Locate Object

Dranso · Post by **Dranso** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:00 am

Everytime I try to cast locate object on any item it always says "You Failed" Is there something wrong with Locate object?

Solaghar · Post by **Solaghar** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:25 am

The spell has changed, you no longer need to put apostrophes around your target. So where once you would have done...

c 'locate object' 'dwarven vambraces'

now you would do

c 'locate object' dwarven vambraces

Hviti · Post by **Hviti** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:52 am

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but locate object no longer uses quotation marks. So:
cast locate object "Gwain dentures"
won't work, but
cast locate object Lathander dentures
should work just fine.

Edit: ninja'd

Dranso · Post by **Dranso** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:57 am

you got it backwards lol. thanks tho

Dranso · Post by **Dranso** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:59 am

example cast 'locate object' 'dwarven leggings' works
but cast 'locate object' dwarven leggins doesnt

Kelemvor · Post by **Kelemvor** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:57 am

A player recently queried apostrophes with a travel spell and they also found that quotation marks were required again. Can one of the bug testers look into this

Raona · Post by **Raona** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:38 am

Bhaal said:

Targeting damage spells can still use ' ' around their argument.
But for magic mirror and locate object, putting quotes around the subject of your search does not work. This only affects those two spells, not anything else

Note, however, that he said CAN. So, to summarize by examples:

CAST 'magic missile' 'kobold sorcerer'
and
CAST 'magic missile' kobold sorcerer
should both work.

CAST 'locate object' 'stinky fish'
will NOT work.

CAST 'locate object' stinky fish
WILL find the stinky fish. The reason for this (again, thank you Bhaal), is that now
CAST 'locate object' stinky fish
will locate anything with those two keywords, in any order, thus both 'a stinky fish' and 'a really stinky fish statuette'

What you can do that will always work is leave the quotes off of your final argument. I think. If anyone finds otherwise, please let me know! (In particular, I'd like to try CAST 'change gender' 'elven mage' female with and without quotes, but I haven't the spellcaster for it, on any port.)

Thanks to Amberlie, Cyprianus, and Bhaal for their help sorting this out.

Japcil · Post by **Japcil** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:33 am

Raona wrote:What you can do that will always work is leave the quotes off of your final argument. I think. If anyone finds otherwise, please let me know! (In particular, I'd like to try CAST 'change gender' 'elven mage' female with and without quotes, but I haven't the spellcaster for it, on any port.)

cast 'change sex' 'soldier manticore' female: works
cast 'change sex' soldier manticore female: doesn't
cast 'change sex' soldier female: works

If the second string after the spell name fails a boolean check(t/f) for a gender type the spell doesnt work. The use of second quotes ('soldier manticore') tells the game when the first string ends(the target) and where the second string is to determine if the player is looking to change the target to an eligible gender.

Cret · Post by **Cret** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:33 am

This works too...

c locate pink helm

The above will show all items with both pink and helm

no quotes.. because there is no other 'locate object' spell