301 Days (redux)

Day 15 - Moar Live Info!

by Joe Threeohone

We need to supply more live info about the NPCs, so we can do more cool stuff.

Need Input

Seeing NPCs suddenly be dead isn’t very interesting; we want to see them take damage, know who they’re fighting, etc. So I made a quick laundry list of NPC details we should be able to track:

"DragonsSpine/SQL Scripts/LiveNPC.sql"link
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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[LiveNPC](
    [uniqueId] [int] NOT NULL,
    [name] [nvarchar](255) NOT NULL,
    [facet] [smallint] NOT NULL,
    [land] [smallint] NOT NULL,
    [map] [smallint] NOT NULL,
    [xCord] [smallint] NOT NULL,
    [yCord] [smallint] NOT NULL,
    [zCord] [int] NOT NULL,
    [level] [int] NOT NULL,
    [hits] [int] NOT NULL,
    [fullHits] [int] NOT NULL,
    [mana] [int] NOT NULL,
    [fullMana] [int] NOT NULL,
    [lastCommand] [nvarchar](255) NOT NULL,
    [lastActiveRound] [int] NOT NULL,
    [firstActiveRound] [int] NOT NULL,
    [isDead] [bit] NOT NULL  DEFAULT (0),
    [mostHatedId] [int] NULL,
    [hateCenterX] [smallint] NULL,
    [hateCenterY] [smallint] NULL,
    [loveCenterX] [smallint] NULL,
    [loveCenterY] [smallint] NULL,
    [fearLove] [int] NULL,
    [NpcTypeCode] [int] NULL ,
    [BaseTypeCode] [int] NULL ,
    [CharacterClassCode] [int] NULL ,
    [AlignCode] [int] NULL ,
    [numAttackers] [int] NULL,
    [lairLocationX] [smallint] NULL,
    [lairLocationY] [smallint] NULL,
    [lairLocationZ] [int] NULL,
    [priorityCode] [int] NULL,
    [effects] [nvarchar](255) NULL

So out with the NPCLocation table, in with the LiveNPC table. I replaced the necessary logic, pulling what I needed from the NPC and Character classes. Lots of cut-paste-edit, with a couple of interesting bits:

DragonsSpine/SQL Scripts/prApp_LiveNPC_Update.sqllink
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    IF @@ROWCOUNT=0
        INSERT INTO LiveNPC (
            uniqueId,
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            lastCommand,
            lastActiveRound,
            firstActiveRound,
            isDead,
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            @lastCommand,
            @lastActiveRound,
            @lastActiveRound,
            @isDead,

firstActiveRound isn’t a concept inside of the server code, but we can track it this way: in the SQL, when a new NPC needs to be inserted, save the firstActiveRound as the same as the lastActiveRound (which will be the current round); for updates, don’t touch it.

DragonsSpine/GameObjects/GameLiving/NPC/NPC.cslink
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                // Save live NPC data
                if (Character.NPCList.Contains(ch))
                    DAL.DBNPC.SaveLiveNpc(npc);

I wanted to track dead NPCs, as long as they were still in the world, to see if there are any cases where they stick around while dead. So rather than checking IsDead, I have to see if they’ve been removed from the global NPC list yet.

Very Interesting

Matching Client

Of course, now that we’ve changed where the live NPC data is going, the client side will have to read from there. An easy change:

Assets/DragonsSpine/DAL/DBNPC.cslink
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        public static List<NPC> GetAllNpcs()
        {
            List<NPC> npclist = new List<NPC>();
            
            using (SqlConnection tempConnection = DataAccess.GetSQLConnection())
            using (SqlStoredProcedure sp = new SqlStoredProcedure("prApp_LiveNPC_by_MapID", tempConnection)) {
                sp.AddParameter("@facet", SqlDbType.Int, 4, ParameterDirection.Input, 0);
                sp.AddParameter("@land", SqlDbType.Int, 4, ParameterDirection.Input, 0);
                sp.AddParameter("@map", SqlDbType.Int, 4, ParameterDirection.Input, 0);
                DataTable dtNPCs = sp.ExecuteDataTable();
                foreach (DataRow dr in dtNPCs.Rows)
                {
                    NPC npc = new NPC();
                    npc.worldNpcID = Convert.ToInt32(dr["uniqueId"]);
                    npc.lastActiveRound = Convert.ToInt32(dr["lastActiveRound"]);
                    npc.Name = dr["name"].ToString();
                    npc.X = Convert.ToInt16(dr["xCord"]);
                    npc.Y = Convert.ToInt16(dr["yCord"]);
                    npc.Z = Convert.ToInt16(dr["zCord"]);
                    npclist.Add(npc);
                }
            }
            return npclist;
        }

Not pulling in any of the new info until we have a use for it, but at least that brings things back to normal:

This is my new jam

Day 15 code - server
Day 15 code - client