Dungeon Master Forum

as beo said, let's go back to talking about stuff and making stuff !
some of you tried FoD first alpha demo and as i mentionned in the thread about it, there are bugs in v0.44.
my goblins are cloned trollins with only 'attacks party' checked and they kill themselves.
i'll be able to provide an example tomorrow if necessary.

Yeah, I noticed this while playing the demo. It was pretty funny!

a bug? it can be used as a feature! just add a text line with "you`re in a middle of the goblin`s civil war" or something

Please confirm details of all attack method of goblins.
Is action DAMAGE_BYMONSTER?
If it is DAMAGE_BYPARTY, the monster will commit suicide.
Please make attack method clone and change action into DAMAGE_BYMONSTER.

here's the definition :
ADD MONSTER_GOBLIN_FAT CLONES=(MONSTER_TROLIN) NAME=(FAT GOBLIN) BITMAPS=(FRONT:BITMAP_GOBLIN_FAT_FRONT,BACK:BITMAP_GOBLIN_FAT_BACK,SIDE:BITMAP_GOBLIN_FAT_SIDE,ATTACK:BITMAP_GOBLIN_FAT_ATTACK) SOUNDS=(MOVE:SOUND_STEP_ANIMAL,ATTACK:SOUND_ATTACK_SWING) METHODS_CLOSE=(ATTACK_METHOD_STAB,NULL,NULL) STATS=(HEIGHT:2,JIGGLE:30) BODY=(MISSILE_DAGGER_DM2,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,1)

Stub is attack method for party.
You should make stub a clone and change action to DAMAGE_BYMONSTER_HEALTH.

ok, i can see ATTACK_METHOD_MONSTER_1, 2, 3... in the editor, picked number 2 and it works. thanks.

i haven't played with mechanics since Sukumvit's Labyrinth.
while i made only bitmap replacements for several weeks and a lot of things have changed, now i'm rediscovering RTC... by trial and error, without any documentation

this thread can be moved to RTC editing i think.

Done.

Just to summarise - the monsters were attacking themselves because the attack method they'd been given was one that targetted monsters, rather than one that targetted the party!

I've changed the title accordingly.

While I hope maintaining a little backwards compatibility! : )