> > ObCircle: I was thinking about a polymorph spell, what problems can
> > people forsee with placing the char's body in a holding cell, and
> > moving their desc to a mob? on top of this, keeping the player
> > specials.
> >
>
> heeheeeeee, i LOVE this! I have just recently downloaded a copy of
> SMAUG codebase, and was thinking of converting their polymorph spell
> (yes i know it'll work) to CircleMUD.
>
> of course, this'll require either 1) a slight change to the spell_parser
> to also send a text field, or 2) sending the mob created as one of the
> char_data structures(not feasible in my mind), or 3) making it a skill,
> which would solve both problems :-P (of course i wanna get the spell thing
> working first)
>
> i was trying to figure out HOW to send a text field, but i can't find
> that control weather snippet (c 'control weather' better where 'better' is
> the textfield)
>
> anyone with insight on this? i'd appreciate it. thanks and i'll let you all
> know of my progress.
Yeah, I rewrote the spell code a while back to support multiple arguments
on spells, so you can do things like "cast 'fireball' tim 200" and lose
200 mana to do a 200 point fireball to tim, for example.
Also supports word arguments, like the control weather thing.
The number of arguments doesn't matter, either, so I rewrote locate
object to find objects with all of three keywords in the name, etc.
It requires an extra char* argument to be added to all spell functions,
call_magic, mag_affects, mag_itemmagic etc etc. You get the idea.
Chris
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