[Adonthell-devel] Re: Character implementation (on_message examples)

[Kai Sterker]

On 6/18/06, Kai Sterker <address@hidden> wrote:

When I wrote this, no examples out of the ordinary came to my mind,
but only a few minutes later I received inspiration ;-).

> We might also have a callback related to the 'ether', on_message which
> could be used as a standard way for characters to 'communicate'. It
> would be triggered when being in range of the character issuing the
> message (i.e shouting for help when being attacked). The default
> implementation could cover 'standard' messages like "Defend me",
> "Thief!" and some such, but certain characters could react to special
> messages too.

A character like Orloth Redwyne might respond to messages like "Food!"
or "More Ale", a sheep dog to stuff like "Come!" or "Stay!". Also,
party members could be controlled with this mechanism and beasts or
creatures could coordinate their attacks by having a 'leader' issue
commands to otherwise stupid minions (so that taking out the leader
will leave them pretty disoriented).

Anyway, I guess it might be a nice event driven mechanism to have NPCs
and creatures interact more than they would if only controlled by
independent schedule scripts.

Kai