Scripter's Needed for Wizard Wands

Alright. I'm on a Harry Potter kick as of late. As a reflection of that, I've begun designing wands based on the ones used in the movies. However, I'm interested in more than just a nice looking attatchment. I want wands that will actually DO something, and seeing as I can't script to save my life, I'm asking that anyone who CAN, and is interested, to let me know.

The idea is, basically, to put multiple scrips into a wand I've designed... scripts that are activated by saying key words (i.e., mimicing the way spells work in Rowling's fantastic stories). This pretty much means that it's a gun that fires off different images and particle effects when given the appropriate "verbal" commands.

Now, I don't know how scripts work, so I don't know if this is even possible (if not, I'll just have to make a series of wands that do different things, though I DO have my heart set on the verbal command thing...).

I plan on selling these wands, and whoever does the scripting will get at least half (if not more) of the amount for each one that gets bought... plus a fee for his or her hard work, but that's something the scripter(s) and I will work out later, not here.

So, whoever's interested, just let me know...

*meekly raises hand* Interested.

However, I'm still a very new scripter, so, I may not be able to do a great job, I'd LOVE to attempt it!

Hey, I'll take all the help I can get. This may actually require the work of several scripters, so... yeah.

I'm still combing through the books to find things that can be reasonably scripted.

So far, the effects I think will be plausible are -

ORCHIDEOUS - causes flowers to sprout from the tip of the wand
AVIS - causes a bird to shoot out from the wand
MORSMORDE - conjures a phantom green image of a skull with a snake coming out of it's mouth
SERPENSORTIA - causes a snake to shoot out from the wand
INCENDIO - causes wand to emit a jet of flame
LUMOS - makes the tip of the wand light up, like a magical lantern
EXPECTO PATRONUM - conjures a phantom image of a guardian or spirit animal (theoretically different wands would be created for different patronuses)

Also, for PVP areas, I thought of
PETRIFICUS TOTALUS - freezes opponent (I vaguely remember hearing that this was possible to script from someone)
AVADA KEDAVRA - causes instant death

That's all I've got so far, but like I said, I'm still digging. And as always, anyone who's willing to help out with one or more of these please let me know, either here or in game.

Most of the effects could definately be achieved through either having the wand rez the object or just using the particle system. The PVP effects would be a bit more complex, requiring things like an encapslating sphere and some form a seeking bullet... but still doable... which brings me to a thought:

How about coding in wizard dual bits into them? There could be a series of various attack tatics that could also be countered by defensive measures. Each wand could have various aspects inwhich it is strong at (i.e. depending what it is made out of, a wand of a pheonix for example could be superior at fire based attecks, etc.). Each wand could have a set amount of "power" and a set regard time. Each spell would consume a certain amount of this power. I could see a quite facinating game develop from this, and if others are interested in expanding Parker's idea into this, I would definately be interested in contributing my scripting skills.

I would like to buy one please put me on your list.

The seeking bullet can be achieved using a sensor to grab the target's key...

You can probably use TeleportAgentHome to simulate instant death, as that's all that dieing does anyway... but it will only work on the owners land... not even on group land (believe me, I tried)

Sio

Don't forget to check out the MMORPG Toolkit! It's there for this!!!!

The INCENDIO flame thing sounds cool (have a particle system similar to it). Actually all of it sounds good.

James want any help? (If I have time, but I think I do since Neo Tokyo isn't really starting yet.)

Ok, while I like Alondria's idea of wizard duels, I dont want to get too far away from the original idea... which was, largely, to make a fun toy. Again, if we could cover both of these aspects that would be great... then again we could always manufacture a seperate set of wands specifically designed for dueling... but I also don't want to drift away from the world of Harry Potter, so I'd like to try and avoid spells that aren't directly from there...

Oh, and before I forget, AVADA KEDAVRA does the deed by producing a bolt or stream of green energy...

So, while I agree that most of these could be done with particle effects, some of them might actually require objects to be rezzed... I can MAKE the objects, if need be (in fact, I'd be happy to), I just don't have the proper intelligence it takes to script to make it come out.

And again, if we could get all of this to work by verbal command, that would be SO COOL.

So, anyone interested in doing this just IM me in game or leave me a post here to let me know what YOU'LL need from ME.

This shouldn't be too hard, since we have the llListen command. All we'd need to do is set up Listen command and when it hears a specific command, it will trigger a particle system, as well as whatever other code is necessary (ex: killing nearest avatar).

I have no experience with particle systems, so, yes, I will need some help!

I really like this idea Parker!

I have a lumonosity charm script, but it's really simple. All it does is rez a bunch of somewhat large, phantom, invisible, light material spheres that follow the owner around. You may want to try that for your "LUMOS" spell.

That would be VERY helpful, Darwin. I think thats basically all that's needed... people to offer particle affects for the particular spells that will need them. In the mean time I'll be attempting to create objects for one or two of the spells, to begin testing.

i'm interested. you apparently already have a market. you can contact me by emailing [email]khamon@sakoia.net[/email] or via im. btw, the wand will need to derez objects it produces or the owner will end up with taxable stuff everywhere. i think.

I have the flame thing basically done, just so nobody duplicates any work.

Sure, I'm interested!