[CF List] strange comportments with large creature summoning

[Mark Wedel]

     huet.o at free.fr
     
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      Hello everybody,
     
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      I try to play with a player worshiping Ruggili, and I when I tried "call holly
     
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      servant", or sometimes "summon cult monster", a wyvern appear.
     
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      With that "large" creature, I had a lot of display refresh problems (gtk client)
     
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      : it's quite like the wyvern don't "visualy" move, but it apear like it really
     
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      move on the server. (but changes on the pixmap seems to work well : wyvern
     
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      sometimes look on the right, and sometimes on the left).
     
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      And another problem (but it's perhaps a normal behavior) : with "one square
     
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      summoned creature", it's possible to go "throught" : you can walk even if a pet
     
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      is on your way : it automaticaly go behind you. With Wyvern, it don't work : it
     
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      can sometimes block the way.
     
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      My versions : 
     
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      gtk client : 1.3.0
     
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      server : 1.3.0 with only one cvs update : the patch of the diseases I post few
     
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      week ago.
     
     
  Haven't looked into it, but my guess is that the pet monster code isn't multi 
space monster capabable.  So when you try to move into the tail, it sees you 
can't do so, but doesn't look at the head of the monster to see that it is friendly.

  Similarly, I bet some of the pet move code is only moving the head piece, 
which leaves the tail behind or in odd states.

  Easiest fix would just to change ruggili's summoning list to not include 
wyvern - I know that in the past, avatars and others have been shrunken to one 
space because they are just much more useful (in this case, for example, a wide 
space wide corrider that runs north/south results in the wyvern being useless, 
since it can't fit in it).