User:Crush/Scripting

ToDo List for script bindings on the new server:

World Interaction

• Modify the map
  • Collision
  • Tile appearance
  • Overlays
  • Music
  • Game rules like PvP allowed/denied.
• Activate weather effects
• Query and set persistent global variables
• Spawn particle effects
• Global announcements
• Check walkability of tiles

Being interaction

• Spawn beings
• Move beings
• Hurt beings
• Make beings perform different actions
• Remove beings
• Callback functions for events like
  • death
  • leave game
  • change map
  • getting hurt
• Get beings in area
• Apply/Remove status effects to beings
• Query and set being attributes
• GM Cheats
• Query the direction a being is facing

Character interaction

• query/set hairstyle and color
• query and set skill experience

Player interaction

• Sending private chat messages
• Sending dialog box messages (and catch the players answer?)
• Maybe control GUI windows? (could be useful for tutorial)

Dialog system

• Text input boxes
• Show images

Chat interaction

• Log chat channels
• Send messages to chat channels
• Filter chat channels (useful for flexible censorship systems) - needs either script support on account server or the netcode to route the chat of a chat channel through a game server when it is requested by it.
• access / control users in chat channel

AI

• Command monsters
  • Override attack target selection
  • Override move target selection
  • Make the monster use combat abilities
  • Override spawn and death events

Idea: class ScriptedMonster is a derivate from class Monster. It replaces every member function of the monster class with a call to a LUA function. This LUA function can call the function from the base class. This would allow to selectively replace or complement any behavior of the monster. This requires:

• Access to all member variables and functions of class Monster (including protected variables)

General

• Set timers
• Querry external data sources (already possible with LUA interpreter?)
  • Local file
  • HTTP
  • Database

Inter-map scripting

• Executing script code in the context of the script object of another map which might even be on a different server.