Re: Jesus walked on water...

From: Benjamin Draper (satrycus@DRACHENBURG.DEMON.CO.UK)
Date: 10/17/97


SirHomerJ@AOL.COM wrote: One more idea on whether or not items should
float on the water.  I agree

> with objects of zero weight floating, but I would also add an
> ITEM_FLOAT flag
> or whatever that you would only put on like a wood staff or something
> that
> would obviously float on water.  Also, corpses would have to float,
> too.
>  (Probably just player corpses so that there aren't hundreds of mobs
> you have
> to steer around in your little canoe.)  You could probably dump their
> inventory and held items into the water, but leave their eq on.
>

I use ITEM_METAL, ITEM_ORGANIC, etc. for other stuff in my mud, so it's
just a question of comparing an object's weight to it's composition.
   For example, the metal key wouldn't float, because it's too heavy,
but the bread would even if it's the same weight.

Satrycus


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