Thinking a little little about transportation objects (boats, horses, etc) and came to the realization that at some level, a move_allow field is needed.
The basic idea is that move_allow would override any move_block. The case I'm thinking about here is boats - players normally can't move on the water. While the move_block of the water spaces for boats in harbor could be changed so you could get on the boat, this doesn't work so well if you anchor your boat at some island. The code to handle this would actually be fairly trivial - basically, in the update position, move_block &= ~move_allow This also allows for some other interesting things. For example, one could imagine creating a 'bridge' spell that goes over water - basically, it just acts like a wall spell, but has move_allow WALK on it. Passwall (letting you put holes in walls) would be another case. One question would be on how to handle slow_move attributes - should those get blanked out also. I'm sort of thinking yes - then you could also have a 'create road' spell to get through the jungle quickly. Thoughts? Questions? _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
