Player Housing

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PLAYER HOUSING

Building, exporting, uploading, and maintaining Sinfar player homes.

Player houses are custom-built interiors uploaded as ERF files. They must follow Sinfar housing limits, use approved tilesets, include a valid main door, and avoid restricted content such as unsupported creatures, items, merchants, or scripts.

Quick Index

Basic Guidelines Minimum requirements, limits, and restricted content.	Acquiring a House Finding a house sign and using the realtor.	Building Your House Toolset setup, first area, ERF export, upload.	Using Scripts Default scripts, approved scripts, custom scripting.
Builder Guide External guide download.	Available Tilesets Housing Interior, Exterior Wild/Rural, Misc, Exterior City/Town, Caves/Dungeons, Catacombs/Sewers, Barrows/Crypts/Ruins.

Basic Guidelines

Required A player home must contain at least the following things: 1 2x2 area made of one of the allowed tilesets. A door with the tag MAIN_DOOR that will be used to leave the house. Choose a specific loading screen. The default loading screen is set to random, which is bad.

Allowed Building Options You can then choose: Area lightning Ambient music Placeables Sounds More doors Waypoints Triggers Visual effects More

Object Limits Each area can have up to: 1500 objects 250 dynamic objects A dynamic object is either: A non-static placeable A door A trigger A visual effect Sinfar Supporters limit is twice that amount: 500 dynamic 3000 static

You may not put in your own items or creatures, or any merchants or scripts beyond those supported on Sinfar's houses script list page.

Acquiring a House

Find a location: Player houses are characterized by a sign with a title such as "House #5", next to a door and the sign should say "For sale!" with the details on how the interior can be designed, for example: Go the the realtor: There's one for most islands or you can cheat and use the one in the OOC which is for all islands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q-MsU8YXZ0

Example house sale signs.

Building Your House

Open the Editor

The interior of you house can be built using the Neverwinter Nights Toolset.

You can start building with this module:

Sinfar v30 home module

Extract the module to your NWN\modules folder.

Extract the hak to your NWN\hak folder.

Create the First Area

Select one of the allowed tileset.

Select a size within the allowed range. The format on the deed is: Width x Height.

Add a door and set the tag to MAIN_DOOR.

This is the door that will be used to enter and leave the house, you don't have anything else to do, its transition will be setup automatically. It can have a custom appearance and the exterior door will be updated to have the same appearance.

Export the Area ERF(s)

Single-Area Home If your home is a single area, you can simply right click on the area in the left hand menu and select 'Export Area', this will prompt you to save the .erf file ready for uploading.

Multi-Area Home For a multi-area home you will need to use the resource exporter to create the ERF file of your areas: With the editor open, open the File menu and select Export this will open a new window will open to 'Export Resources', In the new window click 'Add Resources' which then opens up a new resource selection window, If necessary at the bottom change the 'Resources of Type:' selector to 'Area File', Select the areas you wish to export, and click 'Export' which will close the selctor dialog, Once you have all the areas you wish to export listed, click 'OK' and you will be prompted to save the created '.erf' file. After you have chosen the save filename and location you'll be prompted to add any comments to the ERF, you can click 'OK' again to leave the comments field empty. You should now have your .erf file ready to be uploaded to the server.

Upload the ERF

Open the House Upload Page.

Enter your house ID and secret code, both can be found by examining your deed in game.

Select your house erf, it should be in your NWN\erf folder.

You can optionally compress it.

Click the Upload button.

The server will process your erf, validate all areas and strip everything that is not allowed and if everything goes well, you will get a message saying that your house is now in game.

Using Scripts

Default Scripts Some objects will have a default scripts attached to them: Plot placeable with an inventory will have a script to make their inventory persistent

Approved Scripts You can use any of the scripts that are listed here: Scripts for houses You can find more details here: Custom Scripting.

Approved Script RestrictionsYou can only use one script per object

When an object is using a script from this list, it will not have a default script, so for example, a plot placeable with an inventory won't be persistent if it is using one of those scripts.

Each script has a specific list of variable and any other variable name/type will be automatically removed

Make sure to read the script description, some require that placeable by dynamic, some can only be use a certain number of time...

How to Make Scripts, Dialogs, Creatures and Other Restricted Blueprints for inside Your House

The housing system is made so that you can even make your own scripts for inside your house and they will have no effect outside of it when ran. This feature is although restricted to selected players and Sinfar Supporters.

Read more here:

https://sinfar.net/features/housing/custom_scripts

Sinfar Home Builders Guide

The Sinfar player home building guide may be found here:

Sinfar Home Builder's Guide

Available Tilesets

The following tilesets are currently listed for player housing.

Housing Interior

Name	Tileset
Castle Interior 1 [CEP]	tic01
Castle Interior 2	tni02
City Interior 1 [CEP]	tin01
City Interior 2	tni01
Drow Interior [CEP]	tid01
Elven Interiors, Marble	bvi80
Elven Interiors, Wooden	pie23
Fancy Castle	fla01
Fort Interior	twc03
Gothic Interior	gi
Illithid Interior	tii01
Medieval Keep Interior	tei02
Modern Office Interiors	udp2
NWN2 Houses	tms02
Oriental Interior	ori02
Sen's Rural Inn	sic11
Sigil, Stern Interior [CODI]	thv01
SJ Wood Interior	tis01
White Marble Castle	mbc30
Workshop	wks01

Exterior Wild/Rural

Name	Tileset
Barren Lands	isc03
Desert [CEP]	ttd01
Desert, Babylon [CTP]	tced0
Forest [CEP]	ttf01
Frozen Waste [CEP]	tti01
Medieval Forest	tfm01
Rural Grass [CEP]	ttr01
Rural Winter [CEP]	tts01
Swamps [CEP]	zkw01
Tropical	ttz01
Urban Wasteland	wlu01
Wild Woods	ttw01
Wildlands	twl01
Wildlands Winter	twl02
Worms Cypress Bayou	wcs10
Worms Dense Jungle	wdj01
Worms Desert Plains	wdp01
Worms Fantasy Interiors	wdd04
Worms Forest Summer	wsf10
Worms Jungle Mountains	tjj01
Worms Mirkwood Swamps	wms01
Worms Outer Limits	wcc01
Worms Scorched Earth	wlf01
Worms Undersea	wut01

Misc

Name	Tileset
Arena	tte30
Future, Secret Base	tcdh0
PHoD Bunker 1	fifi1
PHoD Bunker 2	fifi2
PHoD Bunker 3	fifi3
PHoD Metal Vault Interior	mbc31
PHoD Metal Wasteland 1	tsr02
PHoD Vault - Ancient	phodd
PHoD Vault - Exotic	phoda
PHoD Vault - Lumpy	phode
PHoD Vault - Murky	phodf
PHoD Vault - Strange	phodb
PHoD Vault - Tainted	phodc
Ship Interior	nex01
Starship Interiors	shp02
Worms Wagon Travel Interior	tms01

Exterior City/Town

Name	Tileset
Aztec Exterior	tze01
Castle Exterior, Rural	tno01
City Exterior [CEP]	tcn01
Complete Rural/City	tcr10
Elven Treetop City	thf02
Gothic Estates	gg
Medieval City	tcm01
Medieval Rural	trm01
Modern Suburbs	udp1
Oriental Rural	ori01
Sigil, Exterior [CODI]	tps01

Caves/Dungeons

Name	Tileset
Classic Dungeon	cdlif
Dungeon [CEP]	tde01
Dwarven Chasms	isc04
Eye of the Beholder	tei01
Mines and Caverns [CEP]	tdm01
Sea Caves	tdt01
Sen's Icy Caverns	sic01
Sen's Mines and Caverns	scv01
Sen's Underdark	sdg01
Underdark [CEP]	ttu01
Versatile Dungeon	tvd

Catacombs/Sewers

Name	Tileset
Catacombs	twl04
Sewers	tds01
Steamworks	tsw01
Undercity Sewer	isc02

Barrows/Crypts/Ruins

Name	Tileset
Barrows Interior	tbw01
Beholder Interior [CEP]	tib01
Crypts [CEP]	tdc01
Deep Dungeon	isc01
Ruins	tdr01

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