Does anyone know how the connection is made between a spell and its radial menu selection found in spells_radial_menu_options.mes? For example, if I go to cast Summon Monster III, the radial menus comes up with a list of protos based on entry 1100: ; summon monster 2 {1100} {4} ; number of monsters to select from in this spell {1101} {14393} {1102} {14406} {1103} {14398} {1104} {14401} These can be changed within the spell itself, but what exactly tells Summon Monster III to use {1100} as it's sub menu? So if someone wanted to add a spell with it's own menu in the next available slot, which would currently be 2900, where is that change made? Thanks.
From what I've seen it's hardcoded - I recently saw this for Summon Nature's Ally, there's just a hardcoded table in the DLL and a hardcoded function that accesses it.
Ahh. So when the Summon spells of level VI, VII, VII, and IX were added, those must have already existed internally for use, and were already linked to their respective slot in spell_radial_menu_options.mes. So no dice on adding new ones without altering the dll. I notice though, that there's an available one at "{1900}" between where the nine summon monster spells end (1000 - 1800), and where nature's ally begins (2000+). I wonder what spell, if any, would link to that?
Actually that table only went to 2400 and was expanded to 2800 by SpellSlinger's DLL hack, so it didn't originally support those. So I don't think there's any particular spell for that.
I've just overhauled this for Temple+, it will now read from the rules\spells entries. The specification is done via a new field "choices: ", which indicates which lines from spell_radial_menu_options to use. e.g. the spell specification for Command (067 - command.txt) now looks like this Code: School: Enchantment Subschool: Charm Descriptor: Mind-Affecting Descriptor: Language-Dependent Level: Clr 1 Component: V Casting Time: 1 action Range: Close Saving Throw: Willpower Spell Resistance: Yes Projectile: No flags_Target: Range inc_flags_Target: Other exc_flags_Target: Self exc_flags_Target: Dead exc_flags_Target: Non-critter mode_Target: Single min_Target: 1 max_Target: 1 radius_Target: 0 ai_type: ai_action_offensive choices: 211 212 213 214 Similarly for the summon spells, except the proto numbers will just be directly listed via "proto choices: ". E.g. for Summon Nature's Ally IX Code: School: Conjuration Subschool: Summoning Level: Animal 9 Level: Drd 9 Component: V Component: S Casting Time: Full Round Range: Close Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No Projectile: No flags_Target: Range exc_flags_Target: Self exc_flags_Target: Other exc_flags_Target: Dead exc_flags_Target: Non-critter mode_Target: Area radius_Target: 1 ai_type: ai_action_summon proto choices: 14516 14517 14518 14519
So does this mean any spell at all can now be given a radial dial option by including the "choices" option in its rules file, and then just adding a new entry to spells_radial_menu_options.mes? This would be great for spells like Delayed Blast Fireball.
