Castle Paradox

[Bagne]

Um, when an attack is set to random targeting, the target randomly zips around between enemies.

Is this supposed to happen?
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[Bob the Hamster]

[Bagne]

Ok. S'cool.

What about this:

My attack animation is set to scatter and the number of hits is set to 3.
When the attack animates, the second and third scatter animation originate from the previous attack's ending position.

Is *that* intentional?

If not, it's kinda cool. You may want to keep it...
It might look neat when there's many of them going off at once.
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[Baconlabs]

I can only assume it's intentional, it's been around for ages. I remember encountering that back in Quaternion.
Even so, it gets weird when you have lots and lots of hits and they start going off the screen.

[Bagne]

Aha!
There's a bitset named "automaticaly choose target".
It lets me randomize my targeting without needing to do the roulette.

If I set target to "focus" and preferred target to "random"
It randomly selects an enemy and then prompts me to hit enter ... but, if I want to, I can just pick a different enemy.

Ok, on to PROBLEM #2:

I can't figure out a way to chain together 4 random attacks together, and have each one target a different enemy.
So far, I can only manage to hit the same enemy 4 times in a row (poor shmuck).
I've tried putting their target settings to random, their preferred target to random, flipping the "automatically choose target" bitset, and any combination thereof. It won't work.

Btw, what is "preferred target" supposed to do? Is this the first enemy the arrow points to when you choose an attack (although you can change it)?

Edit:
Ok, I've developed a workaround. If I buffer my 4 randomized attack chain with 3 dummy attacks that target only the casting hero, a new random number is generated for the next random enemy-targeting attack.

If there's an easier way to do this, I'd like to know :-)
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[Bob the Hamster]

[Raekuul]

You mean spells like... oh... all the chained ones, with exception of Megabubble step 1?
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[Bob the Hamster]

I looked through the source, and realized I had cleaned it up more than I remembered. here is how the chaining rule works.

If the target class and the target setting are exactly the same, then the old target will be used.

Which is pretty reasonable, I think.

Here is the problem. I forgot that target setting "random focus" starts on the first target and cycles rapidly. I should change it so that it starts on a random target and then cycles rapidly. This will make it behave correctly when used in the chaining situation that Bagne is working on.

I can make that fix pretty easily, and no backwards-compatibility attack bitsets will be required :)

EDIT: Fixed! Early nightly build forced. I discovered that this bug affected Gisli's Berzerk skill too, I had just never noticed it because I was mostly testing Gisli on enemies that die in one or two hits.

I renamed "Random Focus" to "Random Roulette"

I made sure that Random Focus is now always really random when used in a chain.

I also fixed a bug where "preferred target" was not respected in a chain if the previous attack had the same target class and target setting.

[Bagne]

Sweet - I think that last bug you fixed should make my task much less complicated ( although I've already done it the complicated way :-D )

Now, had I actually wanted to randomly target one enemy, and chain a bunch of stuff to the same dude, could I have...

... set the "target setting" of all of the attacks to "focus", with the first attack having a "preferred setting" of random (and the rest as "default")?
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