[Re: [CF-Devel] Future of Crossfire]

[Peter Mardahl]

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      ** I had all this included in the dx client! **
     
     
Unfortunately, MT, the crossfire developers are very heavy
on the Linux side of things.

I, for example, never boot into windows so I cannot
appreciate your work.

I was glad to help you with the spell descriptions
though.

PeterM


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      GOD DAMN i had drawed all this fucked 200 spell icons,
     
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      a ONE BIG menu which list all spells and all pathes,
     
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      which gives a short description of what the spell do
     
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      (thx for peterm here too).
     
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      You see wizard spell left, priest spells right.
     
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      - You can BROWSE this menu.
     
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      - You can GRAP icons from it. You can put the spells
     
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        in a short cut panel (where you can see the icons and select them).
     
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      - All spells have a ! 2 key combo" which can invoke or cast it!
     
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        means -
     
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                 "open invoke menu key" + "2" + "b" = "invoke small lightning"
     
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                 "open invoke menu key" + "2" + "B" = "invoke forked lightning"
     
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                 "open cast menu key" + "2" + "b" = "cast forked lightning"
     
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      and so on...
     
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      I had asked in the list in the past to submit the descripton/icons/positions
     
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      of the spell in this kind of menu from server like you got faces.
     
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      Then you will see only the spells you REALLY know ...
     
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      And when spells changes with server versions, the server can update the
     
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      clients.
     
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      Well...
     
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      very very sad
     
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      Michael
     
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      >  Also, currently the spells the player knows about are not communicated
     
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      > effectively to the client (the client can invisibly send a cast command
     
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      > to the server and then parse the returning drawinfo data).  But
     
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      > some better
     
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      > form such that the client could know the spell lists and some information
     
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      > about them would probably be desirable - it could then generate the menus
     
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      > based on this info.
     
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      > Useful info IMO: spell paths player has repelled, attuned, denied
     
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      > spell info: spell name, type (fire, cold, cure, etc), sp, type
     
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      > (priest/mage),
     
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      > and spellpath (if different from described type), perhaps image
     
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      > Client could then draw nice little icons, put little markers
     
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      > depending on how
     
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      > the players spellpath matches with the spell (so you can more
     
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      > easily see if
     
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      > you are casting an attuned spell for example).
     
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      >  With something like 170 spells out there, the lists would need
     
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      > to get broken
     
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      > down into types at some form.
     
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      >  Ideally, of course, the spell popup menus would let you set bindings
     
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      > for the spells right there.
     
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      >  IMO, doing all the above would be a nice addition of a feature.
     
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      > Its just a
     
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      > bit of work to do (I don't think any of it is actually really
     
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      > hard to do).  At
     
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      > least on the unix side, this would be a gtk client issue only.
     
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