As I was looking over the character class definition, I began to wonder how we want to handle assigning unique IDs to each creature, npc, and character, but for the engine, and for the editor.
My idea is to assign IDs to the npcs in the order they are created. Determining the next ID in the sequence would be as simple as reading in the last record from a given data file and incrementing that ID. It seems to get a little more complex when dealing with creatures and monsters, as they would be created once in the editor and then possibly instantiated many times over. In order to deal with this one-to-many relationship, I suggest that the template for each creature have a multi-digit ID, where the first one or two digits are the creature's type ID and the last one or two digits can be used to track the number of instances. For example, a given section of the map is occupied by winter wolves, badgers, bears, and venomous snakes. The winter wolves have a base ID of 1500. The Badgers are in the 1600 sequence, the bears in 1700, and the snakes in 2150. An individual wolf might be 1541. Andrew _______________________________________________ Adonthell-devel mailing list Adonthell-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/adonthell-devel
