Ghosties

[runtest]

What controls.

- Who and what can see players when they are dead.
- How to apply that to an NPC.

I am wanting to create ghost that can only be seen if you are dead or have spirit speak and that will attack players and drain their mana. I was going to rip the idea off the file that control player dead and just modify the hit script. What control the above mentioned to players?

[CWO]

Not easily done if it can be done. Who/what can see players when dead? 'Seeghosts' privilege. Really, this is only useful on player chars like staff members.

NPCs can see ghosts with SYSEVENT_ENTEREDAREA or SYSEVENT_GHOST_SPEECH and ListGhostsNearLocation() or ListMobilesNearLocationEx() with the LISTEX_GHOSTS flag.

[runtest]

Really I just want to hide the creature to anyone who has a low level of spirit speak, is alive or is staff and have it hidden to anyone else.

[CWO]

The only way I can see doing this is actually screwing with cmdlevels. Conceal the mobile to 1 and then anyone with high enough spirit speak can be upped to cmdlevel = 1. Of course, you'd have to bump staff cmdlevels up 1 and search through all checks of cmdlevel in your scripts. Although I don't think you'd be able to hide it to someone that is dead without packethooks but this may cause some undesirable effects.

[runtest]

I love that idea. Heres what I will do. CWO you amaze me.

1. All players 0 unless 90% ss or dead then they are bumped to one. It will be a check, if they are under 90% and they are alive they will be 0. If they are dead or have 90% spirit speak they will be set to cmdlevel := 1. That is actually a nice way of doing this. Is there a good place to put this so it does not generate an enormous amount of lag?

[CWO]

I would put it on death, login, and resurrection. It shouldn't lag really since its only a few instructions...

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if (!who.cmdlevel)
     if (GetAttribute(who, "spiritspeak") >= 90)
          who.cmdlevel := 1;
     endif
endif

Watch your counselor cmdlevel though as I said before. You'll probably want to bump it up one by defining a new cmdlevel in cmds.cfg and make sure you change all scripts that reference cmdlevel. And also since you defined a new cmdlevel, you can even make textcmds and such available only to those of that level.

[runtest]

So it does the spirit speak check after they die, logout, logon. That shouldn't be to bad. I might have it do a check on spirit speak use to. Just for the over 90, so when they go over it takes care of it. Thanks allot. Thats allot easier than the way I was going about it.

[runtest]

Where is the Res function stored? When I get this done would you like me to post it in the Custom Scripts topic? Is Resurrect() a core function and ResNow() the actual check?

This is what I am doing at those checks. Its a bit redundant but it should work.

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	//start spirit check
	var ss := GetObjProperty(who, "spiritspeak");
	if(who.cmdlevel == 0)
		if(ss >= 90)
			who.cmdlevel := 1;
		endif
	endif

	if(who.cmdlevel == 1)
		if(ss <=89.9)
			who.cmdlevel := 0;
		endif
	endif

I prefer to If statements, it helps me keep it in some sort of order.

[CWO]

Resurrect(who, flags := 0) is a core function. Look for instances of Resurrect in your scripts. Also, to clean up your code a little...

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if (GetAttribute(who, "spiritspeak") >= 90)
     who.cmdlevel := 1;
else
     who.cmdlevel := 0;
endif

Remember to GetAttribute not GetObjProperty... a skill level isn't a custom prop.

[runtest]

Like I said, I like my separate ifs. So , by the way, thanks for the help. Good one with that command level change.