Can blood spatters or slime trails be altered?

[Crowley]

I had the idea that it would be nice if I was able to change what kind of blood a creature leaves behind when hit, such as having giant insects bleed yellow goop. After all, all sorts of different colored "blood" spatters already exist in the game's graphics files. I tried examining slimes since those leave behind green slime trails, and on a related note making different colored slimes would also be a nice thing to do.

However, I could not see anything special about the slimes either in Exult Studio or in decompiled usecode. Are these aspects (blood color & leaves liquid trails as moves) another one of those pesky hardcoded things?

[Malignant Manor]

They are all hard coded. It might not be too hard to de hard code. I'm not sure where all the changes would need to be at the moment.

[Malignant Manor]

I made a partial patch and created a feature request tracker for Marzo to finish after we convert to Git. https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/feature-requests/173/

[marzo]

By the way, most of those 'blood' spatters aren't really blood. Looking over BG and SI usecode, these are the results:

* frames 0-3: blood, and SI vomit;
* frames 4-7: slime trails, and SI vomit;
* frames 8-11: SI vomit (Exult also uses as slime trails, but I think this is wrong);
* frames 12-15: beer, and SI vomit;
* frames 16-19: water;
* frames 20-23: wine;
* frames 24 (SI): acid;
* all others: seem to be placeholders, and are unused.

SI vomit creates one each in the first 4 groups, with random frames, and places them all in the same location.

[Crowley]

Thank thee kindly for the speedy and helpful response! Now that I think about it, I suppose the graphical behaviour of slimes using different frames depending on whether there are other slimes adjacent is also hardcoded.

[Malignant Manor]

Unfortunately, it seems that there are several other things that will be done before this gets implemented. In the meantime, you can still test out shapes by replacing them with the originals.

[Crowley]

That's all right. This is just a cosmetic thing that occurred to me, nothing central to the things I am working on.