Grimrock

crisman wrote:Okay, I'll check the script completely, I'm afraid I forgot something in copy/paste... or worse
EDIT: I've just copied and pasted on a very fresh dungeon, and it's working fine. So... I'm not sure what's the problem.
try using "fireburst" instead of "fireburst3" matbe that's the problem.

Currann wrote:I have just started playing around with scripting,cand caught on pretty quickly, but I was wondering if there was a way to clone a spell like you can do for an item. Thanks ahead of time.

Merethif wrote:

crisman wrote:Okay, I'll check the script completely, I'm afraid I forgot something in copy/paste... or worse
EDIT: I've just copied and pasted on a very fresh dungeon, and it's working fine. So... I'm not sure what's the problem.
try using "fireburst" instead of "fireburst3" matbe that's the problem.

Nope, still the same problem. Let's wait and see how does it work for others.
I'll check everything again tomorrow.

a:setTriggeredByMonster(false)

Grimwold wrote:Explosive Mine

Merethif wrote:

crisman wrote:Okay, I'll check the script completely, I'm afraid I forgot something in copy/paste... or worse
EDIT: I've just copied and pasted on a very fresh dungeon, and it's working fine. So... I'm not sure what's the problem.
try using "fireburst" instead of "fireburst3" matbe that's the problem.

Nope, still the same problem. Let's wait and see how does it work for others.
I'll check everything again tomorrow.

I just tried it in the editor and when the snail moved onto the mine I got grimrock.exe not responding.

After a lot of debugging and hudPrinting, it seems to be a problem with the a:destroy in the detonate() function.. I commented out everyhting and then gradually added stuff back until I was left with just the "spawn fireburst3" and the "a:destroy"... I took a guess that the problem was with the spawn, so I uncommented the destroy first.. but that's what caused it to crash!


EDIT. Yeah the fireburst works fine.. but without the destroy you can keep leading the monsters back to that space.
What I did get to work was

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a:setTriggeredByMonster(false)

Which leaves the mine (aka pressure plate) in play but disables it from being triggered by monsters.


PS one other point of consideration is that if a monster is killed by a mine the party get no experience.

crisman wrote: Ah, good advice! Still I don't understand why it works fine for me thought...
Did not notice killing a creature with a mine you don't get exp. That's a real problem, and I don't think I could solve it so easily... oh well, unless considering it the price for being a coward by using such sneaky tricks
Never tried with a charging ogre?? That was the original purpose I had in mind!

Grimwold wrote:There is no such thing as "cloneSpell" function, like there is for objects, but you can re-define a spell

If you take a look in the asset pack (version 2!) there seem to be two parts to the original spells.. first is the spell definition (in spells.lua) which is a very basic.

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defineSpell{ 
	name = "fireburst",
	uiName = "Fireburst",
	skill = "fire_magic",
	level = 2,
	runes = "A",
	manaCost = 15,
	onCast = "fireburst",
}

Then there is an object definition (in objects.lua)

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defineObject{
	name = "fireburst",
	class = "BurstSpell",
	screenEffect = "fireball_screen",
	particleSystem = "fireburst",
	lightColor = vec(0.75, 0.4, 0.25),
	lightBrightness = 40,
	lightRange = 4,
	sound = "fireburst",
	attackPower = 20,
	damageType = "fire",
	--cameraShake = true,
	tags = { "spell" },
}

So it's be possible to modify/clone original spells by re-defining the spell part and then cloning/defining the object part. Some spells, like "Light", do not have an object part in the asset pack... so these are probably hardcoded.

example:

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cloneObject{
name="fireburst",
baseObject="fireburst",
sound = "frostburst",
}

This is a very basic modification to the Fireburst spell to make it sound like Frostburst.

Grimwold wrote:There is no such thing as "cloneSpell" function, like there is for objects, but you can re-define a spell

If you take a look in the asset pack (version 2!) there seem to be two parts to the original spells.. first is the spell definition (in spells.lua) which is a very basic.

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defineSpell{ 
	name = "fireburst",
	uiName = "Fireburst",
	skill = "fire_magic",
	level = 2,
	runes = "A",
	manaCost = 15,
	onCast = "fireburst",
}

Then there is an object definition (in objects.lua)

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defineObject{
	name = "fireburst",
	class = "BurstSpell",
	screenEffect = "fireball_screen",
	particleSystem = "fireburst",
	lightColor = vec(0.75, 0.4, 0.25),
	lightBrightness = 40,
	lightRange = 4,
	sound = "fireburst",
	attackPower = 20,
	damageType = "fire",
	--cameraShake = true,
	tags = { "spell" },
}

So it's be possible to modify/clone original spells by re-defining the spell part and then cloning/defining the object part. Some spells, like "Light", do not have an object part in the asset pack... so these are probably hardcoded.

example:

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cloneObject{
name="fireburst",
baseObject="fireburst",
sound = "frostburst",
}

This is a very basic modification to the Fireburst spell to make it sound like Frostburst.

defineSpell{
		name = "fireball",
		uiName = "Unstoppable Fireball",
		skill = "fire_magic",
		level = 1,
		runes = "E",
		manaCost = 30,
		onCast = "fireball",
	}

cloneObject{
		name = "fireball",
		baseObject = "ice_shards",
		particleEffect = "fireball_greater",
		sound = "fireball",
		uiName = "Unstoppable Fireball",
		attackPower = 30,
		damageType = "fire",
	}