course of terror WP

[rock5]

I'm looking to add an option to use a cannon to blow away the seal near the portal if it's a Void Summoning Barrier because sometimes my low level characters die there.

I've got it all working except I can't seem to target the seal after priming the cannon. player:target and UseSkill(1,1) doesn't work. Only a mouse click will work.

Any suggestions? Lisa didn't you have similar issues with house planting? Do you have any suggestions?

[lisa]

with the house planting I had to move the camera view in the right direction and then did a scan with the mouse to find the object. This requires the game being focus, so can't be done in background mode.

I have had low geared chars dieing too, I was planning on just playing with the coords to get a good spot, I figure if can teleport into the blue section instead of above the seal and then just do a small movement into blue portal to make sure it goes through.

[rock5]

I thought I'd found good coords and most of the time it doesn't trigger the seal but occationally it still does. That's why I thought I'd try this. But I think you are right, we still need to play with the numbers a bit more. I think the problem is when it moves all the way to the floor. I think if we could stop it from going all the way to the bottom it might not trigger the seal. I never tried teleporting there. I just assumed you had to move into the portal.

That's given me a few things to think about. I'll play with it a bit more tomorrow.

[rock5]

I think I got it working good now. Teleporting into the portal and moving a bit, works. It actually teleports really fast so it shaves a few seconds off the total time. I also merged all the first room waypoints so if you restart in there it can make a descision what to do. I also added a check for the timer frame instead of a 25 second time. Some strange things happen if you restart the script after talking to Malatina but before the timer appears but it still works fine.

Before I post, there is something I wanted to ask. There has always been 2 things that bothered me about the script.

The first is the player:sleep() at the end. It doesn't really serve any purpose. If you change character the script crashes so you can't continue it with the next character anyway. It annoys me because quite often I forget to close it when I go to do something with the character and as soon as I go to fight something it wakes up and starts running off and I have to scramble to stop the script. I'd like to just stop the script.

The second is leaving the instance. You would only need to leave if you are going to do something such as buy crimson stats or post something but most of the time it will leave and you will load the next character. You don't have to leave to load the next character and it would save memory. So I'd rather it didn't leave. If someone wants to run a script to buy stats or mail items they could start it in cot.

What do you think?

[lisa]

Yeah I changed the one I use a long time ago, it doesn't leave the cot instance. It logs next character when it's finished looting chests. I also made a log which logs number of shells before it starts to open the chests and also an ondeath in profile that logs shells.

I also changed mine file to not try and fight back.

suppose I can just upload them so you can see for yourself what I use.

Only time I have crashes is as it first enters the room with seals. Not sure if it is because there are so many objects and it just get overloaded from the details, I added a yrest to hopefully help but I don't think it has any affect.

[kanta]

Ummm... I made a model patch for CoT. It removes all the tiles (well, drops them below the floor) except the summoning gates and keys. Would it help you guys if I posted it?

[lisa]

i think the objects would still all be there its just that you wouldnt see the actual seals, so can't see it making that big a difference. Nice idea though =)

[rock5]

I also made a log which logs number of shells before it starts to open the chests

The curremt version does it after opening the chects. Does it make a difference?

and also an ondeath in profile that logs shells.

Well hopefully if we do away with deaths then that wont be necessary.

I also changed mine file to not try and fight back.

I've never had it fight back anyway. It never triggers bad seals when collecting keys and when it triggers a summoning seal as it goes through the portal, it's in the middle of some code so doesn't fight back.

Only time I have crashes is as it first enters the room with seals. Not sure if it is because there are so many objects and it just get overloaded from the details, I added a yrest to hopefully help but I don't think it has any affect.

I thought it was from flying into the room which is why I have it walk in. I certainly haven't had any crashes while entering the room since I changed it. Ah!. I see you commented out the "flyoff()" so you are flying into the room. That's why it's crashing.

Looking at your file, maybe we could add a user option to relog. If it's enabled it relogs else it just ends the file.

Is see the player level check. I was thinking we could do something like this

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if 50 > player.Class1 and (player.Class2 >= 50 or player.Class3 >= 50) then
    -- Wait for user to change class
    player.sleep()
end

That way you wont accidentally do cot with the wrong class but can still run it with lower level characters.

[lisa]

Ah!. I see you commented out the "flyoff()" so you are flying into the room. That's why it's crashing.

Actually I've only ever crashed while entering that room in phase 1 regardless of if flying or not. With that current WP I get 1 crash out of 30 odd runs.

[rock5]

Maybe we could have it walk in only the first time? But it doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure it runs about as fast as it flies.

Some more changes I'm doing:
- I'm going to check the zone and talk to the out side Malatina like I do in my egg script. That works really well so should work well here too.
- Added the "Load_Next_Character" user option
- I noticed that my characters with 4 or less character names were not lined up in the log file with the other characters so I added a bit of formating. Now, all names up to 12 characters will be lined up.

I'm thinking of adding a class level check to the logging code. There's no need to log zeros for low level characters.

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if player.Class1 >= 50 or player.Class2 >= 50 or player.Class3 >= 50 then
   -- log data
end

What do you think of that?

Edit: I meant player.Level of course.

[lisa]

Sounds good

[rock5]

How about this for an idea. Instead of just a relog option have

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What_To_Do_When_Finished = "end" -- "end" to end script, "relog" to log next character and "waypointfilename" to load that waypointfile.

That way users could create their own merchant and mailing waypoint file.

For example you could create a waypoint file that checks the number of Phirius Shells. If it's less than 200 then it relogs and reloads cot_tele. Otherwise it exits cot and goes to the merchant to buy, then relogs and reloads cot_tele. People could even share their creations if they like.

[kanta]

i think the objects would still all be there its just that you wouldnt see the actual seals, so can't see it making that big a difference. Nice idea though =)

Actually, it drops all but the summoning gates and key tiles below the floor and you can walk around just fine. No need to mess around with the other tile types. I've been using it for a couple weeks now with no problem.

[lisa]

So you can actually physically walk where the seals would normally be?
I didn't think that would be possible.

[rock5]

Actually, it drops all but the summoning gates and key tiles below the floor and you can walk around just fine. No need to mess around with the other tile types. I've been using it for a couple weeks now with no problem.

How do you deal with summoning seals that are in your way? Wouldn't you need the cannons?

[kanta]

Yes, it's definitely possible. The gates that summon the mobs. I only left the pink tiles because some characters can't just run around with the mobs hitting them while gathering the keys. I'm attaching the file so you can check it out. Works the same as nospelleffects. Just put the files in the model folder. Also putting my edit of the portals from Ancient Treasures in there. You don't need to worry about the blue portals with it.

[botje]

errr... this is proberly a stupid question... but i dont see a models folder to put this

Botje

[rock5]

Just as anything to replace files in the "interface.fdb" goes into the "Runes of Magic/interface" folder, so does anything to replace files in the "model.fdb" goes into the "Runes of Magic/model" folder.

So try just extracting the "model" folder in the archive into the "Runes of Magic" folder.

[botje]

aaah ok, thanx mate

Botje

[lisa]

How about this for an idea. Instead of just a relog option have

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What_To_Do_When_Finished = "end" -- "end" to end script, "relog" to log next character and "waypointfilename" to load that waypointfile.

That way users could create their own merchant and mailing waypoint file.

Sounds like a good idea to me =)
You know how much I love options lol