[Shoie13]

This topic involves races and languages and bitvectors, and how to extend them. I'm using a modified version of SWRFUSS.

Anyway, I wanted to extend races and languages so I could have more than 32, since bitvectors stop at 32. I tried putting them in a typedef enum table, and while it seemed to work for races, languages had several problems, such as not showing up on the LANGUAGES command, and mobs reporting that they were trying to speak a null language.

I think the problem originated somewhere around LANG_UNKNOWN.


Here's how it originally looks:

#define LANG_COMMON      BV00                          
#define LANG_SHYRIIWOOK  BV01
#define LANG_TWI_LEK     BV02
#define LANG_RODIAN      BV03
#define LANG_HUTT        BV04
#define LANG_MON_CALAMARI   BV05      
#define LANG_NOGHRI      BV06
#define LANG_EWOK        BV07
#define LANG_ITHORIAN    BV08
#define LANG_GOTAL       BV09              
#define LANG_DEVARONIAN  BV10
#define LANG_BINARY      BV11
#define LANG_SPIRITUAL   BV12
#define LANG_MAGICAL     BV13
#define LANG_GAMORREAN   BV14               
#define LANG_GOD         BV15
#define LANG_ANCIENT     BV16
#define LANG_JAWA        BV17
#define LANG_CLAN        BV18
#define LANG_ADARIAN     BV19
#define LANG_VERPINE     BV20
#define LANG_DEFEL       BV21
#define LANG_TRANDOSHAN  BV22
#define LANG_CHADRA_FAN  BV23
#define LANG_QUARREN     BV24
#define LANG_BOTHESE     BV25
#define LANG_UNKNOWN        0 /* Anything that doesnt fit a category */
#define VALID_LANGS    ( LANG_COMMON | LANG_SHYRIIWOOK  | LANG_TWI_LEK | LANG_RODIAN  \
                       | LANG_HUTT | LANG_MON_CALAMARI | LANG_NOGHRI | LANG_GAMORREAN \
                       | LANG_JAWA | LANG_ADARIAN | LANG_EWOK | LANG_BINARY | LANG_VERPINE | LANG_DEFEL \
                       | LANG_TRANDOSHAN | LANG_CHADRA_FAN | LANG_QUARREN | LANG_BOTHESE )

Here is how I had it:

/*
 * Languages -- Altraag
 */
#define LANG_UNKNOWN        0 /* Anything that doesnt fit a category */
typedef enum
{
   LANG_COMMON, LANG_SHYRIIWOOK, LANG_TWI_LEK, LANG_RODIAN, LANG_HUTT, LANG_MON_CALAMARI,
   LANG_NOGHRI, LANG_EWOK, LANG_ITHORIAN, LANG_GOTAL, LANG_DEVARONIAN, LANG_BINARY,
   LANG_SPIRTUAL, LANG_MAGICAL, LANG_GAMORREAN, LANG_GOD, LANG_ANCIENT, LANG_JAWA,
   LANG_CLAN, LANG_ADARIAN, LANG_VERPINE, LANG_DEFEL, LANG_TRANDOSHAN, LANG_CHADRA_FAN,
   LANG_QUARREN, LANG_BOTHESE
} lang_types;
#define VALID_LANGS    ( LANG_COMMON | LANG_SHYRIIWOOK  | LANG_TWI_LEK | LANG_RODIAN  \
                       | LANG_HUTT | LANG_MON_CALAMARI | LANG_NOGHRI | LANG_GAMORREAN \
                       | LANG_JAWA | LANG_ADARIAN | LANG_EWOK | LANG_BINARY | LANG_VERPINE | LANG_DEFEL \
                       | LANG_TRANDOSHAN | LANG_CHADRA_FAN | LANG_QUARREN | LANG_BOTHESE )
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I also tried commenting out the define for LANG_UNKNOWN and tried putting it in the table:

typedef enum
{
   LANG_COMMON, LANG_SHYRIIWOOK, LANG_TWI_LEK, LANG_RODIAN, LANG_HUTT, LANG_MON_CALAMARI,
   LANG_NOGHRI, LANG_EWOK, LANG_ITHORIAN, LANG_GOTAL, LANG_DEVARONIAN, LANG_BINARY,
   LANG_SPIRTUAL, LANG_MAGICAL, LANG_GAMORREAN, LANG_GOD, LANG_ANCIENT, LANG_JAWA,
   LANG_CLAN, LANG_ADARIAN, LANG_VERPINE, LANG_DEFEL, LANG_TRANDOSHAN, LANG_CHADRA_FAN,
   LANG_QUARREN, LANG_BOTHESE, LANG_UNKOWN
} lang_types;

That stopped most of the bug spam about null languages, although most mobs then spoke several languages, and one mob was still reporting a null language, and my ch->speaking and ch->speaks was negative. Anyway, my question is, is there any other way to easily extend the bitvectors so I can have virtually unlimited race and language creation abilitites, or a way to fix the languages to work in a typedef enum table? Thanks in advance.

[Samson]

The enum you have defined will work for the flags, but you need to keep that VALID_LANGS listing as well. In the code where languages are actually set on the player, they need to be switched from SET_BIT to xSET_BIT in order to pass 32. But that also means you'll need to get extended bitvector support coded into SWR to begin with since it doesn't usually have it.