Objects casting personal only spells on players.

[Duranamir]

I may be being stupid here, but how does an object cast a non targetted personal spell on its wielder. ?

For example Bulls strength is currently personal only, how would an item cast it on someone when an appropriate prog is triggered ?

Duranamir

[Moloch]

I don't believe that bull's strength is a personal affecting spell..

[Duranamir]

Ok, as pointed out bad example.... example is now Shield

Duranamir

[Japcil]

Code: Select all

if objisworn($o)
cast shield $n
endif

Now just decide if you want an intercept prog on a command like protect or perhaps you want it in a time prog to go off at a certain time of day.

[Duranamir]

I have now got the code working with shield, however i have encoutered what i think is a bug when using 'Arcane eye' in the same way. The intention is to have a crystal ball type object, however when the object trys to cast 'arcane eye' it appears to crash the test port, at least for a little bit.

Any ideas ?

Duranamir

[Moloch]

It may be impossible to have an item cast that spell, but perhaps you could have it grant a skill in the spell temporarily, while the ball is held? I'm certain one of the builders will come up with something, though.

[Kelemvor]

Spells which require a location target other than $n or which employ code that creates an effect other than modifying stats don't work well on objects.

Generally, you would code an object to apply an effect rather than cast a spell - or have it only cast a spell which is personal or non-target based.

[Dalvyn]

I doubt you could make an object that can cast "arcane eye", since it's actually a very special spell that creates a mob and lets the PC "go into" that mob.

For most spells with personnal range, the supermob (the special mobs that runs all object programs) can cast them on other people. That's why you can have an object "(mp)cast shield $n" for example. But I'd guess it doesn't work for arcane eye.

That being said, I'm not sure that arcane eye is a spell we want to put on an object. I'd rather keep it as a perk for wizards who know it.

[Duranamir]

Changed the spell, no longer using "arcane eye" as it was getting to complicated to try anf work out how to use it.

For future reference is granting the spell to a character (Moloch's suggestion) even possible ?

Duranamir

[Dalvyn]

I don't think it is.

We used to be able to do so, but this was made impossible through a hard-code change because people would get an item that would give them an out-of-guild skill then proceed to train it up and thus keep it (the skill) when they get rid of the object.