[CF-Devel] Combat animations/sound

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Speaking about map protocol redo:

Here are some map related suggestions that i plan to implement one day or another, as part of a complete protocol refresh/clean up

 - additionnal layers (bottom of everything, bottom, middle, top, on top of everything). Not yet fixed, see point below.
 - More than one visible item available in a layer (they just stack at that layer)
 - Map is made of 2 concurrent part:
   * The mostly fixed one (ground, buildings, non pickable/non killable items)
   * The non fixed one (mainly monsters and pickables). 

The mostly fixed part of map would be send to client only one time. This would includes additionnal info like blocked squares (so client can precalculate moves, and make things look softer). Changes to this part of map (which may happen from time to time) will trigger a patch event from server to client so map are against in sync. I am thinking about using a big picture for the map background/buildings/Walls(so mapmakers could design a map made of something else than squares)

The dynamic part will be send in a way similar to actual one (but in a reworked protocol to have clean code)

No need to say map animations would be handled only by client.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wedel <
     
     mwedel at sonic.net
     
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Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:39:59 -0800
Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] Combat animations/sound

Todd Mitchell wrote:

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      As for death animations - perhaps some sort of red flash or other death
     
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      notification would actually be pretty good if it was subtle.  I've
     
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      wanted some sort of aura system for a while now so you could easily see
     
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      poision and magic states like cursed and blessed or whatever.  I think
     
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      there was discussusion of this in relation to the smoothing code in the
     
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      client? A death 'aura' could use this sort of system too.
     
     
  Well, the entire map sending approach probably needs to be re-written.  It is 
really a mess, and the extended map data just adds to that mess.  But that is 
really a different topic.


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     Instead of 100 orcs, have 25 orcs 4 times as strong with 4 times the xp and 
     
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     such.
     
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      That would be great for a game not based on Gauntlet, but the CF combat
     
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      system is based in the mob approach to combat and IMHO many of the
     
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      better maps are more like tetris than diablo if you get my meaning. 
     
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      Quality is derived from the experience of the entire game, not any
     
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      specific implementation - 100 orcs is better than 25 if the map (or the
     
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      combat system) was designed for 100 orcs.
     
     
  Well, I think a fewer but tougher/longer approach is better.

  Now certainly, it can shift balance - spell casters, which have spells that 
hit a large area, but don't do a lot of damage per space, obviously prefer mobs 
of monsters that they can kill with such spells.  If those 25 orcs was replaced 
with 1 orc, they'd be out of luck.

  However, if 100 orcs was replaced with 25 orcs, that would still balance out.

  But the issue is more going through and fixing all those maps.  The mob of 
monsters is actually a no-no in the mapguide list.  But going back and fixing 
all the maps current out there is no simple matter.


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