that works great for TAR_ROOM_CHAR and TAR_DOOR_CHAR, but what about
TAR_ROOM_WORLD and TAR_ROOM_MOB. hmm... i think i have come up something rather
flexible. Just pass this struct around filling in the required places, and
letting the TAR_* take care of which member is valid. I am really trying to
avoid manual spells, because I see a lot of these spells coming in.
struct spell_target {
struct char_data *tch;
struct obj_data *tobj;
struct room_direction_data *tdir;
struct room_data *troom;
struct someothertarget_data *tother; /* just an example */
};
and then we just set the targets we need and use the TAR_* flags to determine
which flags are needed.
--Angus
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Subject: Re: Spell Targets
Author: INTERNET:CIRCLE@POST.QUEENSU.CA at CSERVE
Date: 4/23/98 4:52 PM
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Angus Mezick wrote:
> Well, we all know that spells can be targeted at char's and obj's. but what >
about rooms and doors? I am trying to make a knock spell, but i am also trying
> to avoid passing the direction pointer around. what i am leaning towards is
> either adding the tdoor and troom along side the tch and tobj, or just go
ahead
> and put all four of them in to a tstruct and work it from there. Has anyone
> done this and have suggestions? We have delayed spells that do a countdown
> between cast_spell and call_magic.
I coded them as manual spells and used George's idea for spell
arguements. If you'll hit his page of patches, you'll find on there for
spell arguements. When I played with the idea, he had it listed under
"experimental", but should have moved it from there since there.
It worked quite well.
I also did the same thing for the ones that target the room, the few
spells that give the room affects, assume that the target is the room.
There is a "room affects" snippet out there somewhere. I think it's on
Alex's list of snippets. Works pretty well too.
John Evans <evansj@hi-line.net> -- http://www.hi-line.net/~evansj/
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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