New Admin, various questions

Alright, I've always wanted my own game so I'm finally going for it. I already know exactly what I want it to do, but the tricky bit is making that happen, right? I've played a lot of games and I've been a builder on several. I've got some coding experience too, similar but not specifically what's used here.

I've been messing around with SMAUG 1.9 for a couple days and have made a few minor changes that so far haven't broken anything.

Still a few things I'd like to get some help on, though.

1) How do I have character creation set Race first? Preferably race > sex > class. I came across something about this before but now I can't find it.
1a) Alternatively, I'd like to use a more involved character creation overall with more options. (Example: Select "Elf" as a race, then choose "Light Elf" or "Wood Elf," etc)
(I think I'm actually gonna go with a "Default" starting race/class and have customization take place in an interactive zone)
1c) How would I go about having race and class set automatically when creating a character? And I guess have gender start as neutral as well, though I suppose it might do that anyway.

2) (New question) How would I go about adding extra Class slots for characters? In other words, Multiclass.

3) How do I set innate effects on races, such as elemental weakness/resistance and passive buffs?

4) How would I go about changing the elemental properties?


That's all I'm trying to work on at the moment. I have a feeling I could sort a lot of this out myself if I just knew where to look.

Well I found the topic I was looking for but didn't manage to resolve 1). I guess I missed something because I didn't manage to actually change anything when I ran the game.

Incidentally, I made a list of some other things I'm wanting to change. And please don't just say "search for X" because I am actually looking for this stuff before and after I post it.

5) How would I go about setting other power reserves besides Mana? Such as if I wanted to add Chi or Energy to certain classes the way Blood is tied to Vampires (presumably).

6) I actually haven't looked much into this, but is there support for races to be affected by time of day? Such as Undead being stronger at night or a Plant person stronger during the day?

7) How would I set whether a race requires air to breath? So that it wouldn't require Waterbreathing to stay in the water or could access a vacuum (which I'll work on coding in later if necessary).

8) How do I add or change wear locations? Such as if a race has a tail or extra arms or no legs.

9) I know SMAUG has support for body parts (one of the reasons I chose it) but how do I find/modify them based on race?

10) Minor thing, how do I change the combat message to stop saying "Decimate"? At best it should be reserved for dealing 10% damage... I think I have it saying "ravage" instead of "decimate" now.

11a) I'd like characters to have Size modifiers based on height, but I don't even know where to start on something like that. Not a high priority right now though. Don't know how to do this but I've got a workaround.
11b) I'd like the height and weight to fall in a range instead of a specific number (unless it already is? I honestly didn't check this too much)
11c) I'd like equipment based on sizes, though if necessary I'll just restrict it by races in the desired size categories Got a workaround for this.

12) How can I prevent stats being randomized on creation? I'd like all 13s to be the baseline for which racial mods are applied.

I already found a post for setting hp/mana gains to be based on unmodified stats, working on that now.

I can answer that one, I think:



That looks to be where that word appears.

As for the others, it could all be done no doubt, but I haven't looked at the code for a while. I would take one at a time and work through it.

You could try asking on the SmaugFUSS forum. This one (here) is fairly quiet these days.

Got it, thanks. Now to think of a good word to replace it with...

It seems to accept my custom races and classes just fine... for the first 15 or so. Then it lists things like R8 and Unknown for the next few. And it really, really doesn't seem to like the idea of there being more than 20 even if I change the max_class and max_race in mud.h to something higher.

I'm not trying to set them to options in the creation menu (I'm trying to get rid of the standard creation, it's just ignoring my efforts so far) I just want to be able to set this stuff separately later.

If you change the header file make sure you force a recompile of everything (eg. "make clean").

Well, now I'm worried; I don't know what the header file is. I haven't even started compiling yet, just working with the base files til I get some of the groundwork out of the way. As it is, it's easier for me to replace anything I screw up too badly.

Anything with a file name ending in .h

Ah, changing mud.h implies you compiled something.

Whelp, got caught up in physical RL work, so I haven't made any progress on my coding -_-