EQEmulator Forums - PBAE and distance checks

I was trying to put in Vox's breath (Frosty Death, spell#952 -- or Frosty Death2, spell#1356), and the breath never would go off. After turning spell debugging on I saw what was happening: the entry in spells_us.txt had a range of 0. I assume most if not all of the PBAE spells have a range of 0 since range isn't applicable with a pbae. I was able to get the breath to go off only if I /summoned her on top of me.

I made this change to the MobAI.cpp file so that if the spell is targettype 4 (pbae) then the distance check doesn't have to pass:

The change is in line 84 of zone/MobAI.cpp. (As of the 6/21/04 release it's on line 84 -- dunno if that's the case in later CVS's)

Change from:

Code:

dist <= spells[AIspells[i].spellid].range

to:

Code:

(dist <= spells[AIspells[i].spellid].range || spells[AIspells[i].spellid].targettype == 4)

If you wanna change the debug messages so they now accurately show the new logic:

Line 92, add this to the end of the line:

Code:

<< "||targettype[" << spells[AIspells[i].spellid].targettype << "]==4"

and change line 206 to read:

Code:

cout &lt;&lt; "Mob::AICastSpell: NotCasting: spellid=" &lt;&lt; AIspells[i].spellid &lt;&lt; ", tar=" &lt;&lt; tar->GetName() &lt;&lt; ",tar=" &lt;&lt; tar->GetName() &lt;&lt; ", dist[" &lt;&lt; dist &lt;&lt; "]&lt;=" &lt;&lt; spells[AIspells[i].spellid].range &lt;&lt; "||targettype[" &lt;&lt; spells[AIspells[i].spellid].targettype &lt;&lt; "]==4" &lt;&lt; ", mana_cost[" &lt;&lt; mana_cost &lt;&lt; "]&lt;=" &lt;&lt; GetMana() &lt;&lt; ", cancast[" &lt;&lt; AIspells[i].time_cancast &lt;&lt; "]&lt;=" &lt;&lt; Timer::GetCurrentTime() &lt;&lt; endl;

(Damn that's a long line :P)

After that, Vox started AE'ing quite nicely... much to the dismay of cocky young adventurers everywhere :lol: