This directory includes some scripts I wrote to update various archetypes
with certain new values.
These scripts were written to get the job done - they are certainly not
in the best style. In many cases, the same script was modified for a new
purpose, so the variable names reflect the individual script purpose.
Most all of them take a list of files to work on. You can typically
do something like script.pl *.arc */*.arc */*/*.arc, etc to update
a large number of files at once.
Mark Wedel
July 2002
update_armor.pl: Replaces the last_heal variables with gen_sp_armour.
Note that this doesn't look at object type, and just does a straight
replacement, so should only be run against armor .arc files.
update_body.pl: Adds appropriate body_.. to equipment objects. It
looks at the type of equipment it is to determine what body locations
to add.
update_monster.pl: Looks at the various can_use... flags and forms
body information for the object.
update_object.pl: Used to add the name_pl and client_type fields to
the objects. The first parameter to this script is the client
type to set to, the rest of the parameters are the files to operate on.
update_shield.pl: add can_use_shield values to players/monsters.
Basically, it takes the value of can_use_armor and duplicates it for
can_use_shield. Doesn't care about object type.
updatearch: This is a shell script which is a bit different - basically,
you provide a perl expression as its parameter, and it runs this
against all the .arc files in the directory you run it in - example:
updatearch 's/armor/prot_phys/' will make the substitution.
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