sql file, I noticed that you've created the creature_template_npcbot_appearance table, which contains the gender for each bot. There's also a gender in the creature_template_outfits table. Additionally, in some other tables, there's a modelid1 variable, which I understand controls NPC appearances. So, would changing these gender and modelid1 values allow me to change the gender and appearance of the bots (after a server restart)?

Do you have more detailed advice?

I really want more female bots. For example, in the current templates, all the Alliance druid bots (which, of course, can only be Night Elves) are male! There are no female ones! This seems a bit unreasonable.

TrinityCore or AzerothCore

Both

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[trickerer]

Well, first of all leave creature_template_outfits table out - it doesn't contain any data for standard classes.

Yes, you need to change modelid1 in creature_template table to some valid model id of an opposite gender for that bot's race. Then you have to also change bot's gender in creature_template_npcbot_appearance table. And finally you'll need to manually correct all possible value overflows for new race/gender combination appearance details, as was mentioned in #619 (comment). I'm pretty sure you will also want to change their name, eh? Client cache purge is required in that case.

Be aware of the fact that I didn't do an intentional gender change of a bot like this myself, I only had to fix some nasty mistakes in bots generation.

As for why bot roster is what it is: all but few bots of standard classes were created based on existing class trainers, look at the names (!), guess what - all Night Elf Druid trainers are male.

[GesiIvy128]

Here's my custom for today:

I made three table modifications for the Paladin bot with entry=70061:

1. In creature_template_npcbot_extras, I changed the race to 4 (Night Elf).
2. In creature_template_npcbot_appearance, I switched the gender to 1 (female).
3. In creature_template, I updated modelid1 to 9551 (a female Night Elf NPC from Darkshore).

After clearing the cache and restarting the server, voila! I've got a female, Night Elf, Paladin!

I can hardly resist sharing this message with the brother from #619, lol~

[GesiIvy128]

The bad news is that the bug I discovered in the final part of #667 still persists. When I set NpcBot.Transmog.UseEquipmentSlots to 1, the appearances of all the weapons and shields on the bot vanish. All the robots are fighting bare-handed.

[trickerer]

About the transmog issue. I couldn't reproduce it, so please open a new issue with exact steps to reproduce it.