How to implement 'knockback' on mob spells?

[mrhappyasthma]

I could not easily find a way to implement knockback as part of a mob skill.

Just searching the word "knockback" finds a ton of skills that either don't seem to implement it (in the Lua file) or have TODOs.

I also couldn't seem to find anywhere in the cpp code where this is handled (or at least it wasn't obvious while I was digging around).

Any pointers would be really helpful.

[TeoTwawki]

For skills they are currently in a database column.

https://github.com/LandSandBoat/server/blob/base/sql/mob_skills.sql#L25

The value is in yalms, SE's standard unit of measurement.

for non skills (for example blue magic): not implemented yet.

[TeoTwawki]

the message displaying is a result of the skill having time values. if its prep time and animation time are set zero it will not show the messages. the correct way to replace melee is:

mob:SetMobSkillAttack(list ID here)

you can have multiple skills in the list that is to replace their melee (example: iron giants) or just one (example: wyrms)

to swap them back, zero out the list

mob:SetMobSkillAttack(0) 

remnants of flags in the code are from yon olden days and shouldn't be used. you won't need to mess with modifiers or mobmods either 😃

[ShiyoKozuki]

For multiple, is it

mob:SetMobSkillAttack(list ID #1 here)
mob:SetMobSkillAttack(list ID #2 here)
mob:SetMobSkillAttack(list ID #3 here)

or
mob:SetMobSkillAttack(list ID #1 here, list ID #2 here, list ID #3 here)
?

[TeoTwawki]

for multiple its just one. the list id not the skill id. same as like a normal mob skills go into. you just give it the ID of that list and it will use all of the skills in that list. you make a new list for the mob and put melee skills into it, not its usual skill list. then replace its melee with that list and badda big badda boom you'd got an iron giant pwning the party.

[TeoTwawki]

just now realizing LegionDark's IronGiants seem so have not made it into the codebase. Guess I have stuff I need to share.

[ShiyoKozuki]

Right, I was thinking the individual skill ID for some odd reason. Makes sense and asked something I already knew, my mistake.

Thanks a lot.