Creatures, Attack Types and Attacks

How to assign an existing brain (NPC Type) to a monster:

• select one or more of the Available NPC Types, for example:
  • Master NPC + On Sight Fighter
• set it in sc_npc_definitions table.

How to create a new brain (NPC Type) and set specific behaviours:

• Add new entry in sc_npctypes table
• Example: RangedIce
• Parent: OnSightRanged

<behavior name="InitRangedIce" completion_decay="-1" initial="1000" resume="yes" >
<set_buffer buffer="KFactor"           value="1.0" />
<set_buffer buffer="AttackMelee"      value="default" /> 
<set_buffer buffer="AttackRanged"      value="Ice Ranged Attack" /> 
</behavior>

• it's defining AttackRanged to use a special attack called "Ice Ranged Attack"

How to set the attack range:

• set melee_range in the npc type (brain) behaviour
  • melee: melee_range="4"
  • ranged: melee_range="10"
    

Created a new entry in attacks table for "Ice Ranged Attack" where we set:

• attacks.damage = points to a mathscript (example "Calculate Damage") . This determines the result of the attack, like missed, blocked, hit, and calculates the final damage.
• attacks.range = maximum range of the attack, usually is set to the weapon range + 1 meter
• attacks.delay = decides how long it takes to execute an attack.
• attacks.outcome = progression script , executed ONLY if we got an hit from attacks.damage script. May contain additional damage, and visual/sound effect

If you want the vfx/sound effect to play anyway, even on a miss, then add:

• NaturalRanged = 1;

in the attacks.damage script. This will be checked by the code and the outcome will be called anyway.

How to set the visual effect:

• it's inside the progression script : attacks.outcome field