by rld » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:37 pm
Nihil Vulture wrote:What I mean is, is there a macro for a way for the player tile to connect another tile and it follows the player like a two piece one tile?
Are you wanting to have the player 'drag' an object along (like a tractor beam/magnet sort of mechanism), or are you actually trying to make a player character more than 1 tile in size?
Dragging an object might be possible with the existing engine using a step macro. But making the PC more than one tile in size would not be easily doable without overhauling the ACK engine to support it.
In addition, having a player more than one tile in size has the potential to enormously complicate the game engine ruleset in general. Say that you have a player 1x2 tiles in size (1 high, 2 wide). Does that mean that the player can now only fit through vertical passages at least two tiles wide? If a player travels north and hits two adjacent portals at the same time, and the portals go to two different destinations, which one is followed?
If the player [A]ttacks to the south, and there are two creatures adjacent to the player's south side, does the player attack both of them? If the player uses a stream or cone weapon, from which of the player's two tile locations does the stream/cone emanate? If the player drops an object to the south, on which of the two possible destination tiles (both adjacent to the player's south side) does the object land? Etc, etc, etc...
[quote="Nihil Vulture"]What I mean is, is there a macro for a way for the player tile to connect another tile and it follows the player like a two piece one tile?[/quote]
Are you wanting to have the player 'drag' an object along (like a tractor beam/magnet sort of mechanism), or are you actually trying to make a player character more than 1 tile in size?
Dragging an object might be possible with the existing engine using a step macro. But making the PC more than one tile in size would not be easily doable without overhauling the ACK engine to support it.
In addition, having a player more than one tile in size has the potential to enormously complicate the game engine ruleset in general. Say that you have a player 1x2 tiles in size (1 high, 2 wide). Does that mean that the player can now only fit through vertical passages at least two tiles wide? If a player travels north and hits two adjacent portals at the same time, and the portals go to two different destinations, which one is followed?
If the player [A]ttacks to the south, and there are two creatures adjacent to the player's south side, does the player attack both of them? If the player uses a stream or cone weapon, from which of the player's two tile locations does the stream/cone emanate? If the player drops an object to the south, on which of the two possible destination tiles (both adjacent to the player's south side) does the object land? Etc, etc, etc...