[CF-Devel] Butakis crash

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Todd Mitchell wrote:
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      Here is what I have discovered about the Butakis prison map causing the
     
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      server crash on metalforge.
     
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      This map (Wist_study) had a lot of arches in monster inventory that had
     
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      been removed form the game - I'm guessing it is likely this was causing
     
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      the crash.
     
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      The code has been changed on Oct 16 to fix the actual crash but the
     
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      missing arches are still missing.
     
     
  There were actually two crashes related to that map - one related to the 
missing archs, and one related to spell books/wands/whatever placed in monsters 
inventory not having a spell placed into them.


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      now fear has had a name change so that is easy to fix but IMHO the
     
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      others should be abilities as well as spells unless I am missing
     
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      something about how these things work.  On a similar topic - do monsters
     
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      have to have the appropriate spell skill in their inventory to cast
     
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      spells which have been dropped into their inventory or can they just
     
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      cast spells automatically?
     
     
  Monsters don't need the appropriate spell skills to use the spell - if they 
have the skill and have the can_cast_spell flag, they can cast spells.

  As for ability vs spells - a lot of the old abilities where just a mechanism 
for the monster to cast the spell, and given that, there was no difference (eg, 
the spell had magic set on the attacktype).  there was dragonbreath and a few 
others that were different.

  In the case you mentioned, I believe that all of those were really just 
spells, so there shouldn't be need to make new abilities for them - the maps 
just need to get updated to have the spell_..... as appropriate.  I'm pretty 
sure that for all the ones that actually were different, I did put in an ability 
for them.  but I might not of.

  In this particular case, it probably doesn't make a difference (since the 
creature is a apparantly a wizard, having magic be on the attacktype would be 
perfectly reasonable).

  Where it usually comes in is for dragons/demons/other supernaturals, who 
somehow create the effect non magically - thus, no magic attacktype.


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