[CF List] Searchable Monster Database questions

[Mark Wedel]

Peter Mardahl wrote:
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      > I am looking into setting up a searchable monster database on the
     
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      > Crossfire website.  Eventually this database would extend to spells,
     
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      > armour, weapons, etc.
     
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      I think it would be very cool.
     
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      I think it's important that it be "automated", so that,
     
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      for example, you can take a new archetypes file,
     
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      interpret it, and automatically get all the parameters.
     
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      This same approach could be used for Classes and Races,
     
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      too.
     
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 the dump switches in crossfire already do most of that.  For example, and
example of crossfire -m2 (one monster selected):
zombie          |    60|  35|  9|(very slow
movement)(infravision)(undead)(Attacks: physical)(Immune: fear)(Protected:
cold)|zombie|generate_zombie

 Now that might not be ideal format, but presumably you could feed that to perl
which then hashes it via dbm or something.

 But I would say that the spoiler might be a good starting place to look, since
it is automatically generated for most all the stuff you were asking about.