Alex Schultz wrote: > Bug report #1542895 on the sf.net tracker > (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1542895&group_id=13833&atid=113833) > notes that: > "All monsters seem to be able to "see" an invisible player: even ogres > see a player wearing a God Finger." > I'm pretty sure that's because that character didn't have stealth, and > hence is intended to allow the ogre to see the character. Despite it > being 'intended behavior', I'm not sure the way stealth is necessarily > the 'right behavior'. How stealth works is something that I find few > players understand, because there are few visual or text cues about it. > Personally I'm thinking stealth should be made much more obvious to the > player. Here are some ideas I had of possible ways to do that: > - Give stealth some use when one isn't invisible/hiding > - Make a visual cue (i.e. animation of detect invisible for a moment) > when an invisible/hiding player without stealth moves > - Make stealth more available > - Document stealth better in-game.
Looking at the code, it seems to do all sorts of odd things. the function in question appears to be can_detect_enemy() in server/monster.c The function itself seems relatively confusing, as it the ncalls things like can_see_enemy(), which in turn calls makes_invisible_to(), to see if the monster can detect the creature (those functions are in themselves not confusing, but then you get can_detect_enemy() that seems to do some of that work again). But gong after all of that, if the player is not hidden, then monsters can detect them if within MIN_MON_RADIUS (which is 3) or the monsters wis/5, whichever is higher. If the character has stealth, that detection radius is reduced. I'm not sure, but I have a feeling here that the real issue is the MIN_MON_RADIUS, which means if you are not stealthy/hidden, if you are within 3 spaces of a monster, they can always detect you. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
