Manhack deactivation

[jaked122]

I’m currently working on a Pokemon mod for cataclysm(because we definitely need it), and I am having a difficult time finding what enables friendly manhacks to be deactivated and picked up.

Can someone tell me which source files those functions are in?

[Coolthulhu]

game.cpp, disable_robot

[jaked122]

Thanks, that is helpful.

Wow, game.cpp is so long…

I’ve managed that, in the same manner as the turrets.

Okay, how do I instantiate an item from the id and place it somewhere?
edit: Figured it out, was also in that function.

[Coolthulhu]

Note that it’s currently not really possible to store an entire monster type inside an item. It wouldn’t be particularly hard to make it possible, though.

Just adding an unique_ptr in the item type and handling it on save/load in a similar way item contents are handled would probably be enough.

[jaked122]

I kindof liked the manhack method, as it’s really funny when you throw out a pichu and the game says "The pichu scans you and emits an IFF beep"
Though, I suspect that this is a stupid stopgap that ruins the whole point of having pokemon in it.
I’ll look into actually changing the item so that this can happen without being stupid.

edit: It appears that there isn’t a forward definition of monster in the item class, so it can’t have the unique_ptr type for that.
Adding that in, it seems to cause everything, and I do mean everything to break, mostly the things that need the default constructor for the Item class, the copy constructor, the destructor, etc… I don’t want to rewrite any of that, so I need a bit more help with that. I think I might be able to just use a monster pointer normally, as it is checked considerably less…

Anyway, thanks for helping me around the code.

Edit again:

I’m having trouble figuring out how to serialize the monster internally. I’ve settled on storing the id, and its experience for now.