[crossfire] Circular lighting & negetive glow_radiuses

[Mitch Obrian]

// == C99 right?
(C99 is not supported by debian stable etc... please
don't use C99 :) )

--- Mark Wedel <
     
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        Some notes about the patch:
     
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      General: Never use // comment style.
     
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      common/living.c: Making the glow radius additive is
     
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      probably a bad thing.  A 
     
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      player shouldn't be able to light a few torches and
     
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      get an effect to see 
     
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      everything about them (plus in real life, given the
     
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      (pi)r³ of real lighting, 
     
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      doesn't much up very well.).  Same note applies for
     
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      map.c and server/spell_attack.c
     
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      common/object.c: op->glow_radius !=0 would be
     
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      clearer checks that >0 and <0
     
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      server/monster.c: while seeing how well lighted the
     
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      creatuer is may make sense, 
     
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      until we do something with that, I'd much rather
     
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      just return once we know if the 
     
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      creatuer is illuminated or not for performance
     
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      reason - checking for all the 
     
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      spaces for all the monsters could prove to be a
     
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      pretty big cpu hog.
     
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