Question Adding Attack Types

I've been searching around for a little while, and I haven't found anything yet that explains how to add a new attack type. For instance, I wanted to add "cleave" and "chop." I'm sifting through the code to see if I can figure out how to do it, but if anyone has any pointers, they'd be much appreciated.

Papaya Pete wrote: I've been searching around for a little while, and I haven't found anything yet that explains how to add a new attack type. For instance, I wanted to add "cleave" and "chop." I'm sifting through the code to see if I can figure out how to do it, but if anyone has any pointers, they'd be much appreciated.

I don't think a tutorial exists for this. Just search/grep for cleave and copy the code accordingly and post your results. We can help with any problems you run into.

oh, by the way. the messages for the weapon attack types are located in lib/misc in the file "messages".

Ah... spells.h. I checked a lot of other files, yet didn't check that one thoroughly! Good grief.

It looks like that was the missing bit. Compiles cleanly; I'll keep you guys posted if there's anything that doesn't seem to work right.

What IDE are you using to develop? I am currently using Visual Studio 2012 and have been very impressed with the intellisense in it and ability to quickly find any bits of code and or replace things.

For example.. on this thing.. if you knew sting was an attack type you could just search for sting to get to the areas I pointed out. On your server you can also just grep for it, but that is case sensitive although there is an ignore case flag for grep.