[Magiclysm/Xedra Evolved] Animals can't do that

[Standing-Storm]

Summary

Mods "[Magiclysm/Xedra Evolved] Animals can't do that"

Purpose of change

I've been adding a lot of ability to shapechange into various animals in different mods and part of my goal is reasonable restrictions on what those animals can do. Code support will have to wait for limbification, but in the meantime, u_cancel_activity can cover a lot of things.

Describe the solution

Add an EoC that runs u_cancel_activity shortly after starting a huge variety of activities. You shouldn't be able to hack a computer as an owl, you shouldn't be able to chop logs as a cougar, you shouldn't be able to plant seeds as a deer, and so on.

Picking up items is tricky. I was originally thinking of allowing wield but banning wear and pick up (with the idea that you can carry one thing in your mouth), but since limbs are abstract and there's nothing stopping you from transferring the item into your bag once you pick it up, I banned wield too. I may change my mind if I can figure out how to force you to keep it in your mouth once you pick it up, or if banning ACT_INSERT_ITEM turns out to ban moving it around your inventory too.

While writing this I had the idea of making everything in your inventory SEMITANGIBLE and greatly reducing your carrying capacity based on form, but that's a big change so it would have to be another PR, and also I think SEMITANGIBLE only affects encumbrance and not weight so it might not work at all.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

Makes things much better but doesn't solve all problems--the part above about wear/wield shouldn't be planned around since whether you can pick up/drop/wear/wield is inconsistent. Most of the time it stops you, but at least once I was able to put on an emergency blanket (quite the feat as a deer). Still, much better than before. I wasn't able to drive a car, apply a bandage, or move furniture, so the easy solution is to use the forms as they were designed for (movement/combat) and transform back if you want opposable thumbs.

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