Yet another change to monster speech and silencing...

I found my previous change to block all messages passed 
through MSGCH_TALK when silenced was too restrictive, so
I've added another channel MSGCH_TALK_VISUAL and adapted the
monster speech files accordingly. For example, imps can now
also "talk" when silenced, but only the visual stuff will
actually be output. (This automatically takes care of 
lowering the output likelihood.) And no, this doesn't hurt 
any, as visual talk also won't interrupt travel or resting.

And I added a how-to file on monster speech, which was the
main reason for my silence during the last couple of hours. 
It's not that the database system is that complicated but it 
surely can't hurt to give players who want to add something 
an idea of what is possible and how to go about it.


git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@2108 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/message.cc b/crawl-ref/source/message.cc
index 49a92b0f9d..c09c1056b1 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/message.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/message.cc
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ int channel_to_colour( msg_channel_type channel, int param )
             break;
 
         case MSGCH_TALK:
+        case MSGCH_TALK_VISUAL:
             ret = WHITE;
             break;
 
@@ -485,7 +486,8 @@ static void mpr_check_patterns(const std::string& message,
 
     // reusing travel_stop_message here
     if (channel != MSGCH_DIAGNOSTICS && channel != MSGCH_EQUIPMENT
-        && channel != MSGCH_SOUND && channel != MSGCH_TALK)
+        && channel != MSGCH_TALK && channel != MSGCH_TALK_VISUAL
+        && channel != MSGCH_SOUND)
     {
         interrupt_activity( AI_MESSAGE, channel_to_str(channel) + ":" + message );
     }