Magical Items and Arcana Skill [No longer merged, hosted on Github]

Noctifer · 2015-09-25T20:04:32.000Z

Somebody made a mini hakerro Gatling gun! GIMME!!!

Noctifer · 2015-09-25T20:06:34.000Z

The mini hakerro is just the thing attached to the front. The book you said dragon could be about a mage who traveled the land(s) to study magic to create their own grimoire.

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T20:10:53.000Z

Might be interesting. And yeah, artifact properties haven’t been JSONized yet, far as I know.

Xfin:

(on that note can you use the ‘artifact_tool/artifact_armor’ types in mods…)

Eek. Gimme gimme gimme. Tell meee. Do the properties actually work? o.o

Xfin · 2015-09-25T20:12:14.000Z

[quote=“Random_dragon, post:43, topic:10288”]Might be interesting. And yeah, artifact properties haven’t been JSONized yet, far as I know.

Xfin:

(on that note can you use the ‘artifact_tool/artifact_armor’ types in mods…)

Eek. Gimme gimme gimme. Tell meee. Do the properties actually work? o.o[/quote]

I was asking if you ever tried it. i guess not…

guess it doesn’t work either…shame

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T20:15:39.000Z

Oh. Derp. I misread that as “you can use” instead of a question. I’ve tried the artifact_tool item type and it pukes up a load error. The artifact use_action is usable, but it pukes up a “oi you dunce, this ain’t an artifact” error message when a non-artifact is used with that action. There is also an “is_artifact” effect it checks for, but I’m assuming it is bound to the artifact item types. If I recall, I tried dropping that in as an item flag and it had no effect.

Xfin · 2015-09-25T20:26:18.000Z

Random_dragon:

Oh. Derp. I misread that as “you can use” instead of a question. I’ve tried the artifact_tool item type and it pukes up a load error. The artifact use_action is usable, but it pukes up a “oi you dunce, this ain’t an artifact” error message when a non-artifact is used with that action. There is also an “is_artifact” effect it checks for, but I’m assuming it is bound to the artifact item types. If I recall, I tried dropping that in as an item flag and it had no effect.

So many flashy ‘magic like’ effect in the game but locked away form mods…

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T20:31:49.000Z

Yus. Had opened a suggestion issue on it quite some time ago, but it never got any feedback on it. Info on what would be needed to make it work, how feasible it is, etc.

Noctifer · 2015-09-25T20:33:16.000Z

The issue is to ask somewhere else and draw attention to it to get people to discuss it in a dedicated thread.

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T20:35:59.000Z

I think I have brought the issue up elsewhere, yeah. Might start a thread on the Drawing Board too, I guess…

Xfin · 2015-09-25T20:38:19.000Z

If i wasn’t running on toaster…

I guess the simplistic would be just to make the mod json reader accept premade artifact_tools but simple is not always the best option…

Noctifer · 2015-09-25T20:40:28.000Z

If it can be achieve messing around with the compiled files I might be able to help, with the source code…not risking it…I don’t even know who github or codeblocks work.

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T20:42:28.000Z

Yeah. You can cheat by dumping your own edited artifact definitions into the save’s artifact file, but adding some in a json file or such in the mod doesn’t work. ;w;

Noctifer:

If it can be achieve messing around with the compiled files I might be able to help, with the source code…not risking it…I don’t even know who github or codeblocks work.

If only, yeah. The source code tends to catch on fire when I go poking it, but I’ve stumbled through a few changes to it at least.

Noctifer · 2015-09-25T20:57:20.000Z

Can it be jsoned?

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T20:58:29.000Z

Most likely, just unsure how to go about doing so.

Noctifer · 2015-09-25T21:07:48.000Z

Hmmm, maybe copying and pasting some things from the source code? You know, making those qualities into a json readable and then make the place where the code was copied from refer to said json file.

Xfin · 2015-09-25T21:12:39.000Z

It already reads artifact data by json somewhere… it shouldn’t be that hard to mimic that action when reading mods…at least logically (i yet to find where either are handled right now to know for sure…)

Random_dragon · 2015-09-25T21:13:58.000Z

Might be something I’ll have to look into. For now though…hmm. Ideas are ensuing. Will have to muck about with more ideas before I add additional recipe books, but…

Random_dragon · 2015-09-29T16:18:27.000Z

Well, now that the toxic gas explosion flag has been merged ( https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/13658 ), I can add that item I was working on, and other things. Progress is slowed by IRL issues to deal with though.

Small sneak peek:

},{
    "id": "scourge_staff",
    "type": "GUN",
    "symbol": "/",
    "color": "yellow",
    "name": "bane staff",
    "name_plural": "bane staves",
    "description": "A wooden staff decorated with gold, capped with a dark blue gem.  The wood gives off a faintly acrid smell.  Firing it will produce pools of acid and toxic fumes.",
    "price": 45600,
    "material": ["wood", "gold"],
    "skill": "magic",
    "ammo": "essence_type",
    "techniques" : ["WBLOCK_1", "RAPID"],
    "flags" : ["DURABLE_MELEE"],
    "weight": 2800,
    "volume": 12,
    "bashing": 19,
    "cutting": 0,
    "to_hit": 3,
    "ranged_damage": 20,
    "pierce": 10,
    "range": 20,
    "dispersion": 40,
    "sight_dispersion": 90,
    "aim_speed" : 4,
    "recoil": 0,
    "durability": 10,
    "clip_size": 4,
    "reload": 400,
    "loudness" : 75,
    "ammo_effects": ["ACIDBOMB", "TOXICGAS"]
  }

EDIT: And another thing, plus a good reason for me to maybe give the “root wall” terrain a proper sprite.

Screenshot:

Xfin · 2015-10-01T15:55:00.000Z

funfact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CQSEyv0aD38#t=28 they can float…

malboros be the only monster that has managed to gameover me on the ff games… outside of cockatrices in ff1

Random_dragon · 2015-10-01T16:19:18.000Z

What, no love for those godawful sorcerers in FF1? X3

And for added !!FUN!! Rivet mentioned the possibility of mainlining them. If that occurs I might need to add a beefed-up Great Malboro as the boss instead. X3