Make sure you have holylight off too, of course.

-- Jeremy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Another affects bug


> > af.bitvector = AFF_HIDING;
>
> Let's start with the easy troubleshoots.  Could it be as something small as
this
> (and other checks) supposed to be AFF_HIDE?  Although you should be getting
> compiler errors if it's supposed to be AFF_HIDE since AFF_HIDING should be
> undeclared.  Or maybe your test character's 'hide' skill is 1%, or they don't
> know it at all.  Definitely a problem there.
>
> What do you mean 'will not work for chars'?  Clarify.  They are not hiding?
> Have you tried to see if the bit is setting correctly by stat <charname> after
> they have typed 'hide'? (In stat, you'll see a line "Affected by <XXX>".  If
> 'hide' is not showing up here, then see below). If the hide bit is being set
> correctly, then you'll have to take a look through bool can_see (*ch,*ch) to
see
> if maybe that's the culprit.  If not there, then repost, identifying what you
> have boiled the problem down to.
>
> - Jeremy
>
> If hide is not showing up in a stat, then there's a few potential problems.
> Firstly, there's a possibility that hide is not in the ascii table lookup.
Look
> in char *affect_bit_name( int vector ) for that.  Or the bit is not being set
> correctly.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rick St Jean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:07 AM
> Subject: Another affects bug
>
>
> > I am working on actually cleaning up hide, trying to get
> > it to work properly, but I am having a problem getting
> > the IS_AFFECTED to check and see of the AFF_HIDE flag is set
> > on chars.  This works fine when set on mobs with olc.
> >
> > All of the other equivalents of IS_AFFECTED work just fine
> > with the Q bit. I have an AFF_BURY (for vampires) does the same thing, and
> works fine.  it is an IS_AFFECTED2 bit.
> >
> > I pasted the skills and the code that strips them. For some
> > reason bury is perfect .. but hide will not work on chars.
> >
> > and insight would be wonderful.  Thanks.  Snippets below
> >
> >
> > ---------in skills.c
> >
> > void do_hide(CHAR_DATA * ch, char *argument)
> > {
> > AFFECT_DATA af;
> >
> > send_to_char("You attempt to hide.\n\r", ch);
> >
> > affect_strip(ch, gsn_hide);
> >
> > if (number_percent() < get_skill(ch, gsn_hide))
> > {
> > af.where = TO_AFFECTS;
> > af.type = gsn_hide;
> > af.level = ch->level;
> > af.duration = ch->level;
> > af.location = 0;
> > af.modifier = 0;
> > af.bitvector = AFF_HIDING;
> > affect_to_char(ch, &af);
> >
> > check_improve(ch, gsn_hide, TRUE, 3);
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > check_improve(ch, gsn_hide, FALSE, 3);
> > }
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > void do_bury(CHAR_DATA * ch, char *argument)
> > {
> > AFFECT_DATA af;
> >
> > if (!IS_VAMPIRE(ch))
> > {
> > send_to_char("You are to claustrophobic to bury yourself.\n\r", ch);
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > if (IS_SET(ch->in_room->room_flags, ROOM_INDOORS) ||
> (ch->in_room->sector_type==SECT_INSIDE) || (ch->in_room->sector_type ==
> SECT_WATER_SHALLOW) || (ch->in_room->sector_type == SECT_WATER_DEEP)
> > || (ch->in_room->sector_type == SECT_AIR) || (ch->in_room->sector_type ==
> SECT_WATER_DEEP_SURFACE))
> > {
> > send_to_char("You cannot cover yourself here.\n\r", ch);
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > affect_strip(ch, gsn_bury);
> >
> > send_to_char("You attempt to bury yourself.\n\r", ch);
> > act_new("$n tries to bury $mself.", ch, NULL, NULL, TO_ROOM, POS_RESTING,
> TRUE, C_DEFAULT);
> >
> >
> > if (number_percent() < get_skill(ch, gsn_bury))
> > {
> > af.where = TO_AFFECTS2;
> > af.type = gsn_bury;
> > af.level = ch->level;
> > af.duration = ch->level;
> > af.location = 0;
> > af.modifier = 0;
> > af.bitvector = AFF_BURY;
> > affect_to_char(ch, &af);
> >
> >     send_to_char("It is very dark, and you feel claustrophobic.\n\r", ch);
> > check_improve(ch, gsn_bury, TRUE, 3);
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > check_improve(ch, gsn_bury, FALSE, 3);
> > }
> >
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > ----- in act_move.c
> > if (IS_AFFECTED(ch, AFF_HIDING))
> > {
> >   affect_strip(ch, gsn_hide);
> > send_to_char("You slip out of hiding.\n\r", ch);
> > }
> >
> > if (IS_AFFECTED2(ch, AFF_BURY))
> > {
> >   affect_strip(ch, gsn_bury);
> > send_to_char("You exume yourself.\n\r", ch);
> > }
> >
> >
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