Spells: bards broke since patch

[Haynar]

Originally Posted by JayFiveAlive

Another bug not mentioned in this thread yet is our Hymn of Restoration. Each time it heals, you hear the cast sound for it. It should not make any sound when healing :P


PS, I imagine playing song animations are broken for good?

Song animations are in my plans.

The fixing Hymn of Restoration, was the purpose of these changes. Then it got out of control real fast.

Haynar

[Elendae]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3745

for any new bards on the server.

[JayFiveAlive]

Thanks for the update and we appreciate your work Haynar

[SKiLD]

Tried looking around the forums to see if this was a known bug, as I had it happen before the patch, but bard's bind sight seems to be broken. Can cast on a NPC and it acts like its sticking on mob (spell effect shows) but nothing happens. Casting on a PC says they are protected. Had a wiz test out his bind sight and it worked fine on a NPC, wont stick on PC either. To make things even wierder, when I was trying spell in Mistmoore on a pathing NPC in castle, some monk on other side of zone says ,"wtf man". I thought I started a train somehow but apparently my bind sight was letting him see through a mages eyes in the zone, neither of which i targeted at anytime. Don't know if I could recreate bug doing same thing. Thanks for any help getting the spell working again and appreciate all the time you, rog, and devs spend on the server Haynar.

[mitic]

could u fix clickies and pots too while you are on it please. iam not able to cast them while playing a song as it should be

ps: some input from another emu server http://emu.pwned.com/showthread.php?...omming-changes

The whole EQ emu source is massively disorganized. If someone were to simply organize the existing code, it would be 10x easier to do anything (no hyperbole). Scrolling through thousands of lines in attack.cpp looking for one little thing isn't really efficient.

I remember plowing through the bard song code some and I didn't even try to fuck with that. I'm sure real EQ has separate code for song functionality, but on emu they just reused normal spell code and ghetto-hacked it up to work for bards.

man, bards must be a nightmare for devs on emu

[bobbobson]

Originally Posted by mitic

could u fix clickies and pots too while you are on it please. iam not able to cast them while playing a song as it should be

In addition to that, I have noticed that it is impossible to use a thrown weapon while singing. I can throw after I turn songs off, but while its on I click ranged attack and nothing happens. I tried it with throwing daggers and shuriken.

Edit: Just so you know, I don't know if bards are actually supposed to be able to do this, it just seemed fishy to me.

[Haynar]

I got a lot of the bard code straight now. I put myself at about 95%.

Bards should be able to use clickies while singing?

Anything to back that up? Just asking, as it will get backed out of the code if it shouldnt be in there, so I dont want to waste time trying to do that if its not okay.

Haynar

[Droxx]

I don't remember them being able to use clickies while singing, but they COULD use clickies while running.

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by Haynar

I got a lot of the bard code straight now. I put myself at about 95%.

You are the man, Haynar!

[JayFiveAlive]

Great to hear!! This isn't huge, just was curious - will other players ever be able to see bard song animations?