[CF-Devel] change to cone spell code

Sat Jan 3 05:14:31 CST 2004

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      I wanted to put forth an idea to change the cone spell code a little to

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      make it take the arch object weight into play more and the level a bit

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      less.  Here's a diff with a working example of what I mean.  This would

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      be useful because you could then add diffrent weights to the arch object

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      used by a cone based attack to make it more or less 'pushy'.

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      I made small patch to change check_cone_push. This makes new cone based

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      spells more flexable IMHO.

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      Specifically I was adding a wave of water spell and wanted it to really

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      flush things out  Items with no weight are assumed to weigh 1000 grams

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      for backwards compatibility but this could certainly be changed as well.

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      Something I didn't do but may like to discuss doing is changing the code

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      that determines if an object will be pushed as well. 

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      	if(rndm(0, weight_move-1) > tmp->weight/num_sections)

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       It's pretty simplistic as well,perhaps this should be tightened up a

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      bit and more based on the difference between the two weights.

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      Anyway - what say our panel of judges?

I haven't really played with cone spells & their moving items, but your patch 
sounds reasonable.

(now i'm not a judge :))

Nicolas 'Ryo'

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