[Exult-general] Guardian Mesages (was Re: Death and Resurrection)

[PATRICK B. <p1....@st...>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jeff Freedman wrote:

[snip lots of bugs fixed (cool!)]
> When the Guardian talks to you during sleep, his face and text appear correctly
> on the screen (though he really should talk; haven't figured out the usecode
> function for this yet).

Function 0614H is the one that is called to place the Guardians Text
on screen. It takes one argument, and the function is more-or-less a
giant switch statement.

<3 hours later after re-writing a pile of code>

The first few lines of Func0614:

    SwitchTalkTo(65259, 0)
    var0000=IFunc0069();
    if(var0000!=1)
      goto label0614_0027;
        /*001b 1c 00 00<>*/
        /*001e 33<>*/
    HideNPC(65259)
    exit2

1c and 33 are addsi (add string to string reg) and say (display string
reg on string), currently uncoded (still working out how to implement
the string reg on them).

According to ucdump.cc:
  /* Function 0x69 - GetSpeechTrack()
    Returns a speech track number previously set by SetSpeech()
  */
  /* Function 0x75 - SetSpeech(speech_number)
    Remembers a speech track number, returns false if speech effects
are disabled
    or no sound card
  */
  /* Function 0x7e - PlaySpeech()
    Plays a speech track set by SetSpeech()
  */
... whether the're correct or not is unknown.


If someone wants to go digging, here's a function trace:

                                 614
                             -----^-----
                             940     941
------------------------------^-     -^-
2d9 622 63a 6d7 6d8 6d9 82e 608      608
        -^-             -^-----
        633             6d6 3d5
        -^-
        8fa
  -------^-------
  927 928 152 812
          -^- -^-----
          6b3 348 634
              -^-
              124

The ^'s are showing that the function number below it calls the
function number above it.


> Bodies for dead monsters are somewhat more correct now.  I gave up looking for
> an algorithm, and am just putting them in by hand.  (Probably around the time
> I'm done, CoderInfidel will have figured out the pattern/data.)  If you want to
> add to the list or fix anything, look in bodies.cc.  It's just a list of
> triples:  (liveshape, deadshape, deadframe).

Done by usecode? Given the other junk stored in this file (the entire
contents of every book, all the signposts, I wouldn't be surprised to
fund an entire copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica tomorrow), it's
possible.

Oh, well, back to code, :)

Patrick

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