a few spells all causing blindness

Hello,

I'm using smaug 1.4a code base,

some spells, such as "sanctuary" and "dragon's wit" are causing blindness to the victim, even though the text that is outputted is the proper one for the spell.

I've been stepping through the code for hours and cannot find the point where it causes blindess (thou i think it is in the affect function). the sn is correct the entire time i'm stepping through the code. it's very weird.

any help/insights are most appreciated.

Yedidya

Have you changed the spell in the skills.dat file? Maybe you have set the blindness bit on the affect (AFF_BLIND).

Are you using an offline editor to edit your spells and such. I had a similar problem some time back and found out that the area editor i was using was adding a -1 flags to the affects and as such would cast blindness. Offline editor maybe adding the same type of affect as nick describes.

I have not changed the spells in spells.dat

i have also recopied spells.dat from the original distro, and it has not helped.

when i look at skills.dat using 'edit skills' in the Area Editor, i see that 'dragon wit' has flags set to -1, and it's causing blindness. 'sanctuary' has flags set to 7, and the text of the effect is 'blind invisible detect_evil', but it's not making the victim invisible.

this is very strange. any ideas?

thanks for your help

Yedidya

Are you using the same version of the Area Editor as I am (1.30)?


The text for the affect under Sanctuary for me is:


Type: affected by
Modifier: sanctuary
Duration: (l*4)+30
Flags: 128


Yes I am also using version 1.30

text is:

Type: affected
Modifier: sanctuary
Duration: (l*4)+30
Flags: 7

maybe i should try to get a skills.dat from a different distro?

Thanks again,

Yedidya

I noticed when I looked through my Area Editor at my spells, none of them have a blindness flag on them, yet when I do something like "slookup Sanctuary" on my mud it reads as followed:
Sn: 135 Slot: 36 Spell: 'sanctuary '
DamType: none ActType: destroy ClassType: life PowerType: none
Saves: none SaveEffect: none
Type: Spell Target: defensive Minpos: 12 Mana: 75 Beats: 12 Range: 0
Flags: 0 Guild: -1 Value: 0 Info: 336 Code: spell_smaug
Sectors Allowed: All
Dammsg:
Wearoff: The luminous aura about your body fades away.

Affect 1 modifies affected by 'sanctuary' and applies blind for '(l*4)+30' rounds

Hitchar : A luminous aura spreads slowly over $N's body.
Hitvict : A luminous aura spreads slowly over your body.
Hitroom : A luminous aura spreads slowly over $N's body.
--------------------------[CLASS USE]-----------------------

not sure why it reads that on the mud and not the area editor.
-Alexander

On my version of Area Editor the sanctuary affect 1 reads:

affected by sanctuary (I*4)+30 Blind Invisible Detect_evil

Check the flags in your smaugconfig.dat file. They should look like this:



Also, make sure that file is loaded in the File -> Preferences menu item.