[crossfire] Extensions to building

[Alex Schultz]

Alex Schultz wrote:

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      I've defiantly been planning on using scrolls/books for the magic ears 
     
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      and mouths, because one can already make talking books and write 
     
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      multi-line messages in them etc, Which makes them ideal for magic ears 
     
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      and mouths. I'm also thinking now of making the magic ears/mouths that 
     
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      are buildable have the name "talking book" or "talking scroll" 
     
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      depending on what was used to store the information, and also take the 
     
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      same picture used by the book/scroll, that way it's something tangible 
     
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      so it's easy to use the generic destroyer on to get rid of it and at 
     
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      the same time makes some sense to the player. I'm also thinking that 
     
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      it should have the same building material for the ear and the mouth, 
     
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      and just choose which depending on if the book/scroll used has an 
     
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      "@match" in it.
     
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      For the teleporter I'm thinking that using a book/scroll approach 
     
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      isn't so good of an idea, because it's difficult for a player to 
     
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      figure out the coordinates. I'm thinking instead, that the player 
     
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      renames any old item to "TELEPORT TARGET" or something like that, and 
     
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      places it anywhere in the same map, and the teleporter searches for 
     
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      that when it's made (the teleport target doesn't disappear, and can 
     
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      just be picked up again after use).
     
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      For all of those I plan to keep with the same marking rune system for 
     
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      the connected values, and I have been planning to  have them visible 
     
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      anyways so players can easily destroy them if needed.
     
     
Just committed the support for buildable magic ears/mouths to CVS, which 
as a side affect also allows buildable signs. I've tested it and it 
seems to work perfectly and doesn't break any old behavior at all. I 
haven't committed any materials for it yet, but if anybody wants to test 
it, just use a dm command such as "create 1 building_vertical_gate 
slaying magic_ear" (replace magic_ear with magic_mouth, or sign, or 
something like that if you want to try non-ear things). As soon as this 
is better tested I will add some materials for it to CVS, or if anybody 
else wants to they're perfectly welcome.

    Thanks,
        Alex Schultz