Spread out loot

[Beefy Kasplant]

Make loot drops 'explode' from the NPC / Player that got killed.

 

Instead of all loot falling on one tile, make it possible for loot to drop in all tiles surrounding the killed entity and the one the entity was on.

 

[Cheshire]

I'm fiddling with this between work, but JC mentioned that in Resources.cs on the server there's a method SpawnResourceItems that has a piece of logic that can almost be copied verbatim for this request if anyone feels like taking a crack at it before I can finish it.

 

EDIT: I've made a patch that does exactly this: 

 

public void SpawnResourceItems(Entity killer)
        {
            //Find tile to spawn items
            var tiles = new List<TileHelper>();
            for (var x = X - 1; x <= X + 1; x++)
            {
                for (var y = Y - 1; y <= Y + 1; y++)
                {
                    var tileHelper = new TileHelper(MapId, x, y);
                    if (tileHelper.TryFix())
                    {
                        //Tile is valid.. let's see if its open
                        var map = MapInstance.Get(tileHelper.GetMapId());
                        if (map != null)
                        {
                            if (!map.TileBlocked(tileHelper.GetX(), tileHelper.GetY()))
                            {
                                tiles.Add(tileHelper);
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                if (killer.MapId == tileHelper.GetMapId() &&
                                    killer.X == tileHelper.GetX() &&
                                    killer.Y == tileHelper.GetY())
                                {
                                    tiles.Add(tileHelper);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            if (tiles.Count > 0)
            {
                TileHelper selectedTile = null;

                //Prefer the players tile, otherwise choose randomly
                for (var i = 0; i < tiles.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (tiles[i].GetMapId() == killer.MapId &&
                        tiles[i].GetX() == killer.X &&
                        tiles[i].GetY() == killer.Y)
                    {
                        selectedTile = tiles[i];
                    }
                }

                if (selectedTile == null)
                {
                    selectedTile = tiles[Globals.Rand.Next(0, tiles.Count)];
                }

                // Drop items
                foreach (var item in Items)
                {
                    if (ItemBase.Get(item.ItemId) != null)
                    {
                        MapInstance.Get(selectedTile.GetMapId())
                            .SpawnItem(selectedTile.GetX(), selectedTile.GetY(), item, item.Quantity);
                    }
                }
            }

            Items.Clear();
        }

 

[minisoft]

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