Monster Proposal

[Stephen]

ImpassIve made a comment in another thread about wanting a CREATURE_DEATH hook. I have also wanted some more flexible monster hooks in the past.

I propose we add the following fields to the "MonsterType" table:

* on_attack -- this is called when the monster makes an attack / swings its weapon
* on_damage -- this is called when the monster receives non-fatal damage
* on_death -- this is called when the monster is killed

(These are a bit like HOOK_CREATURE_SQUELCH etc, but there is one for each monster type instead of one "global" hook. I think this is better than using hooks )

[Romanio(Rus)]

Fully support this initiative, as it will give much more space to write mods =)

[Stephen]

This is now implemented. A snapshot is available here: http://www.solarflare.org.uk/snapshots/knights_src_2012_12_27.tar.gz (source code) or http://www.solarflare.org.uk/snapshots/knights_2012_12_27.zip (Windows binary)

In addition to "on_attack", "on_damage" and "on_death", I also added "on_move" which is called whenever the monster moves to a new square.

I also removed the "sound" property because monster sounds can now be implemented using a combination of on_attack, on_damage, on_death and on_move, as required. For example, zombies make a sound whenever on_attack, on_damage, on_death are called, and also 5% of the time when on_move is called. Bats only make their "screeching" sound when on_damage is called.

[ImpassIve_rus]

Nice news, hehe)
Will try it later

P.S. I just have installed a new router (because from today I have a VDSL connection instead of ADSL) but I have problems with playing some games in online (including Knights)
I hope I will fix this until Sunday... -_-