.DT combat $MUDNAME$ living help combat Name .SI 5 combat - How things beat each other up. .EI Description .SP 5 5 Combat is controlled on both the player object and the monster objects by the function attack(). Each call to the attack function does an attack. The attack function also checks all of the object in its attackers_list to see if they are in the room it is in. If they are not it puts them in another array and starts up a call_out. It then checks to see if the person is wielding a weapon. If they are it uses that for the damage, else it uses the player object itself. This function also checks the attacking object to see if it is being protected, if it is, it redirects the attacks. The attacking object is selected randomly from the attacker_list unless the concentrate pramater is set using set_concentrate(). If this is set then the monster will only attack the first thing in its attacker_list. (Well until it dies anyway). The function attack_by(this_object()) is called on the object we are attacking. The function attack_by(ob) puts the object into the attackers_array on the object it is called on. The function attack_ob(ob) puts the attacker in the attackers_array as well. In fact both of these functions do very similar things. Once all of these things are done, the actuall attack is called on the weapon. This is done by calling the function weapon_attack(attackee, attacker) is called on the weapon, or on the object itself. If the flag, always use natural attacks is set, then the default natural attacks will also be used even if the object is wielding a weapon. (set_natural()). The weapon itself calculates the damage by calling the function query_ac() on the object being attacked with the attack type. (ie "sharp" or "blunt"). This is then subtracted from the value "to hit" that is gained from the attack, if the value is greater than 0 then the attack is said to have "hit". If it hits then a second "damage" value is calculated and this also has the armour class subtracted off it, this is the actual damage done to the creature. The weapon_attack function also returns the amount of xp to add onto the attacking creature. A more detailed explanation of weapon attacks. A weapon attack consists of three parts. A "base", a "to hit" and a "damage" part. The way that hits and damage is calculated is like this. .EP .SI 5 hit_value = base + to_hit if (hit_value > 0) then damage = base + damage /* The way this is actualy done is damage = hit_value - to_hit + damage */ endif .EI .SP 5 5 As all this is calculated, weapons and armours are also damaged. If an armour protects against an attack it has a chance (equal to the damage_change variable) of being damaged. The amount of damage done is equal to the amount of damage done by the weapon. The same follows on the weapons. .EP See also .SP 5 5 attack, query_attacker_list, set_damage_chance, set_natural, set_protector set_concentrate .EP
