nwnx_funcs for windows

[Baaleos]

Attack time is dependant on variables such as attacks per round etc per each character.

It would probably require alot of modifications, but alternatively, nwnx_funcs 'may' be able to affect the probability of hitting a target.

It would involve an event hook, on a nwn internal function that is called something like evaluatehit or something like that.

I know that hooking onto Devastating Hits has been done, and players can now change how these are handled by their own scripts.

Attacks in general, the best you could probably hope for is making your weapons do 0 damage, and have them do a unique power on hit, and then script in the dependancies that are required to inflict damage.


Attack Rate/Time is one of those things which is tied heavilly into the nwn internal 'circuitry' I believe, it would involve alot more modifications, than simple hooking can provide.

Would require some re-writes of the code inside nwn, which is in theory possible, via code caving etc. Many of the nwnx plugins use a code cave approach already.

[Zunath]

[Baaleos]

CNWSCombatRound::InitializeAttackActions(unsigned long)
CNWSCombatRound::InitializeNumberOfAttacks(void)
CNWSCombatRound::ClearAllAttacks(void)


There are several other methods inside the CNWSCombatRound class which might be useful, they include the addition and removal of attacks from attack rounds.

Using them though, is another problem.

I am still noob at plugin creation, so wouldnt know where best to hook, and I especially dont know how to call internal methods without crashing the server yet.

Would be best if you asked someone else about these methods, they would likely do what you want to do, to a point, im just unsure how to hook them, without causing lag or crashes.

[MaxRock]

I've created a sourceforge project for nwnx_funcs; mostly to have a version control system (the vault's fine, but it's kind of a pain to package and upload stuff)

Repository URL
https://mrnwnxstuff.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mrnwnxstuff/Trunk

Trac
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mrnwnxstuff/

Project page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrnwnxstuff/

Just like Baaleos, I went "hook crazy" once I figured out how to do it, so there's a little more than just nwnx_funcs (but it's mainly for that).

nwnx_areas: It is a port of, and has the same functionality as virusman's linux version and is stable as far as I can tell.

nwnx_combat: Some combat related stuff I'm playing around with.

nwnx_trinity: Mostly stuff used by our nwn server. (the level cap remover doesn't quite work yet

All the projects are are part of the nwn_funcs solution. (Yea, yea, I know, I had no clue what I was doing.)
I'm also not too familiar with sourceforge or subversion, so bear with me when I screw things up.

[Baaleos]

Lol - Your AMAZING...
I dont care about the gender barrier.... I wana have your babies..

I turned NWNX_Areas when it first came out, into a method of players acquiring their own player housing, eg - It self reproduces the area, and changes some of the contents of the area, to make it personalized for the player.

The one thing I never had access to, was setting the areas name though.
Now we can have 'Baaleos' Abode....' Lol

The Trinity plugin, if it ever works, will be SOUGHT after by all.
The Combat one, if that is capable of creating our own combat engine, then it would be a great addition.

Eg - Overriding attacks, to say whether or not they hit or not hit, and control the damage.

For a server, such as mine, which is about vampires, who are meant to be agile, the ability to 'override' hit chances and make the vampires able to dodge on command, would be great.

[MaxRock]

[Baaleos]

I think another difference between yours and his, is that your windows one, has the AddAreaToCreatures method call.


Im not sure if it was left out of virusmans win32 release, but I know that the result was that if you joined the game before the area was created, then when you entered the area, it would be all perpetual darkness.

Not sure if it is different in yours, but heres hoping. Lol

[Zunath]

I ran through a little of your NWNX_Combat source. The first thing that stuck out for me was your comments. Thank you so much for adding them

Gonna see if I can learn a little more about how NWNX and the hooks work so I can start contributing to development as well. Keep up the great work!

[MaxRock]

[virusman]

There is a repository for NWNX-Win32 already, why don't you use it?
http://nwn.virusman.ru/trac/nwnx2-win32/
Btw, there is a way to get rid of asm inlines:
http://nwn.virusman.ru/trac/nwnx4/browser/trunk/src/plugins/ruby/hook.cpp#L40
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[Skywing]

I'd recommend just defining a macro to make the class call so you aren't tied to using the __fastcall hack later if you want to, say, change to defining the class directly and completely filling out the vtable. Similar to the old COBJMACROS that you'll find for COM interfaces.

[MaxRock]

[Sethan]

*NWNXFuncs_SetAge* - Awesome.

One thing I haven't been able to find, is a method of setting racial type without using EffectPolymorph.

For PCs, you don't want to set their racial type outside the playable races - but we use a token system, whereby you can drop tokens on things to change their characteristics. Some of those are undead tokens (ghoul, skeleton, zombie), and when used on NPCs they give the NPCs the appropriate resistances and such. Most scripts can be changed to deal with that appropriately. The one thing we can't do is change the racial type so that weapons with 'vs. Undead' properties work correctly. This also means that the Bless Weapon spell doesn't work, since it adds a temporary weapon property vs. undead.

[Baaleos]

[Sethan]

Aha - missed that. Excellent.