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Changes from Crossfire 0.92.4 to 0.92.5: Som bug fixes made dealing with cursed improvement potions. Always let players learn spells if they are in their starting spellbook. New attack methodology put in palce. To put in simply, if there is only 1 attacktype, things remain the same. If there are multiple attacktypes, we cycle through them one by one, and take the one that does the best damage and use it. Some attacktypes no longer do damage - they are effects (ie, paralyzation, slow.) In the case of of these, the effect will always be applied if appropriate. Code looks to behave pretty much the same, but is easier to follow. IF new code is buggy, or you don't want it, there is a define at the top of attack.c you can change. If god blesses you, lets actually remove the depletion object from the player inventory. Other god related fixes put in place - look to also deal with blessed weapons. Additional dump flag added. fix bugs with USE_BUTTONS and the peaceful button. Only allow write_rune to use objects of type RUNE Bugfix in get_pointed_target if it can't find a target - prevents endless loop NRSPELLPATHS set to correct value. Remove null terminator from gods array - not needed anymore. Fix savethrow array size to match maxlevel properly (was 1 short) remove damnation and remove curse now cleric spells. Fix some header code to better work on solaris 2.5 Support for compilation with the dmalloc (debug malloc) package. Allow altars and related items to match objects based on type. Use hp field of altar object as the type to match. Library patch by Brian Thomas. Various skill fixes by Brian Thomas. Alchemy patch by Brian Thomas. Here is a copy of his README: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The amount of work I put into this was substantial; other than new code -- I created new archetypes, revised archetypes, altered the treasures file and created 2 new object types and a flag. It therefore may be enjoyable to install this patch (incl code) and *not* define ALCHEMY in define.h. In particular, this patch does the following things: 1) more varieties of potions are available in shops. 2) new gems and types of food. 3) monsters will now leave behind body parts when you kill them. 4) if ALCHEMY is defined players may make potions/artifacts. I have included instructions for installation in INSTALL.PATCH, and a brief document for using the code (Alchemy.doc). Finally, as always, feedback is appreciated. b.t. thomas@astro.psu.edu + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.92.3 to 0.92.4: Various bug fixes to readable code. Let altars be able to cast spells. sp field determine what spell to cast. Fix obscure bug that an arrow can be 'killed' if a monster that has hitback moves onto it while it is moving. Thus would then cause problems because apply would try to remove the object after it had been killed. Give quetzalcoatl melee attack skill. Give experience for clawing attacks. Include literacy skill with fighter skill - this should now give all starting classes literacy skill. I think it improves play balance. Don't mark a players starting money as being start equipment - otherwise they can't drop it on identify altars and it can get merged with money gained at a later date, yet still be marked as starting equipment. Bug fix in keybindings so that we check return of XKeysymToString to make sure we don't use a null value. Some keyboards have keys with no names, and on some systems, passing a null pointer as a string causes it to crash. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.92.2 to 0.92.3: Removed ability to use unpaid objects for sacrifices. Changed weapon improvement code to be based on skill levels (if skills are used.) Code in place to generate hit points by average of fighter and overall level - to enable this, change the #if 0 to #if 1 at around line 1040 in common/living.c Books hack by Brian Thomas. This mainly means that when emptry books are created (or are otherwise on the map), that they will be filled with some type of information. Some (like monster/spells/gods/artifacts) are generated via the program itself. Information from a messages file that is stored in lib can also be found. Experience can be gained by reading this information. Read/write patch by Brian Thomas. This mainly encompasses the fact that players can now write messages in books, that you must be literate enough (as determined by literacy skill level) to read various books/scrolls. Scrolls are now not identified, but literacy can be used to identify them. Players can still read signs even if they are not literated (needed for game balance/ information) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.92.1 to 0.92.2: Give artifact Gram weapon attacktype physical|confusion. Before, it was only confusion which would never actually damage anything. If a player dies in a shop, remove any unpaid items from his inventory and put them back in the map. Only applies in NOT_PERMADEATH mode. Put in better DM security - now checks for name, password, and hostname (any of those can be wildcarded out) - see the lib/dm_file for some demo. To supply a password for dm mode, just use dm with the password (ie, "'dm <fireball>") Lighting code added (with various support objects, spells, etc). No maps support this yet. Don't baptize altars if we are in the editor. Leave altars the way they are so that they will be baptized the crossfire loads the map instead. Allow the title of and object to be set from within crossedit. Allow individual players to set the inventory icon, now longer a compile time option. If we get a non critical error and do an emergency save just in case, then don't remove any information/objects. This probably fixes the disappearing inventory bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.92.0 to 0.92.1: Improved altar sacrifice code (actually, any object type that calls check_altar) - treat a slaying field of 'money' as something special- don't care what form the money is in (see docs for more details) Improve identify table (in conjunction with altar code above) - now takes any type of money, won't take money if nothing needs to be identified, will identify as many things as money is dropped for (ie, drop 200 gold, it will do 10 items) In the map attributes in crossedit, you can select an option called "ShowWeakWalls". If this is selected, weak walls will be shown in a partial teardown state - makes working with some maps much easier. New client updated to support Power and Grace stats. Magic system broken into 2 forms of magic - clerical and mage (they are now seperate). Power stat also added to the game - plays into mage spellpoint (mana) total. Grace also added - used for cleric spell casting. Skill system greatly expanded - different experience types with skills associated with them (only has meaning if you are using the skill code) - thus you gain experience for certain categories as you use certain skills - see doc/skills.doc for more info Multiple gods added (via config option in config.h) - basically, different gods have different enemies, and the effects cleric spells have will depend on this. Altars are created for different gods. See doc/Multigod.doc for more information. Along with this, some new spells were added. Fix a problem of some objects falling out of sight when they shouldn't. Send delete item to client if decrease_ob reduces the items nrof to 0. Weight should now be fixed up when transferring stuff to/from containers. config option called NO_AUTO_SKILL_SWITCH added - it means range type doesn't automatically get switched to skill type when using melee weapon. Main effects is that it makes it easier to switch between melee and range weapons (pretty much makes it like it was prior to the skill code.) Sack code cleaned up - we don't need to split an object to see if it will actually fit in a container - we can just say how many we want to try to put in. Actually put wimpy command back in (all code was there, just the link to call the fucntion was missing.) Increase max count from 9999 to 99,999. Wasn't that uncommen for high level characters to have more than 10000 platinum coins. When invoking spells, temporarily switch the range type to range_magic - otherwise, a proper check for spellpoints is not done, and it then becomes possible to go negative. Modified crossloop so that it renames and compresses any core files created while it is running - very handy for debugging (note that you could easily modify it to remove the core files instead.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.9 to 0.92.0: Make sure the weight a container is carrying can never go below 0. Fixed fall below code, so that objects with visibility will not fall below objects that otherwise blocks view. Fixed colormap problems with xpm graphics on black and white displays. ALLOW_SKILLS is now the default in the config.h file. IS_SUMMON_SPELL macro fixed (= was supposed to be ==) Artifact foods added by Brian Thomas. These are foods that can give some nice benefits (stat improvements, etc), or be much nastier poisons. Bug fix made to skill selection that would otherwise cause core dumps. Bug fix made to query_cost that would cause core dumps if the alchemy spell was used. Fixed bug in dimension door that would cause core dumps if cast from a wand. find_target_for_friendly_spell fixed to use the get_owner call instead of referring to op->owner (get_owner should always be used.) Fixed core dumps that were caused when the owner would be killed, but still have a pet monster (vampires as an example.) get_owner makes checks to make sure the owner still exists. Only set the windows colormap if on a color display. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.8 to 0.91.9: Changed some parameter names from spell to spellnum. Some compilers don't like parameter names that match structure names. Alot of skill code added by Brian Thomas. Assume that Suns running solaris have strncasecmp. Also, if using Xpm_Pix, assume the strcasecmp is available (the Xpm library should provide it.) get_player_ob function now uses the CALLOC define, instead of just calloc. When dropping items onto objects that blocks view, they now fall below the object that blocks the view. XPM mode now works with private colormaps. It will also switch to a private colormap if it runs out of color during the xpm creation (works for crossedit also). Don't let players put starting equipment into containers. A bows weapon class (WC) is now used to determined hit probability for arrows. When a player dies (in NOT_PERMADEATH mode), the character is immediately saved. Thus, if you die there is no advantage to crashing the server, hoping for a copy of your character from before you died. Set the value to 0 for arrows created with the create missile spell. When transferrance is cast excessively, don't hit the person receiving the spell with 9999 points of physical damage (otherwise, spell can be used to kill many powerful monsters.) Made some changes to make it compile properly under Solaris. Fixed bug in dropall that would cause an infinite loop if the player had an open container. Exits can now inflict damage on players. Fixed middle mouse button missle attack. Now clears the fire_on flag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.7 to 0.91.8: Messages about an objects speed no longer printed to the console. When players exit maps, no longer inform all the other players. install-same and install-font directives added to lib/Imakefile - used if game is being installed to same font it was unpacked in. Client now supports receiving bitmaps - server does not support sending them, however. Max experience achievable is based on max level, not a hard coded value (although, at present time, max level is hardcoded to 100) insert_ob_in_ob now returns an object - needed for client/server code. check_inv function added to button.c. Trigger will be altered depending if the character has a matching item (or lack of a matching item.) Option added to config.h to make it so that backup saves will save the player back at home, instead of the present map. Code adapated from code sent by John Steven Moerk (jsm@axon.ksc.nasa.gov) Minor bug in crossedit fixed that would cause it to exit if both -p and -xpm is specified. Both can now be specified - it will effectively ignore the -pix portion. New skills added, with corresponding code to use these skills (from Brian Thomas) Use of skill code is selectable in the config.h file. Two new spells: summon fog and steambolt (from Brian Thomas) Enchant armor code added (from Brian Thomas) Fixed bug in crossedit that would cause it to core dump whenever a non exit was selected and then the enter command run. Fixed bug in attack.c that was using info_all if CASTING_TIME was selected. Made it so that decrease_ob_nr will never decrease the object number below 0. This fixes a bug in that remove_ob would calculate a negative weight, and then call sub_weight with that negative value. This ended up resulting in weight being added to the player instead of subtracted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.6 to 0.91.7: Item saving throw changed around - items are only invulernable to attack types that they are protectected or immune to. For example, if an item is protected from magic, and is is by AT_FIRE | AT_MAGIC, it still needs to save against fire. Before, since it was protected from magic and the attack type includes magic, it would not have been affected in any way. insert_ob_in_map_simple function added. This is used in functions that what to examine all the objects on a space, yet insert new objects as it goes (polymorph). This function will not merge objects, so traversing the stack will work fine. Should fix removing removed object bugs that used to happen for polymorph (function should be used in other functions that do a similar thing) Damage field in objects is now 16 bits (signed). Needed because some high level spells would do more damage than could be stored in signed 8 bits. The 'old' client program no longer compares versions - there is no reason to, since the client doesn't do anything that requires an exact version match. Better handling of the Eutl library added - selection is now done in crosssite.def. Large lake faces expanded - now set up like walls, where auto join works. walls pick file expanded to include this image series and some other walls that were not previously set. Pacify spell added - code from Brian Thomas Show invisible and X-ray spell added (code by Peter Mardahl) Face data is static - that is to say the the color for any face can not be changed. In order to do a face with a different color, a new face needs to be created (or perhaps linked to the old). This change was made because for client/server communication, having a known color for each image greatly simplify things (also, on monochrome or XPM displays, color information didn't have any effect). Related changes: 1) color information is no longer stored in the archetypes file, but continues to be stored in the individual .arc files. collect.pl has been modified to store this information in a faces file. 2) visibility variable added. This is a face value, and it is meant to take the place of the DOUBLE_FLOOR_PATCH. System will work like this if DOUBLE_FLOOR_PATCH is enabled: the floor and the object with the highest visibility + the top object will be drawn. 3) color can not be changed in maps - in fact, since color is now stored in a different file, the color handling for objects has been removed. Note - when loading a map with crossedit, this information is silently ignored. Thus, when then saving the map, the color information will be lost. The maps should be updated with new faces if this color information is imporant. The lib/adm/map_info perl program now will print out warning messages for maps that are using color changes. Also, the code in loader.c can easily be changed to print out when it loads a color change (disabled because it is too verbose for most uses) PLAYER_COLORS config option and code support removed - with new static face information above, this can not be supported in any real way. Shop buildings no longer have is_floor set. This was a hack for the DOUBLE_FLOOR_PATCH for XPM mode. However, enabling it can make it so objects disappear beneath the shops (due to the way maps save.) Having objects not disappear is much more important (IMHO) than having things look just a little bit nicer for XPM mode. Archetypes exist for it, but are in the dev/unused/0.91/7/mood_floor directory, since no maps presently use them Mood floors added (code by thomas@nomad.astro.psu.edu). When activated, these floors can change the mode/flags of monsters (make them aggressive, make them unagressive, make them fall asleep, or charm them) New output mode in place - this uses a much smarter buffering method - it keeps track of several messages, and how often they are flushed is setable with the output-sync and output-flush commands (a help file does exist). All the various draw/write functions have been cleaned up, so that there now exists only 1 front end function (new_draw_info), which takes flags, priority, object, and the actual string. The flags are defined in newclient.h, as NDI_* (in this file because client should use the color flags sometime in the future, and it makes sense to keep all the flags in one place). Priority corresponds to the listen level that the player has set - the lower priority, the more likely it will be printed. Certain runes/traps now work properly (things like create bomb and magic draining would not work if the player is not on the same square as the rune) When a player kills a window, the players objects will be destroyed and not placed on the map. Scrolls, rods, wands, and staves will always be at least level 1. Beefed up demilich's. Previously, for the experience they were worth, it was much to easy to kill them. Main difference is that now their speed is 0.25 compared to 0.06 Fixed minor bugs with player movers - if the object to be moved had a speed greater than 1, it was possible to avoid all affects of the mover. Objects that slay are fixed up. Previously, only if the race matched the slaying type did it work. Now, in addition, f the race of archetype name matches the slaying, the object will slay. This fixes stakes, and probably a lot of other items that weren't slaying creatures properly. Changed some of the stat bonuses/penalties for all the classes. All the 'normal' races now have a net total of 0 (fireborn, wraith, and quetzalcoatl are not considered normal races, so their totals are unchanged.) Some of the items in the artifacts file have been fixed up - fixed spelling errors and errors in placement of the difficulty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.5 to 0.91.6: When player stops attacking, make sure his speed_left is not larger than his normal speed. Fixes a bug where you could attack a wall, then try to attack in another direction, and move quite quickly for a short time, since weapon speed would be used for that short burst of movement. Drain attacks become attack type physical when the character reaches the mininum experience possible. Do not allow equipped weapons to be improved if they would make it too powerful for the character to use. errmsg buffer sized increased to HUGE_BUF. Should fix some bugs that were causes when this was overflowed in dump_object2. SOUND_EFFECTS (if selected) is now defined when compiling all files. Previously, it was only set when compiling files in the server directory - this had the effect that the player structure was different between the server and common area. speed+2 items now increase speed properly. Values in the computation were not being cast to floats, so a speed+2 ended up giving the same amount of speed as a speed+1 item. Restoration changed around. The spell will no longer restore depleted stats - this can only be done with the potion. The potion is now only generic restoration - specific stat restoration potions removed. Also, perceive self will now tell the player what stats are drained and by how much. Reduce the amount of experience you get from killing other players to 1/10'th what it used to be. This should also discourage players from killing other players. SAVE_PLAYER removed from configurable options - it is always on. I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to be able to use this, and if you really don't want to use it, removing the save directory would pretty much work. Fixed dropall command. It wasn't dropping all items (seemed to stop at first locked item.) Also, 'dropall armour' now drops helmets in addition to shields and armor. Fixed heroism potion. It was casting the incorrect spell (detect curse). Now it casts heroism. Fixed bug that would cause remove object to try and remove object. When loading maps, an object in a container in a container would not be inserted (this mostly happened with an object in a chest in an icecube.) Changed code in load_objects to a recursive call, which can handle inventories any number of layers deep. Fixed bug in drop_all that would cause core dumps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.4 to 0.91.5 Inventory icons are now updated properly. Also, the inv_name and look_name arrays in the player structure have been redone - these are now arrays of function pointers and use the shared string libraries to allocated and free storage. This should take less space than the fixed size arrays that were previously used. When buying equipment, weight is now subtracted properly from the player for the coins that are used. Maps can now have a fixed reset time. This means that the map will reset after a set amount of time, no matter whether it is accessed or not. Useful for highly used maps that really need to be reset once in a while. Bug fixed in get_ob_diff. The difference array would get overflow, corrupting other data. Many core dumps were probably caused by this. Fixed bug in legal_range routine where legal_range would only check to first item of type BOW in a players inventory. This caused rotateshoottype to not list the bow entry if it was not the first bow equipped. Cloaks are not always turned into artifacts - normal cloaks can be found now. Charisma bonus changed around some more. Penalties are not quite as harsh for very ugly characters - with the change, a character will never pay more than 10 times to buy something than to sell that same item. Various functions changed around and some new ones added so things will work properly with the new client (still under developement.) Most notable changes were to common/xutil.c, with the newclient.c and newsocket.c files added. Unpaid items that are alchemied are now worth nothing. TWO_BYTES_FONT is now a standard. I can't see crossfire ever going back to having less than 256 images. free map->tmpname when it is no longer needed (before setting it to NULL). this pointer is assigned from a tempnam calls, which (on Sunos 4.1.x) uses malloc to allocate space. Note - if this is not true for you system, let me know, so I can put code in to handle this. destruction spell (from scrolls) fixed. This was actually a problem in that cast_spell was not setting the owner properly. Magic mapping improved for bw systems. This actually makes it work like it used to, with it doing stippling for object. Casting of director spells changed. Placement away from characters and underneath characters now possible New potion type added - Improvement: This will raise level hit point or spell point gain to the maximum value. It starts at the lowest level (ie, first hit/spell points gained), and will raise one value to maximum. Some patches added (From Manfred Weichel, manfred.weichel@mch.sni.de) which should make compiles on SVR4 work properly. New artifacts (in lib/artifacts file) added. Configurable option: cone attacks no longer propogate through monster - it will only hit the first row. Remove curse/damnation changed so that it will not remove curses which are a higher level than the spell caster. Polymorph code changed around. Greater chance of items being destroyed, value can never be greater than twice the original value, no mininum value. Also, now the item value and not clone value is used, so things like scrolls, wands, rods, etc should have the max price work correctly. magic is not maintained, rather, magic*4 is used as the difficulty for creating the new item, with max_magic of the new item never being greater than the magic of the old item. The number of objects remaining after a polymorph will be less than the original (10 arrows might become 8 bolts, for example.) You will no longer attack players in the group you are in by running into them. Titles now restored properly from save files (only makes a different if SET_TITLE is defined When doing a save, check the return value of fclose when writing to tmp file and the final file. If either of these writes file, use the backup file instead (previous save file is renamed as a backup file.) Should prevent problems when there are full filesystems of quotas in effect. The character will not be saved, but at least an older save file exsists instead of the character being totally gone (like before.) Patch from Laurent Wacrenier <Wacren@Gin.ObsPM.Fr> Plural names for items that have a 'of' in them is fixed/added. This mostly deal with potions (so instead of potion of dexterys, you get potions of dexterity) Patch from Laurent Wacrenier <Wacren@Gin.ObsPM.Fr> query_cost changed around so that value for very low priced items are now computed correctly. Before, the nrof of items was multiplied in very late, and various divisions (for being unidentified) were done previously. For low value items, this would result in a zero value. Zero values still result for low priced items if you only have 1 or 2 of them, but if you have 80 of them, a proper value is now generated. Code to control golems (and in fact many summoned creatures) now fixed. Help file added about golems. This also fixes a core dump that was caused when a summoned creature was around, and another scroll was used. Modified logger in common directory to no longer create a fatal error if you get too many minor errors in and the editor is what is being used. Before, occasional errors would be reported by the editor (mostly dealing with not found archetypes in maps), which would eventually cause a fatal error. This seemed erratic, because the editor never changes the tick, so loading one map might result in the fatal error because of the error total from the previous maps. Also, when using the editor, having missiong archetypes probably should not be a fatal condition. food value can be changed in artifact file. Food is mostly used to have various meanings in different objects. The artifact file has also been updated about everything that is changable, and what the values mean (ie, docs are built into the top of the file as comments) Weapons/armor no longer 'disappear' when a class that can not use such an item tries to equip a group of them. That is, if a class that could not use armor tried to equip 2 chain mails, one of the chain mails would disappear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.3 to 0.91.4 FLAG_NO_FIX_PLAYER is set before saving the player, and cleared after the player is loaded. Before, a character will full sp and hp could be save, and when reload, not be at full strength. This is because fix_player was being called during the load process, before all the characters items had been loaded and equipped. This, the maxsp and maxhp values were that of the character with no items. Artifacts can now pass the various spell paths to the newly created artifact. The values are or'd with the previous spell path values of the object. The artifact file now supports objects with name NONE. If this object is rolled up when trying to generate an artifact, then no artifact is generated. This allows for better tuning the chances of having certain artifacts, by just reducing the chance of having an artifact at all. The 'type' field of the Object in the artifact field is still required, but any other fields for the artifact object are not used. Crossedit fixed so that all the images do not appeared inversed when being used on a monochrome display. Changed common/xutil.h so that XPM mode will work on monochrome systems. In fact, XPM mode should now work on all systems, previously, the load process tried to create a pixmap 8 bits deep. If the X server did not support it, errors would result. So while playing in XPM mode on monochrome may be pointless, this allows play on systems where it may have some use. libproto.h and sproto.h only check that __STDC__ is defined. Previously, __STDC__ had to be nonzero, and not all compilers set this. Also, in global.h, if __STDC__ is not defined, return an error. Many compilers do not allow _STDC__ to be redefined. Updated changable variable in crossedit. Now the various spell paths can be set in the editor. SPEED_GAME now standard compile option, and not selectable. Having it as an option seemed to create more problems than bugs non speed game found. Crossfire man page updated. xledit.man changed to crossedit.man, to reflect the name of the program it represents. crossfire.doc updated with more information - mostly about new objects added to the game. More help files. Objects with type CREATOR were added. The objects, when applied, create other objects. Documentation in crossfire.doc. Object that cast spells (rod, scrolls, wands, and horns) now have a level associated with them. This level is used to determine at what level the spell should be cast, instead of using the owners level, which was typically used before (allows creation of super powerful wands/rods/horns, but having them be a very high level.) Bow, crossbow, bolt, and arrow code redone by Tero Haatanen. This cleans up the code, and allows for magical arrows and bolts. Race can now be changed in the artifacts file. A spell of Banishment has been added. Attacktype AT_DEATH is now more potent when if against a monster that the item also has slayign capability against. Bug fixed to prevent players from getting infinite experience for finding the same trap. Also, experience changed for disarming traps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.2 to 0.91.3 Changed artifact structure so that items with a chance greater than 255 are now possible. Object now put into icecubes when hit by a cold spell, like before. This probably got messed up in the saving throw re-write, where objects had to be either immune or protected from cold to be put in icecubes. In fact, the reverse was supposed (and now does) happen. IF an object is protected/immune from cold, it is also immune from being put in an icecbub. Fixed up is_magical and need_identify routines to handle more items. Rods, scrolls, and spellbooks are always considered magical in nature. Wands and staves are magical if they still have charges. Also, fixed up so that some of the Artifact items are now detected as being magical. If player lacks sufficient money to buy from shop, it now prints how much short he is in standard english string, (ie, 2 platinum 3 gold,etc), instead of gold.silver format (lacke 44.25 gold). Inventory drawing changed. Should be a little more efficient, and be more efficient on drawing. With auto pickup modes (that pick up more than one item), inventory will be drawn after all applicable items have been picked up, instead of after each one. Item status is printed next to item image in players inventory if SHOW_INV_ICON is selected in the config.h file. It would be nice if better imagines were designed for the status (right now, just words are printed out.) When connecting to the server, a one line welcome message is printed. Crossclient was modified to ignore this line if it starts with 'Welcome', so changing it may cause problems with crossclient. Potion of restorations are now handled by means of different archetypes and treasure lists, instead of having special code in the program to handle them. If a RUNE is found in an object inventory when free_object has been called, remove the rune instead of dropping it to the ground. This is so that traps (runes) disappear when the object they are placed on is destroyed. Doors are now trapped, and be detected & searched just like chest traps. Map difficulty can now be set in the map, and not be calculated at map load time. Crossedit has been modified so that 'Attributes' now contains a difficulty field, and if set, this will be used when loading a map (it is stored in the level field of the map). If this value is 0 (default), then the old formula for calculating the difficulty will be done. The advantage of this is that map creators can now set the difficulty of the map more to their liking, and certainly do a better job than the program can do. Pickup by value density fixed. The number of items is now taken into consideration (before it did not, so a lot of arrows would be picked up, because the total value divided by the weight of 1 arrow was greater than the pickup value.) Bug fixed in query_cost. Before, for F_TRUE value, unless the item was worth more than 10,000 sp, F_SELL value would be calculated instead of the true value. Merge several small files in common.c into one file called porting.c. porting.c contains common functions that are called by crossfire. This allows system dependent code by be in one file, instead of scattered throughout the program. -listen_port <num> command line option added. num is the port to use for connections, instead of the default (13326) Instances when a variable name is the same as a structure name have been fixed (by changing the variable name). On some compilers, this is a problem. I can not be sure that all such cases have been fixed, as I have not found a way for gcc to create warnings in this situation. Random happenings when a spell fails due to encumbrance has been added. This option is configurable in the config.h file. Trap code added. Chests and doors can now be trapped. 'search' and 'disarm' commands added. old 'search' command was changed to 'search items' Inventory locking added. Makes it so that items can be locked in a players inventory, and will not be dropped when a 'dropall' command is issued. 'inv-lock' and 'inv-unlock' commands were also added. 'gsay' command added for party mode. Spellbooks can now have their slaying field set to the name of the spell that the spellbook is of. Debugging output disabled in crossedit. It produced copious amounts of data that has little relevance except for the developers. It can easy be turned back on by editing the crossedit/include/debug.h file. Artifact gems (worth lots of money) and amulets added. Invisible object now appear in crossedit. Fixes a problem, but now makes use of the global 'editor' variable, making it likely it won't be obsolete any time soon. Artifacts (in artifacts file) can now have nrof field that will be used to generated the number of items instead of the treasure list. If the nrof in the artifact is 0, then the standard treasure list nrof is used instead. Artifacts can now grant reflect missile and spell ability. Also, by setting stand_still, the objects will not be animated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.1 to 0.91.2 Some options now standard part of game (SHOP_LISTINGS, Line of Sight). The config.h (for this release) contains these options, but they are commented out with the note they no longer do anything. Changed value pickup to pick up things based on true value, and not sell value. True value is how much the item is worth without applying charisma bonuses. Before, if two different characters used the same pickup mode, different stuff could be picked up because of charisma differences (or even if a character gained charisma, the same pickup mode may not work as it did before). By using true value, pickup mode operates the same between all characters, Items of type TREASURE can now have their experience set, and this will be used for the difficulty of the generated treasure instead of the map difficulty (as was done with shops). If experience is not set, then the map difficulty will instead be used (or 14 in the case of shop floors). Cure poison actually cures it, instead of reducing the duration. Don't use fseek when loading in map files. Some systems do not support fseek on pipes (which are used for compressed files). Instead, just set the variable with the data we read, instead of seeking back and re-reading it. Transferrance spell changed so that supercharging will have bad effects (first confuses the player, then a large fireball is created (with player losing all spellpoints) Poisoning made more vicious - it does more damage based on the level of the creature that uses it (level/2 in fact). This makes it so that very tough creatures that poison someone will have the poison do serious damage. Also, damage caused is no longer random. Chests can now contain multiple items. Code changed to handle this properly. Treasure is also always dropped on the floor (Even if the chest is in an objects inventory.) hp field used in chests (and in fact all treasures) to determine how many objects to create (thus, a chest with 3 hp will have 3 objects created). Crossedit now draws a rectangle around the selected area. Reversing the color of the images did not work in XPM mode. Have client.c include "includes.h". includes.h sets up all the name defines properly (ie, __sgi__, __sun__) SP_* functions changed (by Rupert Goldie) to take an object pointer instead of a level value. This makes adjustments for spell costs (via stuff like spell paths) easier to make, because now only the SP_* functions need to be changed. With the object structure, checking for known paths (or perhaps other things in the future) can easily be done. Bombs will now be dropped before exploding. New attack type (God Power) added. The cleric cause wound spells use this attack type. Charm monster spell added. Party system re-written by Scott MacFiggen <smurf@soda.berkeley.edu>. Characters will now only share experience if on the same map, and other features were also added. Modified check_item function (used in creating weapons with the improve scrolls). The objects being sacrificed do not need to be in one group (ie, two groups of 4 potions of dex will now be counted as 8 potions). This only applies to potions, since some can be identified and others not identified. Also, cursed or damned items will not count towards sacrifice count (although, they will be consumed). Changed way cancellation works on items. Before, if cancellation hit a player and the player failed the saving throws, the items got no saving throw versus cancellation (only if their absolute magic value was less than RANDOM()%6 did they survive). Now each item gets a saving throw. Note that if a container makes a saving throw, then the items inside do not need to make saving throws and are unaffected. A separate function did_make_save_item was split off from save_throw_object. did_make_save_item justs checks to see if the item made its saving throw based on the tables (and any protections or immunities grants it an automatic save, as before) save_throw_item calls this function, and in addition, does the appropriate actions (burns up items, turns them into icecubes, calls cancellation, etc.) Saving throw method changed. Before, each item got 5 chances to make a save for each item it is composed of. Now, it gets one chance for material it is composed of. Then, based on the number of saves it made, and the number materials it is composed of, an overall made save/failed save is determined. This change is to make it easier to figure out saving throw values, and hopefully make adjustment easier. Saving throw tables updated. In general, each item is +5 compared to what it was before. This should hopefully make it so that items have about the same success rate they did before. Crossedit modified to preserve value of connected field when cut/copying and pasting. Before, an object that was copied/cut would also have its connected field reset to 0. More XPM images colored. Filenames for the river directory have been re-done, to actually make it a bit clearer of what does what. The archetype names were not renamed however, to keep compatibility. World expanded. Another row of maps was added to the southern edge. The world maps were also renamed to a world_xy format, where x is a letter and y is a number. This represents the x and y location of the map, making it easier to figure out how maps related to each other. Map spaces can prevent magic user spells, cleric spells, or both. Before, an anti magic square prevented all types of spell casting. Have monsters regenerate spell points even if they don't cast a spell. Monsters have a 1:3 chance of casting spells, irregardless of any other factors. Before, spellpoints would only be regenerated if it got past this check. Also, some monsters (dragons, chinese dragons) have had their max spellpoint and regeneration rates increased to correspond with the higher cost of casting their breath weapons. Altars now will also match on the slaying field of the object being sacrificed. This is similar to how keys and special doors work. With this change, it is no longer required to make a unique item that then needs to be sacrificed (ie, the dagger, the cup, and the crown for the old city quests). Instead, a cup, and crown can be used, with the slaying field set appropriately (unfortunately, will not work for weapons, as it will think that is the monster to do extra damage against.) However, the altar code always did match item name, so calling it something special like 'The Dagger' and have the sacrifice look for that should also work. Spell encumbrance code added. More you are carrying the higher your chance for failure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.91.0 to 0.91.1: Fixed bug in the enchant weapon code. It was not allocing enough space for the string, and thus would corrupt the heap. Minor fix to spells.c. IT was using strdup instead of strdup_local, which caused the compile to fail on some machines. No longer gets errors when adding a player on a map that is not loaded in a multi player game. Before, process_events would see that the player has no object, and could get enough errors to cause the game to quit. Now, it suppresses errors if it is only loading objects for that map. Default map difficult for treasure that is created in shops was changed from 9 to 5. In this way, the likelihood is higher that good items will be found in dungeons, not in the shops (there are very few items with difficulty above 9) Archetypes cleaned up. All archetypes that were not being used in a map were moved to dev/unused/0.91.1. Note: There are still a few archetypes that are not used in any maps, but these are part of a collection (ie, one section type of a wall). This was done really because there is no reason to have archetypes that are not being used to be in the official distribution. It could be misleading for people looking through the arch directory (ie, 'I thought I looked at all the maps, but never saw this monster'). Also, I have no problem moving these archetypes back in, once some maps actually use them. 'grass' and 'sea' are no longer animated. There are a few reasons for this: 1) The animations never really were that interesting, 2) being animated put them on the speed list, and being that over all, they are the second and third most used objects, this is a performance hit, and 3) With pixmap and xpm images, re-draws are only done on squared the have changed (really improves performance). However, with them being animated, they often changed, so that more re-draws were needed. The old archetype and image files are in dev/old (in arch distribution) if you actually want to use the animated versions. Put a limit of 70 on damage bonus for weapons. Treasure lists expanded. The old treasure lists (in treasure.c) have been removed, and treasure lists added to the treasures file added to take their place. The treasure file has been expanded have list transitions, and treasure lists in which 1 object on that list will be generated. Archetypes (shop, random, and chest) updated to use the randomitems field to determine what treasure list to use to generate the items. Advantages of the new method: Ability to better tune treasure probabilities, re-compiling not necessary in order to update treasures. the create_treasure function was modified to add an extra argument - this is used to keep track of how many times it has been called on this attempt to create a treasure. In this way, infinite loops (with list transitions) are avoided. Generate treasure replaced with a simpler function that calls create_treasure, and returns the object. create_treasure takes a treasurelist instead of a integer treasurelist number, like it did before. The crossfire.doc file has been updated about the new treasures file capabilities. Chests are now created with their treasure as their inventory (this mostly happened because of the treasure changes above). Advantage is that when a chest burns up, its treasure may remain (or may be burned up). Before, when a chest was burned up, its treasure inside was not created. Rolling multi-part objects should now work better (not perfect, however). Carrying an open bag with a mode that picks everything up will no longer cause an infinite loop. Crossedit changed to draw selected areas as a black box. Fixes some problems with display in XPM mode. Fixed bug that would cause game to crash when pets were summoned. Problem was an infinite recursive loop, that would then cause the system to run out of stack space. Solution is to decrease the speed_left of the object before one of the function calls. This makes it so that at some point, one of the functions will not be called. When a rune is cast, use the s->archname for the archetype name, and not hard coded strings. Cured a bug with rune of transference. Also, allowed several case statements to be merged. Really, no archetype names should be used in spells.c, when casting spells. The archetype name should be gotten from the spell structure. If a button is being updated on a map that is being saved, just return from the function. Prevents errors 'object has speed but is free' Fixed bug that caused objects that got a speed_left of exactly 0 to be frozen. This was because speed_left >0 to have the object be processed, and <0 to have speed added. Now, speed is added if speed_left <=0. Some minor changes made to hopefully make it compile on AIX systems without any modifications. process_active_maps now called when a map is being loaded. It should hopefully work properly, since enter_exit was modified to not use any static variables. Also, process_events was modified to take a map as an argument, and if non null, only update objects on that map. That makes process_map obsolete. process_active_maps was also changed to still process even if there is only one player. Crossfire should let players still perform actions when a map is being saved. Problem is, handling a map that is in the process of it being saved, and having a character enter it. Crossfire needs to finish saving that map, then re-load it and insert the character. Large changes to how player interact with loading & saving of maps would probably be needed, and probably should be done. You no longer lose luck if you kill yourself, and the player who kills another player now loses the luck (before, the player killed would lose luck). Now inventory display modes - unpaid, cursed, magical, nonmagical. All pretty self explanatory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.90.5 to 0.91.0: Some new maps added to the standard distribution (Magara and some of the esben maps). Magara was added as a place to depart to by ship, the esben maps were merged in as new buildings or towers on existing maps, not as a new continent. Keyboard buffering is now selectable via 'keyboard' command. Before, an attempt to remove keystrokes from the X Events queue was made, but could not always remove all of them. Now, it should remove all of them, or none of them, depending on the keyboard buffer setting. The value will be saved with the player. Pickup mode value now saved and restored from the characters save files. Inventory and look window should only be re-drawn once when selling an item. Calls to draw_stats in common/living.c will only be made if the object type is a player (should prevent some warning messages) Fixed create earth wall spell so that it uses bdur as the base hit points of the wall (instead of bdam). This will prevent some core dumps, because otherwise, the wall can have 0 hit points. Program should not core dump when person quits that game and the map he is on has been swapped out. (ie, person saves or quits the character, but the map gets swapped out before they type 'q' to the play again question) Word activated teleporter code added (Peter Mardahl). Who can become DM, based on their user id, can now be set in the dm_file (assumed to be in lib.) (Tyler Van Gorder) Tell should now work properly (Eric Mehlhaff) Cloak code added (Peter Mardahl) Objects can not grant invisibility, make_invisible variable added to archetype files. Added information to the crossfire.doc file (was missing several attack types and materials). Added better information on what some of the flags do. Noticed that will_apply 4 applied for both scrolls and earthwalls, now only applies to earthwalls. To have a monster use scrolls, can_use_scroll should be used instead. Code added to deny users or sites from connecting. This is to prevent users who intentionally crash the server to connect and start up a window, which they then crash the server with. Patches from Tyler Van Gorder. Two floors will can now be drawn when using XPM mode and this options has been selected in config.h This allows for towers to sit on top of grass to look proper. From Gregor Schmid <schmid@fb3-s7.math.tu-berlin.de> Patches that modified 'create food' spell. Better food (ie, waybread) will be created at higher levels, and the caster can also specify what type of food to be created. From Peter Mardahl. Spell paths added by Rupert G. Goldie <rgg@aaii.oz.au>. Simply put, each 'spell path' contains a certain category of spells. Objects and races can be attuned, repelled, or denied certain paths (objects would apply the the person wearing them). Attuned allows casting of spells in that path at lower cost and greater efficiency, repelled paths are cast at a higher cost and lower efficiency, and denied paths can not be cast at all. Thus, a wand of small fireball that is attuned to Fire would cast more powerful fireballs. A character wearing a ring that is denied the path of fire could not cast fire spells at all. Right now, no items will be created using these features, and no characters have any of these, but these might be added in the future. Look at the spell-paths file in the doc directory for a little more information. Pickup mode 6 (pick up magical items) will not pick up known cursed items. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Object structure and process_events changed. Now, a separate list us used to keep track of active objects (objects whose speed is nonzero). All objects on the active list are still on the normal list, but process_objects only needs to go through the active_list for objects to process, saving a lot of time. The cost is adding two pointers (active_next and active_prev) to each objects. But the speed gains are well worth the minor memory cost. the 'malloc command was changed to display the number of objects on the active list - note that there is zero memory usage for these, since these objects are also on the normal object list. Programming note: Any time an objects speed is changed (doesn't happen too often), a call to update_ob_speed(object *) must be made, so that the object can be added or removed from the active list, as appropriate. In testing, I first ran crossfire, with process events using the normal object list, and printing out error messages if it found objects that had speed but were not in the active_list. I cleared out a couple warehouses in Navar without any errors. Then, I switched to using the active_list, and printing out errors if it found objects on that list with zero speed. I cleared out the mages tower in Navar city without any errors. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Selling items now works properly (it only failed to work if AUTO_SAVE was not set previously, and the value of the item was beyond a certain amount.) Look window code changed so that it does not erase the unused area unless necessary. Also, when a player moves, freeze_look is set. This was changed because the functions that move_ob calls update the look window, and the window was being updated 3 times each time the player moved. When poisoning ends, it no longer core dumps. Inventory window updated if reading an unidentified spell book and you already know that spell. Casting rune spells now works properly. Spells now (once again) sorted upon loading of characters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.90.4 to 0.90.5: Bug fixed with window titles getting their names changed. (Tero Haatanen) Container code changed around. Containers can be locked, they can be used from the ground. FLAG_CONTAINER removed, since there is already a type container, and bonus removed from object structure (Tero Haatanen) insert_ob_in_ob sorts objects, so items with more magic are before those with no magic bonuses even for unidentified. It also uses the absolute value of the magic, so it should be a little more difficult to know if the item is cursed or not. Added unique-flag and UNIQUE_ITEMS define. All items which have unique flag are saved to directory .../lib/unique-items. A filename is mapname + ".v" + number, where number is normally 01, but if two or more server is running same time it can be also greater. This feature can be used to banks and inns to save permanently items. The code is one limitation: if map contains unique item which can be carried away from map (e.g. an unique excalibur) there must be at least one unique item on map which can't be carried away. This is because unique items are loaded from original map only if unique items file doesn't exit. If all unique items are carried away from map then they are loaded back next time when someone enters that map. This should not a problem if map makers remembers this. (Tero Haatanen) Editor by Jarkko Sonninen. He added toggle button into attribute window and made map's reset time and timeout so that they can be configured in maps. He also fixed map archetype, so that map default stating coordinate is (2,2) like before. This seems break a gatehouse map, where it use default value on map (changed 0 to 2), but it's easy to fix. Change check_walk_on (common/object.c) so it no longer calls the draw_func. This eliminates a problem of seeing flashes of areas that should be blocked. This is because the draw function it called would re-draw the game window before the variable to re-calculate line of set was set. As I see it, this function call was not needed in any case, because this is called during the players movement. After the player moves, the draw function is called from the process_events (now process_players1) function. This should also conserver a little cpu time, and bandwidth. Coin code in shop.c changed. Patch from Kjetil Torgrim Homme made it so that coin value can be changed in archetypes and the shop code should still work properly. I made changes so that the number of coin types is set with a #define, making adding new coin types easier. AUTOSAVE, SAVE_INTERVAL, and NO_EMERGENCY_SAVE should now work properly. See include/config.h for more information on these options. Changed it so that updates to other maps will not be performed while loading a map. This caused a bug if two players entered exits at the same time. One or both of the players may end up in incorrect locations, all exits in that location may be closed, etc. Saving throw table expanded to handle all materials and attack types (Peter Mardahl) Fixes so that Turn Undead does not do physical damage (Peter Mardahl) Patch to make it impossible to prepare multiple weapons at the same time (Peter Mardahl) Added 'sea1' archetype. This is the same as the sea archetype, but allows for walk on. Its purpose is to use for backgrounds behind boats and similar objects. Because it will probably be needed in so many places, I decided to make an archetype, instead of editing the variables inside crossedit for the object. Removed xbm_values array. This was used to map a face number to that face location in memory. Since the bmaps file is created automatically without any holes, this is not longer necessary. Archetype for wonder spell now in place. This will prevent core dumps when the spell is cast. Pixmaps will now be freed upon exiting Crossfire. They will also be freed after emergency saves are performed. This fixes the problem that some X-Terminals would not free the memory used the the pixmaps otherwise, and run out of memory. This fix pertains to both -pix and -xpm mode. Patch to hopefully double death problem/core dumps with NOT_PERMADEATH mode. Changed the size of the temporary string that is used when loading messages. For a few very long messages, 1024 bytes was not enought. Patches put in Crossedit to allow for XPM mode. From Petri Heinil. Cleaned up the code for look window. Now, everything agrees (ie, when you click on something in the look window, it is actually that object.) Likewise, invisible objects are not displayed anywhere. This should also fix a bug of not being able to enter some building by clicking the middle mouse button on them. Added help file for pickup. Explains the 8 basic pickup modes plus the value-density pickup mode. Detect magic will detect magic on all items in a stack, not just the top object. Spells fixes (From Peter Mardahl): 1) Identify modified to identify items on the ground if inventory is identified. 2) Detect magic spell finds magical runes and makes them more visible 3) AT_CHAOS and AT_COUNTERSPELL reimplemented so that they are not treated as special cases by the move_cone function 4) Magical walls created by spells (firewall, frostwall, ....) are fixed If a map is reset, that map is then removed from the list of map objects (what you see when you type 'maps ). This way, the 'maps commands only displays maps that are reasonably active. This change should also save a little memory. make depend now descends into crossedit/Cnv to depend there. Changed some of the colors in the xutil.c file. This is so that it uses the same colors as the official colors for XPM files. It would have been better to make those colors part of the official XPM colors to start with, but it is a bit late to do that now. The change of the xutil.c file was made so that crossfire would not use quite as many entries in the colormap. The change in colors should be quite minor. Two new pickup modes added - one picks up all money and gems, the other all magical items. Removed a lot of dead code from the various header files. removed hiscore.h from distribution (wasn't declaring anything that was not being declared elsewhere.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.90.3 to 0.90.4: Many more XPM images now properly colored. NOTE TO COLORERS: A few minor changes have been to the xpm.template file (palegreen has been replaced with green3, and a more medium orange has been added.) I replaced palegreen because it was very close to the 'green' color already present. And a medium green was lacking. A medium orange was also lacking, so I added one in. New pickup modes, that can be based on value density (from Peter Mardahl <peterm@soda.berkeley.edu>) Spells now have a casting time. (From Matthew Zeher <matt@cs.odu.edu>) Added libproto1.h file. This will be used for function prototypes are affected by certain settings (ie, SPEED_GAME). This way, people should not need to run 'make proto' New XPM loading method. Creates montage of the xpm files, so that not as many calls to XPM are needed. This has reduced loading time to about 30% of what it was before. Note: This done mean it takes some more memory at start up, as the montage has to be stored temporarily. Changed charisma bonuses. At 30 charisma, it will no longer be possible to buy an item, and then sell it for more than you bought it for. Graphic exposures turned off on the GC's that are used in the game window. Should improve performance. When a raise stat spell ends, the proper message (ie, You look ugly, you feel less intelligent, etc) will now be printed out. If player NOT_PERMADEATH mode, and you die, a stat will only be decreased one. Before, that stat was decreased one, and the max stat was set to that value. So if the player was poisoned, or a stat was lowered due to some other reason, that loss would become permanent. Now, both the stat and orig_stat only gets decreased by one. invoke.c removed, cast_spell modified to handle what invoke.c did. Keep old shoot type if reading a scroll, instead of it being set to none. Raise stats spells should be progressively more costly (From Peter Mardahl) Should now be able to handle broken pipes without problem (ie, telnet session closing unexpectedly). Made it so that listen level 0 on a socket means that draw_all_sockets will not write to that socket. Crossclient uses this so that it does not get unexpected messages, and thinks that it failed. Added 'set font' option. This basically unsets color pixmaps or xpm mode. If crossclient was run without -xpm or -pix mode, it will send this command to use fonts. What this means is that set (font,pix,xpm) should set that display mode. Before, the display selection it defaulted to for crossclient seemed unreliable at best. Fixed memory allocation problem in commands.c (it was writing to more bytes than it had allocated) Draw message window almost complete re-written. In an effort to cut down on flashing of the the status bars. ( Niilo Neuvo <anipa@guru.magic.fi>) More bug fixes for spells (from Peter Mardahl) Fixed some bugs for compiling on the Alpha running OSF/1 1.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from Crossfire 0.90.2 to 0.90.3: Added -xpm command line option to crossclient. All spells should not be handled in the switch statement in spells.c Let players buy zero value items from shop. This really shouldn't be a problem, the only zero value items of any use might be wands with very few charges. If someone wants to buy poison or cursed items, they should be able to. Fix spelling error of command line argument 'detatch'. It is now spelled properly (detach). Change draw_color_pix in server/xio.c. It now draws the images to an intermediate pixmap, and then draws that to the screen. May or may not be quicker (XSetClipOrigin only needs to be set once), but it does prevent flicker. Also add two more GC's to the player struct, to make these operations faster. Unless XPM_PIX is defined, draw_color_pix will note be compiled in the code. Fixes to make it compile on both Solaris and NeXT machines (hopefully) Removed PLAYER_COLOR #ifdefs and lines they control out of login.c. Those were not needed any more. Added 'mapinfo' command to valid input commands. Only have crossfire display -m as a valid command if it was compiled with DUMP_SWITCHES set. Changed install procedure to only copy those files necessary to playing into lib. Also, don't install obsolete scripts into the bin directory when installing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes from Crossfire 0.90.1 to 0.90.2: Cleaned up the display from 'maps. Now things line up nicely. It doesn't print the name anymore, and truncates the path at 18 characters. But this doesn't make a difference for most maps, and now you can actually see what variables are set to what. Experience requirements changed. Initial values from Peter, but I changed them to be more round numbers. Change targets in server and crossclient from ComplexProgramTarget to AllTarget, DependTarget, and NormalProgramTarget. This is because ComplexProgramTarget expects man pages in those directories, which do not exist. Moved data initialization out of treasure.h and into common/treasure.h. In theory, no data initialization should be done in the .h files, it should all be done in the .c files, with the .h files declaring the appropriate externs. Likewise, no .c files should have extern's for other data functions, they should include the appropriate .h file to get those externs declared. This would fix the problem of having to go through the various .c files whenever one of the data structures change, to update all the externs made to it. Since the compiler will check to make sure that the extern in the .h file and the actual declaration in the .c file are the same, it prevents errors of mismatched declarations (ie, having something like char s[40][20], which at later point gets to char *s[40], but some files still think it is supposed to be s[40][20].) Changed doc/Imakefile so that make install.man will actually install the man pages. Characters that dies who were poisoned should have the poisoning removed. Changes from the Berkeley Folks: What we've done that's in this server code that I know of: --level dependency added to many spells. --level dependency tunable on the fly by editing the spell_params in the 'lib' dir and using the dm command 'spellreset' spellpoints and spell level are also changeable on the fly. --many new spells added --protection spells can now superimpose, as can gain stat spells. repeated applications of protective or stat spells yield diminishing returns. --runes added--an implementation of magical traps. any spell may go in a rune. Read the documentation. --new spell interface. invoke <spell> invokes that spell immediately. Some spells can take parameters now. invoke magic rune <spell> will store <spell> in a magic rune. invoke <spell> will not set the range spell. cast and prepare are synonymous. --Certain spells cannot be set as range spells now--less than 10 of these. These are spells which no one would want to use more than once in a while, like magic map. --A hack to object.c in common dir which makes objects created by objects with owners owned by the creating object's owner. (This allows players to get credit for a kill with the meteor swarm spell, which creates a 'swarm' object, which in turn creates the meteor objects.) -- End of Berkeley additions. New maps and archetypes added. Crossedit can now load maps that are compressed. Add Solaris 2.x compile support. Now prints out what the scroll name was that turned to dust. Minor artifact changes (ring of ice is blue, ring of fire is red) Horn range weapon now works properly, via using the + and - keys. New input method (From Jari Vanhala <jam@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>). Looks like it should now be possible to define keys to do most every command. Made a few minor changes to default key file to make the present set up act like the previous one. Fixed triggers and magic mouth. These devices will now open gates as would be expected. The problem was that the opening routine expects to see the op->value of these to be one, in order to open the gate or whatever. Changed routines to toggle value between 0 and 1. Note: As I understand, trigger handles return to their original state, but keep the same value. That is, you pull the trigger handle, the handle returns to its original position, but gate opens. Pull handle again, handle returns to same position, but gate now closes. Or at least that is how I implemented the devices. Make some more changes to the is_magical routine. Hopefully, it will now detect all rings and amulets that are magical. Also, it should not detect monsters (or any living object) as magical. Fixed bug with Color Pixmaps (XPM). Would try to free the pl->pixmaps area twice, causing core dump. Looks like the same thing should have happened when using bitmaps also. In any case, only one free(pl->pixmaps) is now performed. Bug fixed with XPM code, in which 'floors' would appear to be carried around with the player. This is because the players pixmap did not change, and hence, it did not update that square. Now fixed. Random encounter bug might now be fixed (patches from Frank) New FLAG method used. flags in the object structure is now an array, and SET_FLAG, CLEAR_FLAG and QUERY_FLAG functions are now used. This reduced a lot of code in common/loader.c Fixed bug in common/object.c in expand_objects function. Looks like braces were missing from for statement, so the the prev and flag fields of the new objects were not being set properly. Fixed bug that could cause core dump if trying to print map message when no message existed. (From Tero Haatanen <Tero.Haatanen@lut.fi>) Starting character will have uncursed, undamned and identified items at the start of the game. (From Tero Haatanen <Tero.Haatanen@lut.fi>) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes from Crossfire 0.90.0 to 0.90.1: Crossedit 0.7 was merged in with the 0.90.0 source. This once again creates a common distribution. I tried to retain the best features of both programs. This means that the artifact code, and cursed/uncursed items (from CF 0.90.0) remain. But I also used the filepaths for fonts, elimination of omaps for internals use, and creation of partially processed bitmap file for bitmap reading. The general patch method was to keep the cf 0.90.0, and create a diff file for crossedit 0.7 from crossfire 0.89.3. These patches were then applied. Many had to be implemented by hand. There are some exceptions. The crossedit program is almost the exact same thing as in the crossedit 0.7 distribution. I made a few minor changes to clean up compiling, but otherwise, no serious changes were made. The archetypes (lib/arch) structure was also taken from crossedit 0.7, as well as most of the archetypes themselves. I think the breakdown makes things much easier to handle for changes or improvements. NOTE: it is likely that directory (lib/arch) will not be in the standard distribution, but will instead be a separate file (to keep the size down). The various files (archetypes, bmaps, font, etc.) will be created for the distribution. All new archetypes from cf 0.90.0 were merged into the structure, as well as a few minor changes in the old archetypes I noticed. The maps are from the crossfire 0.90.0-a-maps distribution. A few simple programs (in lib/adm) were used convert them to use fontpaths and to change some monster names that conflicted with character classes. Note: Because in the old format, a 'food' field was used to determine the map to link to, it is possible some of these fields were changed when they were not supposed to be. This is because some other archetypes (altars for one) also use the food field. If you notice any converted by mistake, please let me know. A few minor memory leaks and other patches have also been applied. Other specific changes to this version: 'set' now gives better help message (like what can be set.) XPM code added. Fixed bug in 'who', which would cause a core dump if done when another playing was still creating their character. 'who' also display the map path of the other players, and not the map name. Map names seldom seem to be set. The crossfire.cfb and crossfire.pix files (in lib) can be compressed. Fixed bug that caused core dumps when pet monsters were summoned. If restoring a saved game, and the map it was saved on does not exist, start them on the standard starting level. Added option in config.h, that allows full ring and amulet descriptions to be printed in inventory and look window. Hopefully fixed bug which caused game to dump core when player died, if NOT_PERMADEATH was set on. Add flag HAS_MAGIC, and use that for the detect magic spell. This way, artifacts that have no magic, will still be shown as magical. So will rings that change abilities, etc. Doesn't work quite perfectly, but seems to work as well as the old method. Fixed bug so that if it can not find a map, it just prints that that exit is closed, instead of panicing. Have it re-draw the look window when you middle click on something (ie apply) in that window. This fixes a bug with bags/sacks, of it not updating when an item is used directly from a sack. Mark Wedel (mwedel@pyramid.com)