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PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject:

Archers should be all about bows.
Elemental arrows would be really cool.
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Agent of Dread · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

Hell yeah! Very Happy

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Zefz · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

I see two way to handle this. Either we do it through enchant.txt and script in every longbow and xbow weapon to check if the user has special longbow skill OR we make a script into the archer.obj to enchant any bow he is holding.

If we want to do this script only, we would need a new function: SetTargetToWeaponThatHit
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PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject:

That would be useful, I bet.
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Maxaxle · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:44 am Post subject:

I think that the Archer's weapons should be charged by his/her abilities, so that other classes couldn't use these fancy weapons.
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Chainsaw · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

Using an enchant may not be a very good Idea, because I want the damage bonus to increase with levels, and because I need the enchant for his unlockable power (+5 Dex, +10 Acc), so a new command is probably the best way.
(Unless there are ways to use variables like selflevel in enchant files, in which case I'll come up with a power that doesn't require enchants...)

By the way, you guys seem to have a misconception of what I'm doing here, and so to not dissapoint anyone later:

I'm not making a fantasy style archer with elemental arrows and fancy stuff like that, we have the Elf for that.
His background is more like of an average medieval archer. He is an army man, a hunter and a tactician.

Now, don't clog this thread up, if you have anything else to say about the archer, do so in the classes topic.
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woodmouse · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

I am making a longsword. I found a great sword from... somewhere... and... edit it a little. And... ummmmmm... Well, it's long and thin.
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Zefz · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

Archer/Ranger? To keep it originally nethack, the ranger is one of the base classes.
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Chainsaw · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

@Zefz:
How do I check if a target is holding anything?
I don't want to check for specific items or IDs, just check if a target is holding anything at all.

Unless you can add that function and make a new relase soon, I think I'll just modify the crossbow and longbow scripts.
Edit: Sorry, forgot to say I'm referring to the SetTargetToWeaponThatHit function you suggested.

Just one more thing, is this formula written correctly for Egoboo?:
(I have no way to test how accurately it works...)

It's supposed to be ( 0 through 256 + 128 ) times ( wielder's level divided by two )

woodmouse · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject:

Ooooh... I can't wait you get it finished...
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

You can see if a target is holding any idsz by using [NONE] as the argument. This should be the same as what you're saying.

One thing that you need to be aware of is that egoboo just evaluates from left to right without parentheses or operator precedence

in egoboo,

tmpargument = a + b * c
means

tmpargument = (a + b) * c
not what you would normally expect!

so, in our case, you would want something like

Chainsaw · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject:

Great, thank you.
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Chainsaw · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

Can someone provide me with a list of all possible message variables (%n, %c, %t, etc.)?
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Clonkinator · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

Chainsaw · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject:

Thank you.
(Are you talking about the Manual? Because I can't read it myself, Acrobat Reader is being a bi***.)

By the way, It says both the second and third skins are %2.
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