Monster Summoning line

00000100 · #1 01-22-2009, 03:48 PM

The spell is implemented. It is purchasable/droppable/research-able...in short, it's in the game and it's in the DB; the problem is that it's in there incorrectly. The pet can be summoned, it can be equipped with weapons and armor, it can fight and be buffed, but it always looks like a male human. If advanced models are turned on, it looks like a male human with a beard floating above his left shoulder, rotated 90 degrees CCW, and his hair is floating about 6" (estimated in-game, not on screen) from his head. It is supposed to take the form of a random mob in the zone, and it clearly isn't.

unknownhost · #2 01-22-2009, 06:33 PM

never looked at the spell but it sounds like it is ether not using a random npc list or its spawning random npc graphics in an uncompatable zone?

curious with the beard thing, sounds "coldain" ish. is velious era spell line if its mebbe pulling those graphics in specificly.

ahh well, just a wanabe-hack guessing here, surely one of the masters will swing by an lay out the code in source before long.

00000100 · #3 01-24-2009, 03:31 PM

Well, I took some screenshots months ago when I first noticed this.

provocating · #4 05-05-2009, 10:15 PM

I am bringing this thread back, is there a fix for this yet ?

Vaughn2117 · #5 06-18-2009, 02:33 PM

I loved the Monster Summoning line of spells, i hope it can be fix'd

**realityincarnate** · #6 06-18-2009, 10:59 PM

I think I have the Monster Summoning line working properly as of revision 691. Try it out and let me know if there are any other issues or anything not working as it should.

steve · #7 06-18-2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by realityincarnate

I think I have the Monster Summoning line working properly as of revision 691. Try it out and let me know if there are any other issues or anything not working as it should.

How did you set the models that it uses? The reason it was discontinued on Live was because each zone needed to be gone through manually for each expansion, selecting a handful of models from that zone for it to work. It got too tedious to maintain, so was phased out.

Are you just having it randomly choose from a global model?

**cavedude** · #8 06-18-2009, 11:14 PM

No, it's even more brilliant! He's getting the model from a NPC in the same zone. Very clever.

steve · #9 06-19-2009, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by cavedude

No, it's even more brilliant! He's getting the model from a NPC in the same zone. Very clever.

Eh? How does the server know what models are loaded? Is it checking the database to look for models loading and compiling a list for each zone at the time the server is started?

Sorry, I don't know enough about SVN to go look myself