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Re: CF: 0.94.1 bug?
I suggest that CF code should prevent only magic ears and magic mouths
from becoming visible. It is clearly incorrect for a see invisible
spell to reveal the key words and responses. That part of a magic ear/mouth
is actually internal which used invisible to prevent it from being
seen.
All other invisible objects should be made visible via the see invisible
spell since CF server code cannot know whether map designer intended
object to be revealed via see invisible.
I think there needs to be a new object flag of INTERNAL_OBJECT which
means object is, by definition, never to be revealed to the players.
Then it is possible to edit maps and set objects that the map layout
implies should never be revealed as INTERNAL_OBJECT. Presumably,
all magic mouths and ears could be specified as INTERNAL_OBJECTs.
sdw
>>
>> I still think it's a bad idea to use a "positive" list --- use a negstive
>> list of things that should never be made visible (magic ears and mouths;
>> anything else?).
>
> Unholy ground, no magic areas, etc. There is potentionally a lot of things
> that should perhaps not be made visible - at least depending on the map makers
> point of view. There is no good solution for this with the current code - the
> solution is to rewrite how invisibility is handled by the code (add more flags
> on whether detect invisible should make a particular item visible or not).
>
> By default, anything could be made invislble.
> By default, only invisible monsters & players could be made visible.
> Everything else by default can not be made visible. This coudl be overridden
> by map designers.
>
> However, that requires some coding, which someone will need to do at some
> point.
>
>
>>
>> Christian
>>-- End of excerpt from Christian Stieber
>
> -- Mark Wedel
> mark@pyramid.com
>
>
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