Stendhal/Creature Organization

Goals

• Organize creatures with class and sub-class. This can be done using the filename to determine creature class and a tag for subclass.

Example: undead.xml

<creatures>

  <subclass value="skeleton">
    
    <creature name="skeleton">
    </creature>
    
    <creature name="warrior skeleton">
    </creature>
  
  </subclass>
  
  <subclass value="zombie">
  
    <creature name="zombie">
    </creature>
    
    <creature name="rotten zombie">
    </creature>
    
  </subclass>
  
</creatures>

In the above example creatures skeleton & warrior skeleton would be of class undead and subclass skeleton while zombie & rotten zombie would be class undead and subclass zombie.

Requirements

• Consistency
• Compatibility

Affected Aspects

• Server
  • Creature xml definitions are organized by creature class
  • Creature logic tileset is organized by creature class
• Client
  • Sprite location depends on creature class
  • Drawing size of the creature was derived from the creature class, there might still be code left which does that
• Website

Examples

Please see Stendhal/Creature Organization/Examples for examples of reorganisations.