How Do I???

[Kvetch]

I thought I'd just create this topic for people like me that are trying to figure out how to do one small thing and have no clue... so.. yeah, like me.  <FIZZY!!! WHY WON'T IT WORK!>

[Kvetch]

Ok, I started this for a reason...

How do I... get a mob to cast spells?  I understand that he needs mana, but how do I in effect GIVE him mana?  And, why in gods name do I have to anyway?  Shouldn't they come with mana just like players do?  It's not like I'm asking him to destroy the world or anything (though knowing the way I script, that may happen anyway).

Kvetchy

[Mordecai]

dg_cast 'spellname' <target>

dg_cast 'acid arrow' %actor%

dg_cast 'acid arrow' %self.fighting%

[Molly]

From what I've seen dg_cast doesn't work at all, and returns a syserr when you try to use it in a script.
Probably a code issue.

[Kvetch]

worked in build port.  *blinks innocently*  Poor, poor Cati felt the wrath of that spell.

[Fizban]

From what I've seen dg_cast doesn't work at all, and returns a syserr when you try to use it in a script.
Probably a code issue.

I suspect it'd because I've seen numerous times it used as:

dg_cast %actor% 'fireball'
instead of the correct syntax of

dg_cast 'fireball' %actor%

[Molly]

One of the scripts I frequently see erroring has the line
dg_cast 'heal' %self%

So should it be self instead of %self%?
Or maybe just dg_cast 'heal', since that should land the spell on self by default?

In my opinion, all three options ought to work.

[Mordecai]

Pic

[Molly]

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Huh?

[Mordecai]

Pic

Huh?

http://www.kvetch.com/

[Molly]

Funny, but it doesn't answer my question.

[Kvetch]

Perhaps the definition of Kvetch would help out:

Kvetch
to complain habitually : gripe

So basically that site is people complaining about whatever they want to.

Kvetchy

[Molly]

I understand that, Kvetch, but I had an actual question, not a complaint.

[Fizban]

I understand that, Kvetch, but I had an actual question, not a complaint.

Yes, it should most likely be self.

[Molly]

Yes, it should most likely be self.

Umm, no.

I tried both, and both give almost identical errors,
either:
[ Trigger: enrico receive ring, VNum 7528. dg_cast: target not found (dg_cast 'heal' %self%) ]
or
[ Trigger: enrico receive ring, VNum 7528. dg_cast: target not found (dg_cast 'heal' self) ]

Also it seems all spells using DG_cast work very erratically, and mostly not at all.
I am not so sure about DG_affect either.

I recently tried to forcibly put a player to sleep for a few minutes with a script, trying both DG_cast, DG_affect and delay. Neither worked. In the end we had to set up the script with a variable to get it work the intended way.

Plus that context still is bugged.

Is there really no one who could fix those issues? They affect a large number of  quest scripts.
As it is two players cannot work on the same quest, and as far as I know context always worked fine in the past.