Validity of Quest Objects
 

How many of these quest objects are still valid?

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...a=QuestObjects

I've tried a few in $mob & they don't work.

Is there an updated complete list that someone might share?

To the best of my knowledge, they all still work, plus some more that aren't listed there. What have you tried?

I know it isn't as convenient as an up-to-date, alphabetized list, but if you look at the source code you can find all these functions in perl_mob.cpp. The same is true for the other quest objects... look in perl_"whatever".cpp

I don't have c++, I'm not a server dev, I just code quests =o. I'll see if I can get this ripped though! Thanks!

Sometimes you have to play with them a bit to get them working. Most of the ones in $mob actually need to be used as $npc or $client, and don't work as $mob. Sometimes, you also have to do a CastTo to get them working. Just takes alot of playing with them sometimes to get them figured out.

I'll give you a shiny nickel to explain the CastTo stuff, I see it all over and still have no real idea what it does....

I'd forgotten that the $mob stuff doesn't work in quite as straightforward a fashion as the others. Almost nothing that I've seen actually works with the $mob variable, but those functions will work if you call them from $npc or $client, depending on who you want them performed on (or by). You can think of the $mob functions as a subset of the $client and $npc... I'm sure there are exceptions, but all of the functions I played with can be called from either (but don't work if you actually use $mob).

The CastTo... functions are used to change an object from one type to another. So if you want to use a function from the mob list on the client, you could use "$client->CastToMob()->" or "$npc->CastToMob()->" to call whatever $mob function you want. I've never actually had to use the CastTo functions in quest writing, but then I haven't really pushed the limits of the system, either.

Thanks Reality, that helps a ton actually....

GetHateTop is on the $mob list, I'm trying to have one mob get the hate top of the list of another mob & cast a spell on it but not aggro...before I drive myself any crazier...is this even possible? I've been on this for a while now and can't get it rolling.

I see similar things in the linking of mobs in TOV (Like Eashen)....and I think I found the code in Sentry Rotiart, but I am not sure how to modify it to cast a spell instead of attacking:

$traitorattack->CastSpell(spellid, $client);
in this case, doesn't work..

I'm grasping at straws here, I'm missing some small piece of how all this fits together.

The main problem with your version of the quest is that GetHateTop() isn't a member of the entity list. If you call $npc->GetHateTop(), you'll get a result, which I believe is mob type. You should then be able to either call functions from that or cast it to whatever you need.

You also have a typo in the last line ("trator" instead of "traitor").

Ok, so CastToNPC() is the variable passer that I've been looking for? I may joygasm if that is the case

my $attack=$npc->GetHateTop();
my $traitorattack=$attack->CastToNPC();
$traitorattack->CastSpell(spellid,$client);