Spells - target_type request

[John Adams]

They are very needy, apparently.

Well, embarassing as that copy/paste is, my excuse is that i was busy yesterday doing 12 things at once and well, forgot. And committed. Where's Xinux with the rude, insensitive insults when you need him?

[John Adams]

Ahh, I see what's going on here now. My target is Galinda Goodfaith in FfS. She is set to attackable = 0. My spell is set to "Enemy" and "friendly_spell" and I just noticed the logger getting hit for implied target:

14:56:17 D Spell : Snowball!: Casting on John through Galinda Goodfaith as target.

I think I'm getting blasted by my own spell via

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if (caster->IsPlayer() && target->HasTarget())

cuz I guess Galinda targets me the moment I target her?

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							if (secondary_target->IsPlayer())
							{
								implied = true;
							}
.
.
		//if using implied target, target = the implied target
		if (implied)
		{
			target = secondary_target;
			luaspell->initial_target = secondary_target;
		}

Does this mean I am the secondary target?

[Jabantiz]

That's what seems to be happening, didn't know a spawn targeted you back when you targeted them though.

On a side not I logged on live to look at the creature catalog ability, only spell I know of you can cast on any spawn (NPC, Players, not ground spawns however), and examine says enemy.

LiveCatalogueCreature.png

[John Adams]

Doesn't EQ2 have "vision" spells like EQ1 had? Like, Seeing Eyes or whatever... look through the eyes of the NPC. I am at a loss off the top of my head as to casting something on an NPC in a "friendly" manner.

It is likely our old Snowball stuff worked years ago since the code was in it's infancy, and has now grown to be more live-like. It is not important that we cast friendly spells ON npcs... except for cool customization (make NPC say something, change their appearance, etc).

"Throw Snowball" can be done in Emu as proper, a click-able item instead. We didn't have clickies back then

[thefoof]

Doesn't EQ2 have "vision" spells like EQ1 had? Like, Seeing Eyes or whatever... look through the eyes of the NPC. I am at a loss off the top of my head as to casting something on an NPC in a "friendly" manner.

It is likely our old Snowball stuff worked years ago since the code was in it's infancy, and has now grown to be more live-like. It is not important that we cast friendly spells ON npcs... except for cool customization (make NPC say something, change their appearance, etc).

"Throw Snowball" can be done in Emu as proper, a click-able item instead. We didn't have clickies back then

We could maybe add a value to the spell table to override the implied target /error check for weird spells like that. I don't think EQ2 has that type of spell, but one weird one I can think off the top of my head that behaves in this manner is the cleric (or maybe it's just templar?) spell soothe. It reduces the aggro radius of a target, but doesn't initiate combat if it fails.