How to add proper skill to sword.

stranf · Post by **stranf** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:43 am

I took one of the Mondain's Legacy elf-swords off of Inside UO, and added a DFN entry as a "Lightsword"

The sword works, all stats appear proper, but my Master Swordsman, (swords 96, fencing 47, macefighting 9.6, tactics 99) rarely EVER scores a hit (tested against simple orcs). It hit once with a "thud" sound. (is it using the mace skill?)

How does UOx3 know which skill-set to place the weapon under?

Here is my sample DFN entry:

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[lightsword]
{
facing West
get=base_item
name=Lightsword
id=0x2d2f
weight=550
value=58,29
layer=1
lodamage=20
hidamage=25
hp=75
spd=32
str=50
restock=10
decay=1




}

Post by **Xuri** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:52 am

Hardcoded. The newest weapons probably haven't been added to the lists which defines hex-ids as SWORDS, MACES, POLEARMS etc in the code yet, so whenever you equip one of them you'll actually be using the wrestling skill.

stranf · Post by **stranf** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:13 pm

darnit.

giwo · Post by **giwo** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:14 pm

Yeah, we haven't come up with a truly memory-efficient way of classifying weapon types via scripts yet.

Especially since items can be made without calling the scripts, that tag would have to exist in harditems.dfn as well as items.dfn, and require a harditems entry for every single weapon type.

Post by **Xuri** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:41 pm

I've updated the source with the newest weapon-classifications locally, but can't seem to access the cvs to commit the change. Will do so as soon as possible.

Post by **Xuri** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:53 pm

Done, it's up on the CVS

stranf · Post by **stranf** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:08 am

Wow! that was fast.

Thanks everybody.

As soon as grimson posts a new CVS update download, I'll give it a test!!

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:26 pm

stranf wrote:As soon as grimson posts a new CVS update download, I'll give it a test!!

Then give it a try

.

stranf · Post by **stranf** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:18 pm

Thank you much Grimson.

How have you been feeling lately? Glad to see you back.

stranf · Post by **stranf** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:45 am

The Mondain's Legacy blade 0x2d2f

Is set on 3.6e as a "fencing weapon"

For my custom item using that animation, I'd prefer the Swordsmanship skill.

Is there a way to change this?

I looked in harditems.dfn and it seems to only contain blood splots and "doors" But no weapon section.

Post by **Xuri** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:50 pm

Only possible by changing the hardcoded definition of that sword from fencing to swordsmanship.

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How to add proper skill to sword.

How to add proper skill to sword.