Practicing a new language

Posted by Taebryn on Tue 02 Mar 2004 02:04 AM — 9 posts, 26,696 views.

Taebryn Tue 02 Mar 2004 02:04 AM #0

smaug 1.4a
i have this in skills.dat for my new language

#SKILL
Name animal~
Type Tongue
Info 0
Flags 0
Code spell_null
Dammsg ~
Teachers 4042~
Minlevel 1
End

the teachers are still not able to teach the language
how can i have my players practice it?

Greven Canada Tue 02 Mar 2004 06:14 AM #1

I beleive that you must also add an entry to TONGUE_FILE. This is required for all languages in 1.4. There may be more, but start with that.

Taebryn Wed 03 Mar 2004 02:06 AM #2

where do you see tounge_file?

Greven Canada Wed 03 Mar 2004 05:08 AM #3

#define TONGUE_FILE	SYSTEM_DIR "tongues.dat"  /* Tongue tables	 */

Taebryn Wed 03 Mar 2004 10:55 PM #4

yes yes, its in there
i made my own language in tounges.dat and skills.dat
but the Teachers tag doesnt work for languages?

Greven Canada Wed 03 Mar 2004 11:10 PM #5

Oh, I beleive that you need the scholar flag for that

Nick Cash USA Thu 04 Mar 2004 12:33 AM #6

Also, this could be the problem (not sure, just something to note)

Quote:

Teachers 4042~

It is reading numbers correct? In my code I'm used to not having the ~ after a number. Its generally a terminating character for fread_string correct?

Greven Canada Thu 04 Mar 2004 12:35 AM #7

Teachers are stored in a string, so that it can have more than one teacher. It uses is_name, I beleive to parse the string to see the the teachers vnum is equal to one of the words(numbers) in string.

Nick Cash USA Thu 04 Mar 2004 02:01 AM #8

Good to know. I guess next time I won't post from school where I don't have access to my code to backup what I'm saying. :)