Grimrock

I've basically redone storm spells, to include spells per element, and SPOILER, SPOILER, and END-GAME-SPOILER... But Meteor Storm insists on running the vanilla version (at least that's what I think it's doing). Can I make it so that that rune combination reroutes to my version (so I can scale damag...

I don't see pierce or protection in that code.
So that's calculated before it gets this far?

OK so TRANSLATION: umod covers a LOT of this and I should take a serious look?

I've been hesitant to use other people's code because I WANT to "develop" the chops myself.
But a big part of doing programming as more than a hobby IS proper use of preexisting code, n'est-ce pas?

What does Champion:damage() actually do? It accepts damage type, but doesn't know about the attack's "pierce" rating, so how can it do anything but raw damage, in which case why does it take damage type in the first place (unless it's sound or something superficial)? Basically I'm redoing ...

OK I had missed the "move_forward" animation event for those attacks. Works a bit too well now! (Mr. McBossLord needs a nerf). Helpful to know that the monster turns at the start of the turn attack. Maybe I'll just redo the animations to end facing forward, snd setPosition() with the new f...

I am trying to do custom turn attacks and move attacks. Points of failure? Turning, moving, and, well, attacking... So, how can I make these actions: - Move or turn the attacker? - Land the attack in the right tile? I copied some things in moveAttack from the turtle, hoping that having a MonsterMove...

There is a limit, of somewhere around 60 bones.
Could be 64. Or possibly 500 or 512 animation channels.

I haven't tested it enough to find the exact number, but the boss that started all this works and looks decent with 58.

Now time to fit him dramatically into the mod!

OK cool. I'd need to decide where to split it to not look disjointed. I'm also working on a version of the same monster with the same number of end-result bones as Lindworm to be safe. The animations are not disappointing like I thought they would be. But I have not tested that version in game yet. ...

On further testing, exporting with no material works. The mesh is invisible, but the shadow animates. Adding a material (even a known good vanilla one) crashes. And having the monster catch on fire with an invisible material also crashes. I hope that raises a "That could be <known issue>" ...

Okay here's a blend. Looks like garbage to hide spoilers. There's also a monster def, but there's nothing in that to be the issue (it's copied and renamed from a vanilla monster, with all actions using the same animation for testing). https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R3UCTBJqPA-n2_Bk9gRe84iy9...