an admin came up with a great idea, having creatures only available in certain cities.  So you could have snowmen and penguins in the winter village, garlic monsters and pick-wielding villagers in the vampire city, etc.  Now, i can do it with the EZ creatures module fine, just have to make the core edit to forest.php.  Am i right is assuming this can't be done with a module?

well, that was with new areas.  and check the objpref if they are enabled in that area.

with my creature addon you can specify a flag to that creature.  from there you can create your own areas/forests which will pull only those creatures flagged.

Of course I haven't gotten around to coding an example of that yet.  been too busy with other things.

And yes, Kendear did say object preferences where the way to go which is what I used.  works quite nicely.

should:)  I'm not seeing any hooks in forest.php after line 108, where the creature is selected.

right, valhalla does this, and has a flag to look at objpref or EZ creature.  both are in the module.



Now, what may need to be done is hook into battle, see if the $badguy selected is allowed in that location, if not, reselect a $badbuy that is.  which, sounds like it could be messy if other modules hook in, or if the $badguy is already displayed...

ok, my brain is so fried.  help?

1.  i'm running into the issue where $args isn't returning.  You can see by the multitude of debug statements, that it is being set in the module.

2.  why isn't it setting "gotcreat" to 1?  GAWD, WHY IS IT NOT SETTING IT TO 1???

ha, i'm tired, but i've been looking at this over and over, i just don't get it.  someone point out the obvious to me, i know it has to be obvious.


btw, you'll have to set atleast 1 creature in your level to your location in order to test.

You are setting this as an objpref?

hmm, with buffbadguy, there's no way to tie it just to the forest encounters.

also, i was hoping to change more than just the name, weapon, etc.  I wanted to load a whole new creature, making it possible to have some forests harder than others too.

but it is working with buffbadguy with just renaming the creature.

any tips on getting it to do the other things?