Cantra Can't Open Doors?

[Knight Captain]

In testing having Cantra in the party, I noticed she cannot open doors, yet Andrio can. Adding the X-Obstacle flag to her shape does not seem to help. Any ideas?

[Dominus]

can she open the doors when she's not in the party? Place her in a room and let her go about her schedule and follow her...

[Knight Captain]

No. She walks to the door but stops at it.

[Dominus]

In an unmodded game as well?

[Knight Captain]

Yes. Confirmed with an older build, plain SI+SS.

[Dominus]

yes, that's odd. I just tried it myself as well...

[Knight Captain]

Need a formal bug report?

[Dominus]

Yes, please.

[Dominus]

Hmm, I need to investigate, it seems to be a regression. In a snapshot from 2010 she still opens the door.

[Dominus]

Cantra is just not intelligent enough to open doors

The culprit is https://github.com/exult/exult/commit/e ... 7cb2e2fd30

[Knight Captain]

I set her Intelligence to 11 and still no-go.

[Dominus]

I think it has more to do with the other stuff he commented in that commit. Will need to see if she has any other flag that sets her apart from usual NPCs

[Dominus]

yes, seems it is affected by the other commented stuff

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if (get_info().get_shape_class() == Shape_info::human ||
	        get_effective_prop(Actor::intelligence) >= 6)
		return true;

I don't dare reverting this until Marzo or another dev can chime in. I don't really understand why it is only happening to Cantra, though. All other NPCs are fine...

Edit: figured it out. As you can see in the actual code the intelligence barrier for monsters to be able to open doors is not 10 but 6.
But the value is not determined by the actual monster or NPC stats in the game but the "monster information" of a shape. And Cantra's shape (#299) monster information intelligence is set to 5. All other NPC shapes with monster information intelligence lower than 6 are affected, too. Example #652.
I'll see if I can discuss this with wjp on how to proceed.

[Dominus]

In the bug report Marzo brought up a good point (by inquiring about that): the original works the same as current Exult. Cantra is not able to open any door.
*Maybe* we should keep it that way to avoid falling victim to fringe cases.
For mods you can edit the shape info and be done with it - that leaves you open to fringe cases again, though...

[agentorangeguy]

Cantra studied hard, trained hard, and was ready for all obstacles and traps in the Knight's Test...

...except for the doors.

[Dominus]

Lydia (NPC #72, shape #652) is another case. Interesting to watch her at 9pm in the original. She is supposed to eat at the Inn but as she can't leave the room she sits down at her desk and yells for the barkeeper

[Knight Captain]

Wow, you guys put a lot of digging into this. This seems like an oversight by the SI developers, sort like the PATROL using the same PACE direction.

Perhaps to cover standard NPCs like Cantra and Lydia, Exult could use the NPC's Intelligence level first? SI function 0x983 does a check for Intelligence level, and considers them able to talk if >= 10.

How does the current code work for shapes that do not have a Monster tab? Like Yelinda, shape 274? Or the two Guard shapes? They can open doors.

I'd like to be able to allow some Wildmen to open doors, and maybe some other monsters (bears, etc.) in my mod. The Skinless Woman also cannot open doors. If we use the NPC's Intelligence level first, that should allow it without break anything.

Fire Elementals, Wildmen, Magic Gremlins, Ice Trolls, plain Trolls, Mummies (5), Ratmen, Undead, Cyclops (4), Headless (3), Suits of Armor, and the Gwani Child are too low to open/close doors even though they are humanoid.

Gazers are at 13 Intelligence, and both Harpies are above 6, but I've not seen them open doors.

[Knight Captain]

Posted details to the bug report:

In the case of my mod, I want to allow transformed clan members to be able to open/close doors as part of the storyline (they remember how to use doors). Thus I would not be able to do this only for clan members but globally across all bears, leopards, and wolves. That's not ideal. So if this is not a bug, per se, please consider it as a feature request.

[Dominus]

Wow, you guys put a lot of digging into this.

That's the problem with bugs nowadays, you need to see where it goes wrong and then compare to the original whether it is actually going wrong and then change it without breaking all other stuff...

In Exult Studio, click on shapes.vga and then on Groups and in "builtin" select "human" and click open. This will display all shapes considered human in Exult.

For your plan of transformed clan members, I'd suggest you duplicate the shapes and use those instead with higher shape intelligence

[Knight Captain]

^ That's a good workaround. Thanks again!