Launching into Spells

It's time. I'm about to start the framework code for the biggest modification needed before pre-beta: fixing spells and the client-server interaction. Wish me luck.

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Finally! I think I've laid out a system that can handle some pretty sweet stuff:

Flying - gas form, flying mounts--you name it.

Falling down a pit

Swimming

Casting single spells, multi-stage spells (teleport to projectile, create wall from A to B, etc), multi-part spells (shoot off multiple waves of fireballs), periodic AOEs (poison gas cloud) and portals

Attack Run

Leap - jump from your point to somewhere else, over any pits/obstacles in the way

Charge - run at target coordinates and bash people out of the way, doing damage with your shield

Dying / resurrecting

On-death effects - recharge HP/MP, return to primary mark, etc.

Changing form into something else - a kind of monster or imitating another player, for example

Enchantments and Buffs - I made a distinction here that an enchantment is something permanent with a visualization and an icon that expires via timeout, replacement or disenchantment only and has the same strength throughout, whereas a buff is something that you can cast multiple times on a single actor, has no visualization other than the casting one, does have an icon and decays down to nothing in all cases.

Examples:

Poison - buff

Armor - buff or enchantment, depending on type

Weapon damage - buff

turn to fireball - enchantment

add melee damage - buff

increase hp regen - buff