- When a zone boots, it will spawn an invisible npc by the name of zone_controller
- Lua and Perl scripts can be represented with this npc as zone_controller.pl/lua
- This NPC's ID is ruled be define ZONE_CONTROLLER_NPC_ID 10
- Two EVENT's uniquely are handled with this NPC/controller (They only work with the zone_controller NPC)
- EVENT_SPAWN_ZONE :: All NPC spawns in the zone trigger the controller and pass the following variables:
$spawned_entity_id
$spawned_npc_id
- EVENT_DEATH_ZONE :: All NPC deaths in the zone trigger the controller event and pass the following variables:
$killer_id
$killer_damage
$killer_spell
$killer_skill
$killed_npc_id
various situations.
First, the set function for mob _appearance optimized sending a message
if the new appearance was equal to the old. This cann't be done, as
the 1st time the zone runs there is no client when the set function is
called. If we're combining set/send, as we are, better to always do both. This fixes several of the cases.
Repop also did not work, as no code was being called reliably to set
appearance and update the client based on code path and various flags. This is also fixed.
when the spawn vie gm command or normally with loot tables that equip.
Refined previous changes that fixed the issue with zoning in and not seeing
previosuly spawned armor by sharing the same module.
and NPCs wearing gear in non-weapon slots.
The illusion thing: Not sure why, but te opcode for BulkZoneSpawn doesn't
display the tree/object illusions. I did notice that even OP_Illusion gets
rejected by the client if sent before Client_Ready. Maybe that is why. The
BULKSpawns cannot be sent that late, I tried moving it in the sequence but
it never did the illusions correctly, at any point. So, we new new the
single spawn OP code for PCs with those illusions. This works.
The NPC gear thing. Same story with BulkZoneSpawn, Not sure why. The data
is sent correctly. So now we update the client zoning in (only them) with
what the NPCs are wearing. Every othe client already is up to date.
