monsters in sql?

[muphet]

Hi there,

I have question about monster.
Is it possible to fetch monster's data directly from sql database using lua function (no server configuration)? Or if not - hot to attempt to make this?
It's even easier way to manage monsters etc. (and makes new possibilities)

 

[TGYoshi]

For sure possible, not too hard as well.
You can use Lua to parse stuff from the DB to all those different monster files (generating xml files..), and generating a monsters.xml file.
Loading from the database, without writing them to files first, requires source changes, so that's not possible with Lua itself.

If you have some sample bit of tables that contain monster information I might throw a try on it.