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[stranf]

I searched the forum, but couldn't find anything. Is there currently a way to enable the elf race on UOx3?

I try to create one, and it just says it's not supported.

[Xuri]

Alas, elves aren't supported yet. :/ Someone needs to add code for allowing the selection during character creation, as well as make the necessary changes throughout the source to make everything that depends on the human body ids also work for the elven body ids.
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[stranf]

sounds like a lot of work. :)

I'd personally rather have magic and boats first. heheh.

[Maarc]

Hmmm, Xu, is it just an updated packet thingy, and adding closer comparisons to the real body types?

I might be able to take a crack at that. I've recently installed a client and patched up to 5.0.1h, with the intent to try and take a look at code more often, once I finish a few things here.

Mind you, if you're really keen, you can send me a list of things todo, and I can try and work my way through them (admittedly, very slow)

[giwo]

Heya Maarc... long time no see!

Any contributions would be more than welcome... as you may have noticed I've been inactive for almost a month now, we are moving to Los Angeles, and thus I have no time to contribute to UOX3 currently.

Regarding the to-do list, Xuri would be the best person for you as you mentioned, but I thought I might bring up something I may have mentioned before. We have an issue with the JS engine where Get/Set props on classes are allocating and not freeing memory.

For instance, say you did var myContainer = item.Container; it would allocate the memory for the new object (the container) but there is nowhere we can check and clean up that allocated memory later. I've yet to come up with a solution to this problem (which becomes quite a large problem when taken in context of an itemcount loop such as wipe).

Anyhow, hope all is going there downunder, and my apologies to the UOX3 community for the lack of updates on the project.

[Maarc]

I can certainly think of one way of doing it, and that's by adding an explicit Dispose or Release method to the classes. The problem with that is, of course, is we don't know specifically *when* an object is being created/deleted, so it's not always easy to determine, of course, when it should be disposed of.

For things like itemcount loops and what not, they'd probably be reasonably trivial. But it's, as you say, the implicit construction of these objects, not the explicit, that bites you in the rear. One possibility (20 seconds thought) is we attach a needsDisposing boolean to each object, and set it to false for the things we know they DON'T want to dispose of, and have the dispose function do that. Sure, that means you make some extra calls to potentially dispose things you don't want, but it's better too many than too little (and this way, we track it a touch better). But again, only 20 seconds thought (came to me as I was writing).

Things are good here, been busy picking up more work, and trying to build a social life, but I still do daily CVS grabs.

I'll try and come up with some pointed questions to ask Xuri to get the ball rolling (for example, what is missing to get spells entirely out to JS).

[giwo]

The JS Spells question I can answer for you, as I wrote the clumsy js script. (The only spell that currently is run from the JS).

There are two major things we are missing, and feel free to open up clumsy.js to see just what implementation of these things we require for magic.

1) LoS checking

2) Combat functions (Mostly routines to initiate combat).

Once those are exposed, JS magic should be fully functional (as soon as the actual scripts are written).

[Xuri]

I dug up some stuff concerning elves and whatnot from RunUO:

[giwo]

Most sections of UOX3 will use CChar::IsHuman() which currently supports Male, Female, and GM bodies. So that change shouldn't be very difficult.

[Grimson]

While your at it, you could also add support for the SE races like ninjas .

[stranf]

wow this topic got detailed! On the SE note....my Yumi bow won't accept arrows. :(

Oh well, the elven composites work fine..

Like I said, if elves are too much trouble currently, it's not important. Magic and boats are personally what I'd like tackled first. (which magic is in the beta, still looking forward to the new CVS build this next weekend)

[Xuri]

Ninjitsu isn't a race, it's a class/skill =) Along with bushido, necromancy, chivalry and focus, it has been enabled in the current release of UOX3, but not yet "implemented". Which means, you can write your own JScripts for those skills if you want to (through the onSkill event), but there is currently no implemented functionality for them.

The reason your Yumi bow won't accept arrows, is that it's defined in the UOX3 source as a "crossbow" Which it obviously isn't hehe. Fix will be up on CVS for that... now. Short term fix for you if you don't mess with the source yourself - use crossbow bolts instead =)
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[Grimson]

[Xuri]

Ah yes, we need support for those too!
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[giwo]

Xuri: if there are no major bugs (since v3.1 release) we could just make the current CVS v3.2 to get it into peoples hands.

[Xuri]

Sure, works for me. =)
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[stranf]

giwo, I checked out the CVS that was zipped on the other post, and I did run into a stacking bug that was deleting objects. It started when I was cutting cloth that was woven from cotton in the field. There is more info on the "anyone have the CVS for download?" thread.

I can continue to play on the beta server and try to get you more information if your interested.

But I agree, if that bug was absent in my 2 hours of play, I'd say the current CVS is ready to replace the current build.

[Xuri]

Forgot to provide the actual hair-ids! So here they are: