LOS Checking intermittent

[Fippy]

I have been playing around with the LOS object and have been getting rather inconsistant results. It seems some textures are invisible to it. Running around shadoheaven seemed ok but when running around feerot and oggok it seems most of the textures are not blocking the los check.

I just did a small looping macro to test it so feel free to try it put in some other places.

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#turbo 10

Sub Main 
:Reloop
/doevents
/delay 1s
/echo ${LineOfSight[${Me.Y},${Me.X},${Me.Z}:${Math.Calc[${Me.Y}+${Math.Calc[${Math.Cos[${Me.Heading.DegreesCCW}]}*40]}]},${Math.Calc[${Me.X}+${Math.Calc[${Math.Sin[${Me.Heading.DegreesCCW}]}*40]}]},${Math.Calc[${Me.Z}+2]}]}
/goto :Reloop
/return

[Lax]

All I can tell you is this isnt our own line of sight function, it's the same exact function used by EQ to test if you can see a mob to cast a spell on it etc etc. I didn't write it, I call EQ's.

So, if some textures are invisible to it, it has nothing to do with MQ and everything to do with EQ's design.

You can probably use this to your advantage.

[wassup]

I have been playing around with the LOS object and have been getting rather inconsistant results. It seems some textures are invisible to it. Running around shadoheaven seemed ok but when running around feerot and oggok it seems most of the textures are not blocking the los check.

I just did a small looping macro to test it so feel free to try it put in some other places.

Code: Select all

#turbo 10

Sub Main 
:Reloop
/doevents
/delay 1s
/echo ${LineOfSight[${Me.Y},${Me.X},${Me.Z}:${Math.Calc[${Me.Y}+${Math.Calc[${Math.Cos[${Me.Heading.DegreesCCW}]}*40]}]},${Math.Calc[${Me.X}+${Math.Calc[${Math.Sin[${Me.Heading.DegreesCCW}]}*40]}]},${Math.Calc[${Me.Z}+2]}]}
/goto :Reloop
/return

Yeah, some zones don't block LoS with objects/terrain, and some do.

Quite a bit of raid level content involves taking advantage of certain aspects of the zone.

Ever wonder why you can heal someone through a wall but sometimes you can't cast a spell at a mob through the same wall?

[Virtuoso65]

This LOS function makes the same check for when spells are being cast. In old world zones you can often times cast through solid objects like trees and buildings. This isnt so in most expansions past SoL when they first started upgrading the graphics engine.


On that note, heal spells do not require LOS where detramental spells do.