Illegal name, capital letters

Posted by Zeno on Mon 07 Mar 2005 10:47 PM — 9 posts, 28,448 views.

Zeno USA Mon 07 Mar 2005 10:47 PM #0

One of the name rules in Smaug is this...

 - Comprised of various capital letters, such as 'BrACkkA' or 'CORTO'.

Yet they never hard coded that rule in, and that's what I'd like to do. Make names with capital letters (besides first letter of course) illegal. I know what function to modify and the basic idea how to do it, but not how to actual code it in...

David Haley USA Mon 07 Mar 2005 11:30 PM #1

Why not just 'tolower' every letter except the first?

Zeno USA Mon 07 Mar 2005 11:33 PM #2

Because then people who make "DemonSlayer" will have the name still go through. I think its better just to make these type of names illegal since people who try two word names will try it without a space next. Demon Slayer -> DemonSlayer.

David Haley USA Mon 07 Mar 2005 11:48 PM #3

But then they can type 'Demonslayer' and it'll work, so I'm not sure I see what the difference is. I'm just suggesting that you take whatever they typed, run it against other checks, and then when it's acceptable otherwise, convert all letters to lowercase except the first one.

Zeno USA Mon 07 Mar 2005 11:52 PM #4

Yeah, might as well. Now the problem is, I've searched through comm.c and I could not find where it would set ch->name on a new character.

[EDIT] What if I just did:

capitalize( argument )

Or something like that?

David Haley USA Mon 07 Mar 2005 11:56 PM #5

I think it actually uses load_char or something weird like that on a new character. I can't conveniently access the code right now (in class) but I think it's in save.c.

Zeno USA Tue 08 Mar 2005 12:02 AM #6

Well that was actually easy. Anything wrong with this?


    case CON_GET_NAME:
        if ( argument[0] == '\0' )
        {
            close_socket( d, FALSE );
            return;
        }

        argument[0] = UPPER(argument[0]);
        argument = capitalize(argument);

I mean it works fine and everything. *shrug*

Asean Novari USA Tue 08 Mar 2005 03:25 PM #7

Well i agree with the whole illegal name on the Demonslayer
issue.. but as for the capitol letter thing.. what about
people who want to have names like Jar'Kol... anyhoo.. just
my 2 cents

Zeno USA Tue 08 Mar 2005 04:16 PM #8

You mean you want to allow that name? You'd have to change the player struct around a bit, so it won't save that as a filename, or it'll strip symbols.