#236 Necromancer's staff

[Anonymous]

The attached file contains code as well as an image for a necromancer's staff.

This staff empowers its owner to awake dead creatures and make them fight under his control.

- wizard_staff.png is the staff's image. It belongs to data/sprites/items/club/

- clubs.xml_patch.txt contains the (Eclipse-)patch for the staff's entry in the... well, clubs.xml

- EntityMap_patch.txt patches EntityMap.java to register the staff as a UsableItem. This is needed to add the "Use"-option to the items context menu. (it is a bit hacky as UsableItem.class extends StackableItem.class but there is no other option yet and it works fine)

- NecroStaff.java contains the whole process of summoning. First it randomly picks an undead creature up to a given level,then it looks for corpses within the staff's range. The first found corpse is replaced by the picked monster (that means: remove the corpse, create the monster^^). Finally the owner loses HP depending on the summoned creature's level. If there are no corpses in range the player only gets a message to step closer to one. The file belongs to src/games/stendhal/server/entity/item/

Please review NecroStaff.java carefully as i haven't coded in Java before.
Also some values have to be adjusted to make sure the staff is neither over- nor underpowered:

- the max. level of summoned undeads (i've set it to 26 to have several monsters that can be summoned)

- the staff's range (atm it's squaredistance 16)

- the amount of hp the owner loses (equal to the summoned creatures level atm)

tigertoes and i are thinking of a quest to obtain the stuff. Suggestions are always welcome.

gummipferd

[Nobody/Anonymous]

code and image for a necromancers staff

[Katie Russell]

ok. eclipse should be able to create a patch for the whole set of changes from the root directory of the stendhal project, which saves you and the patcher a lot of work. but this is ok for now

[Katie Russell]

Ok, great. I'll put constants in instead of hardcoded numbers for those values you say might need adjusting.

[Katie Russell]

Thanks for the patch.
It has been applied to cvs trunk.