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banzaikitten
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is it posible ?
i would like to add a uber boss like the dragons's that spawm every 20 minutes on some area's
i only am able to pimp some litle dragons, but that is no chalange.
i would like to add a uber boss like the dragons's that spawm every 20 minutes on some area's
i only am able to pimp some litle dragons, but that is no chalange.
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Short answer: Every boss, especially dragons are custom designed, shaped (size), animated, scripted for their particular Lair arena. Thus they cannot work in any old map someone decides to create.
It would also be great if they gave us some actual timers... so that we don't have to blow encounters to simulate them.
or some pimpy stuff to mod it self.
@angry, thnxs..
Copy all the "Solo" (7 health bars) creatures, make them single encounters and give them 15 health bars.
Done.
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THIS!
And timers (or Appear When -> Sound/Animation ends [or flag Sound/Animation for Component Complete when they are done!])
According to "some developer spirals999 queried" creating an event when Sound Complete is "very difficult" -- even though their audio sound engine actually has an "audio complete" event that is built in.
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Which is exactly why I investigated/looked-up/verified that the audio engine they are using (FMOD) indeed has a sound completion callback.
From the FMOD API channel control callback documentation:
Values
Called when a sound ends.
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You're thinking client side though. As far as I can tell the server relays data to the client to visually/audibly represent it. The client only sends to the server the user inputs in which the server processes to send a command back to the client a command to trigger and animation, change in position, what graphic to display, etc, then repeat. If the client was able to make decisions for the server to do something like this, it would open a gateway for exploits. Imagine if something like this was used to shut off events via hacking it to give it a false command that an event is complete therefore the event should end.
Seeing if a sound event ended at the client from the server side it would have to estimate when the event is run client side and what time it is expected to end, which is not an easy thing to do considering all the things that can go wrong between when the server sends the command to the client to run an event and when the event actually occurs client side. It's easy for the server to know when something is triggered because it sends the command to the client to trigger it, it's far harder to estimate when it's supposed to end without having to read a call back from the client that it ended, which, as a programmer myself, I'd be weary of doing if I was working at Cryptic.
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I agree with most of that. However, I'm virtually certain that the client communication channel back to the server is at least encoded if not encrypted -- I know for sure that the server to the client is encrypted after analyzing the raw network traffic with WireShark.
So, the client FMOD could very easily simply send a client "keypress" (for simplification) back to the server when the audio event completed. I've been working with client/server software for about forty years, so if it's not that simple to integrate into their existing architecture, then they need to fire their system architect.
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That would absolutely be wonderful. However, an animation or sound complete event would be easier to implement and would only involve adding a "Sound Complete" or "Animation Complete" to the Appear When/Disappear When UI dropdowns. And we've been asking for a timer since beta. We're just trying to get SOMETHING useful and as simplistic as possible -- it took a year just to get "stackable" quest items. And that even has an unlabeled checkbox.
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