Few questions on monsters

[Lewell Therin]

Ok, have a few questions on monsters now :)



Firstly, what does the Accu/Spell variable do?



Second, how do I control a monster's accuracy?



Lastly, I have a problem. I made a small new area and 2 new monsters to put in it. The monsters regen fine but when Im in a room with a monster, the board will crash. I think it only happens when they land a hit on me. Ive been able to go a few rounds with them where all their swings were misses but a round or two into the fight, the board will crash and give me an Access Violation. Im using 1.11i.



Thanks in advance.

[syntax53]

first of all, very good detail -- i'm impressed. usually we get questions that we have to reread four times just to understand what they were trying to type ;)



Originally posted by Lewell Therin

Ok, have a few questions on monsters now :)



Firstly, what does the Accu/Spell variable do?



Accu/Spell depends on the type of attack selected. if it's a normal attack, then it's the accuracy of the attack. if it's a spell attack , then that field is for the spell number. the other field labels are the same for the attacks (having two meanings).



Originally posted by Lewell Therin

Second, how do I control a monster's accuracy?



well i sorta answered this in the last one. you would change the accuracy slot for normal attacks and i guess you could change cast % for spells to make it cast less. attack % is how often it attacks with that attack.



Originally posted by Lewell Therin

Lastly, I have a problem. I made a small new area and 2 new monsters to put in it. The monsters regen fine but when Im in a room with a monster, the board will crash. I think it only happens when they land a hit on me. Ive been able to go a few rounds with them where all their swings were misses but a round or two into the fight, the board will crash and give me an Access Violation. Im using 1.11i.



Thanks in advance.



your "think it only happens when they land a hit on me." is key here. it's good observation and probably means that the weapon/spell/attack you've assigned the monster has a bad message assigned to it somewhere. most like caused by a %s or %d in the wrong place or missing. they are very syntactical and hard to pinpoint.



-syn

[Platinum]

syntactical..heh, I like that word..what does it mean?

[syntax53]

Originally posted by Platinum

syntactical..heh, I like that word..what does it mean?



syn·tac·tic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sn-tktk) or syn·tac·ti·cal (-t-kl)

adj.

Of, relating to, or conforming to the rules of syntax.





syn·tax ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sntks)

n.



The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.

A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.

The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.

Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.

Computer Science. The rules governing the formation of statements in a programming language.

A systematic, orderly arrangement.

[dxpac666]

Accu/Spell depends on the type of attack selected. if it's a normal attack, then it's the accuracy of the attack. if it's a spell attack , then that field is for the spell number. the other field labels are the same for the attacks (having two meanings).





Well I'll be damned. Well what about the monsters like... i dunno, Demonhunter, it has 160 in that slot. 160% Accuracy? Or am I misunderstanding. Weird... I'm learning something.

[Helmut]

Originally posted by syntax53





Of, relating to, or conforming to the rules of syntax.







What are your rules? You should post them so we can all be syntactical.:gleam:

[dxpac666]

I tested out a monster with 200 accuracy (supposedly) and someone with like 80/6 ac or something was fightin it and it swung 4 times. the player dodged once, and the other 3 swings were missed. Don't know if this means anything, but whatever.