Entry 171

"ccEnemyL: the snakoids, wyrms and dragons"

2026-09-26world

Filescrates/piney-battle/src/races.rscrates/piney-battle/src/enemy_motion.rscrates/piney-battle/src/enemy_ai.rscrates/piney-battle/examples/battle_probe/spawn.rscrates/piney-battle/examples/battle_probe/enemy_motion.rstools/test_battle_spawn_rs.pytools/test_battle_enemy_motion_rs.py

ccEnemyL (race 14, rows 193-217) was the last race standing still after worklogs 0168 and 0169. The Delta server's lists register two of its rows: Snakoid (194, from rank 29) and Red Wyrm (199, from rank 56). Dragon Puppy (193) is its drained form. docs/engine/battle.md has the rules.

What is ported:

• The constructor for types 0, 1, 2 and 4. Types 2 and 4 make a breath from elBrInfo. Every type draws ccRandS four times into +0x390, for the type 3's colours. Those draws move the generator that the gold goblins' checkGold also draws, so they are kept (Enemy::l_rand).
• moveEL for the snakoids, moveEL2 for the wyrms and dragons. The wyrm and dragon attack follows the target's heading with or without a target.
• exclusive(): the wyrms' breath, and the dragons' rise and their two breaths. Call::BreathSet now carries the breath's parameter row.

What is not. Type 3 (rows 203-206, named "AAAAAAA" to "DDDDDDD" in the table) stays unported. Its constructor runs initELG, which disables interrupts in eemu. It moves by moveELG, draws itself through dispELG with its own lights, scaling, colour and texture animation, and clears dispSW every frame. No list registers it. construct returns None for those rows (the seam's bare initEnemy).

The harnesses:

• The spawn harness knows L's object size (0x3b0), hooks ccDestEnemyL (whose delLight crashed the interpreter on a dragon's removal) and records breaths by their info.
• The motion harness carries a breath flag per enemy, keeps L's random types to 0, 1, 2 and 4, and keeps rows 203-206 out of its extra enemies.

Results, all equal:

• race: 300 cases (299 rows).
• The motion harness: action, excl and note 800 cases each, main 500.
• frame_enemies: 150 cases.