Lua TFS 1.x Summon Creature spell in LUA?

[Michael Orsino]

Hey guys,

Has anyone written the summon creature spell in LUA?
I'm hoping to use a custom implementation of summon creature on a little project I'm toying with.
I have not touched Tibia in awhile and I never really looked into spells, but this is what I put together just now (it doesn't work).

function onCastSpell(player, var)

    local orig = player:getPosition()
    local creatureId = doSummonCreature(var, orig)
        if creatureId ~= false then
            local monster = Monster(creatureId)
            monster:setMaster(player)
            orig:sendMagicEffect(CONST_ME_MAGIC_RED)
        end
end

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks guys,
Michael

 

[Evan]

What exactly is your var supposed to be?

 

[Michael Orsino]

You will have to forgive me, I don't really understand how exactly spell scripts work
I was hoping var would be the parameter of utevo res "

e.g. player casting " utevo res "rat" " would call this script and interpret the spell parameter (being "rat") correctly

Thanks for taking an interest in any case

 

[Ninja]

You would have to use Variant.getString for it to recognize rat in this case.

Try this: http://pastebin.com/hCuvecFZ (it's based on InstantSpell::SummonMonster)

 

[Michael Orsino]

That seems to work perfectly Ninja, thank you very much
If you care to, I would suggest you create a pull request on github (though you would probably want to deprecate the current summon function unless creatures call it?)

Thanks again, that was a great help!