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Alfador

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Creature corpse -> another creature?
« on: November 29, 2007, 06:40:00 pm »
Is it possible to use the ITEMCORPSE tag in a creature to drop another living creature? I had the idea that this could be used for multi-part boss-esque monsters, that just when you think you've killed them, shed their former husk to be a new more powerful thing, or a demon-possessed villager or creature that, when defeated, spawns the "original" benign creature.

Goes without saying I don't expect things as fancy as, say, lopped off limbs translating to the "dropped creature" or decapitations killing both. Heck, it worked for Xinchub...

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Wiles

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Re: Creature corpse -> another creature?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2007, 06:48:00 pm »
There was a similar thread before. I have never attempted myself, so I couldn't tell you.  :)

[ November 29, 2007: Message edited by: Wiles ]

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InquisitiveIdiot

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Re: Creature corpse -> another creature?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2007, 07:02:00 pm »
I don't think so, I'm afraid.  A more general solution, if you won't mind a bit of modification to your suggestion, would be to have units spawnable as items, or at least placeholder items that can "hatch" into new units.
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