Spellbooks Ideas [by Rasmus Romlev]

From: Rasmus 'Con' Ronlev 
Subject: Spellbooks

Mmm, well, the idea posted by Angus, is possible. It is good in the sense
that it only alocates memory when there is a need for a spell-book object
type.. (You still have a pointer allocation for each object I beleave).
On the other hand why bother with making a special object type structure ?
Use some of the 'spare' OBJ_VAL slots to store the spell-book spell, and
the amount of 'learned' it will add/delete from the char that uses the
spell book...... it's like the hit and damroll stored on WEAPON objects...

GET_OBJ_VAL(spellbookobj, 1)

/* use this for the spellnum
*/
GET_OBJ_VAL(spellbookobj, 2)

/* use this for the learn %
*/

See how it assigns the values in the db.c file when it loads in WEAPON
type objects, and modify the object loading code (as well as OLC if you
have it) to support an extra ITEM_xxxx flag (ITEM_SPELLBOOK), and add a
check for this ITEM into the recite code, as well as the look/examine
code, to detect if it's a spellbook, and you're set..

Think this is a semi-walkthrough (on a general non code basis) of how to
implement a spellbook item (going to do it this way myself some day), as
well as an item you can like HOLD, and if you do it also increases the
learned levels of spells/skills (same idea in assignign values), just
another way of checking how to add/remove the learned values given by the
object...

Guess I'm finnish(ed),
Con.

d.

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