NWNX_System override

[Ilerien]

It's my first attempt to supplement NWNX plugin. The extension is currently very simple, but somebody might find it useful. Also, I'm going to extend system plugin further.

I'm bored with players complaining about unfair randomizer. It's known that NWN use pseudorandom number generator (possibly like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator) with seed depending on area parameters, so it's quite "nonrandom" My function (TrueRandom()) takes random numbers directly from entropy pool (/dev/urandom). I've tested repeatedly its results and found that expectation & variance (and several other probability distribution characteristics) were noticeably closer to those of uniform distribution than expectation & variance of default randomizer.

Link: http://nwn.virusman.ru/svn/nwnx2-linux/branches/ilerien-system-override/
Download link (ZIP): http://nwn.virusman.ru/trac/nwnx2-linux/changeset/294/branches/ilerien-system-override?old_path=%2F&format=zip

A thousand thanks to virusman for consultation
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Simple NWNX_System extension
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[Paul R]

Looks good, I know there have been various implementations of random number functions, even using MySQL.

Just curious why you did it as a branch rather than as a patch to the trunk? Reason I'm asking is that there have been some useful additions such as this and the per player visual effects and timer bar but have been done as separate bits of code rather than extend the main branch.

Which kind of makes it difficult to implement without rewriting that extension again if they happened to be the same one.
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[virusman]

Properly made branches can be compiled as a replacement for the original plugin.
They can also be easily merged into the trunk.
axs published his work as a separate plugin outside of the repository; this is not the case with this extension.
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[kucik]

Nice job.

Have you any idea how to replace built-in engine throws like attack rolls? Is to possible to locate this finctions in binary and replace them?
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[Ilerien]

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