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@ZwPBerserk

May I ask why you're not just using wands?

@ZwPBerserk

Unfortunately not in the current build.

I could add such a thing- the main issue with it is that it's very inefficient to make this kind of thing permission based, permissions are not really meant for tracking player progress like this. The plugin will have to do 200+ permission checks every time a player opens this menu, just to figure out which spells they have access to.

Other than that, it wouldn't be too difficult to add.

@Capehenrykid

You can make spells that run commands. If the command can take a location parameter to spawn the mob, you can pass along the target location.

Alternately, some custom mob plugins register new entity types, so you may be able to spawn it as normal. Not sure what you had in mind.

@ZwPBerserk

I think that'd sort of work out, but you're right that I'd have to detect permissions skills and handle them separately somehow.

Like I'd have to know that it was a spell permission specifically, and if so show it in the mskills menu (I assume permissions skills are normally passive, which don't show up there)

I'd also have to know when you try to use a skill item for a permission skill, instead of calling /skill I'd have to figure out what spell the permission is intended for, and cast the spell instead.

Maybe all doable... not sure when I'd get to tinkering around with the Heroes stuff again, though, honestly!

@ZwPBerserk

Oh, I forgot about permissions skills- I think you could set something up with those to allow access to spells on level up, but it'd be kind of an awkward system.

And, no- the icon-url goes in your Heroes skills.yml, to be clear- something like this:

Fireball:
  use-text: §7[§2Skill§7] %hero% used %skill%!
  damage: 4
  damage-per-level: 0.0
  velocity-multiplier: 1.5
  fire-ticks: 100
  icon-url: http://i.imgur.com/tW9Uo6M.png

(That's an old example, imgur links don't really work anymore, but you get the idea)

You don't need to configure anything in Magic for the Heroes skills.

@ZwPBerserk

1. Not a stupid question, the Heroes integration could use some better documentation. To add a custom icon, add "icon-url: <url>" to your skills config. "icon: <item id>" also works for a normal item icon.

Note that, just like the spell icons, this URL must be hosted by Mojang (as of 1.8.6).

See here for more general info on the custom icons: https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/wiki/Icons

2. There's some info here on Essentials integration: https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/wiki/Integration

Basically it's "wand:<wand>" e.g. "wand:beginner" as an item name. This can be used on [Buy], [Free], [Sell] signs, kits, or anywhere else you'd use an item name with Essentials.

3. I would love for that to be possible, but the way that Heroes has structured their skills actually makes it very difficult. You would have to write some special code for every spell you want to turn into a Heroes skill.

I've gone as far as exploring using AspectJ to dynamically write this code for you, but I couldn't get that to work out.

It's a real shame, I'd actually love to use Heroes purely as a progression system, since I honestly prefer my spell system to their skill system - but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that.

@Sean_Amor

Argg - I had just recently fixed all that (again). Well thanks for the head's up!

@ZwPBerserk

Good question!

I don't think I ever fully implemented this in the /mmap command, but you can still use the "camera" spell. See the wiki, ImageMaps section, down under "cropping and scaling":

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/wiki/ImageMaps

Basically you want to cast the camera spell a few times with different cropping settings to get different areas of the image on the canvas.