No attack zone thinger in Developer Help

ID:142934
 
Jan 29 2008, 11:33 am
Code:
area/nokill
    Entered(mob/M)
        M.canattack=0
    Exited(mob/M)
        M.canattack=1


Problem description:
So this is in the spawn point, but it doesn't seem to work. Did I screw it up somewhere?
#1 Jan 29 2008, 2:44 pm
Are you doing a check for canattack in your attack procedure? Make sure you do that or it's just a pointless variable.
#2 Jan 29 2008, 4:06 pm
Entered() and Exited() are never called if you modify loc directly. Instead of what you have, do this:

area
  var/pacify = 0

mob/proc/attack(var/mob/M)
  //get the area we're standing in (or what should be an area)
  var/area/A = loc.loc
  //if the area is pacified (or loc.loc isn't an area, meaning we're in the contents of something else), return
  if(!isarea(A) || A.pacify)
    return
  //attack stuff here
#3 Jan 30 2008, 3:59 am
In response to Jholder84 (#1)
Yeah. if usr.cannattack==0 then the user can't attack.
#4 Jan 30 2008, 4:14 am
In response to Garthor (#2)
Okay, so I added that in, but how do I get the area from the code to the map, since it doesn't have a name?

I tried:

area
    nokilling
        var/pacify=0


But it didn't work. I had an error.
#5 Jan 30 2008, 6:01 am
In response to GohanIdz (#3)
So at the beginning of your attack proc you have
Attack()
  if(usr.canattack==0)
    usr << "You can't attack"
    return
  the
  rest
  of
  your
  code

Is that basically right?

:EDIT:

And let me further ask...
Do you want the mob to not be able to attack or do you want them to not be attackable?
#6 Jan 30 2008, 9:04 am
In response to GohanIdz (#4)
The variable is already defined, so you'd just do pacify=0, not var/pacify=0.

And it would be 1 to prevent killing, not 0.
#7 Jan 31 2008, 4:24 am
In response to Jholder84 (#5)
I want them not to be able to attack.

I put in the pacify bit though, so I guess we'll see if that works.