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Pazaz edited this page Nov 28, 2023 · 23 revisions
  • How did multi2 work in 2004? Was it @multi2 or an engine command?
    • How did the engine know to resume the script when it receives if_button for that option's component?
  • What does a Developer Manual page look like when a command involves corruption? We currently assume the _findall/next commands might be tagged as corrupting its relevant pointer, and that "corrupting" means any delays/suspensions warn about unsafely using those pointers. Find results must be stored globally and a delay no longer guarantees the results are safe to use. Would be good to have validation.
  • What arguments does map_projanim take for projectiles?
  • What are the old interface commands called? Pre-if3 and pre-cs2. We've taken some liberties based on practical uses. But there's too many unknowns, so we end up with stuff that looks like if_openmainmodal and if_opensideoverlay
  • What are all of the pointers available? last_int, active_npc/obj/loc/player etc
    • What pointers does opheldu have all exposed to it? last_item, last_useitem, last_slot, last_useslot?
  • How does firemaking prevent lighting fires inside of banks and on top of certain locs?
  • What hunt properties/values are there? We know about type, check_vis, check_nottoostring, check_notcombat, check_notcombat_self, check_notbusy, find_keephunting, find_newmode, nobodynear, rate, check_afk. Any configs we could see would help get a closer feature-perfect aggression.
  • What command checks if multiple players are inside of an NPC's hero points list (like to disable Ironman dropping)?. We only know of npc_findhero and npc_heropoints($damage). Is the loot_choosehero proc related to newer features around drop restrictions?
  • What command are used around a player's "hero points" in PKing scenarios?
  • What var properties are there? We know with varp, there's clientcode, protect, scope, transmit, and type, but we suspect it may have more based on decompiled client code.
  • Does your interface editor allow you to view old interfaces still ("if1")? They have a very simple way of conditionally switching activetext/text, activecolour/colour etc. We'd love to know what that looks like visually instead of a reverse-engineered understanding of packed output. ex: Testing a var, checking an inventory.
  • How did music regions work in 2004 before there were .area configs? Was there a trigger that ran every tile you moved? Did multi-way zones work through the same trigger?
  • How do bind effects/stuns work on players, what runs to check if a player can move?
  • How do you cancel a logout? We made a logout trigger and a command called “p_stoplogout” for this purpose. If p_stoplogout was called in this trigger it won’t remove the player.