API reference

The library’s namespaces, each with what it is for.

Namespace
dao	Everything in DAOLib: the game’s classes and the library’s parts, each in a namespace of its own.
dao::abilities	Abilities: their names, whether a creature can use one now and what it costs, and cooldowns.
dao::animation	How long animations, attacks and abilities take a creature to play.
dao::atmosphere
dao::attack	Melee and ranged attacks: reach, the approach to a target, turning to face it.
dao::audio
dao::board
dao::camera	Smooth camera moves: panning to a creature, turning behind it, easing the zoom.
dao::chargen
dao::clock	Pause or speed up the game’s clock for effects, regeneration and their timers.
dao::commands	A creature’s commands: when they start and end, the steps they run, and holding a spell’s conjure.
dao::commands::subaction
dao::crafting
dao::creatures
dao::damage
dao::data	The game’s data tree, the named values its interface reads and writes.
dao::dialogue	Conversations, cutscenes and movies: watch them, steer which replies appear, skip them.
dao::effects	Temporary effects: list them on a creature, stop them wearing off, age them at once.
dao::equipment	Hear when equipment goes on or comes off a creature.
dao::events	The scripts’ events (damage, perception, death and the rest), as callbacks.
dao::framebuffer
dao::gda	The game’s data tables (2DA/GDA): read a value by table, row and column.
dao::gui	The Flash interface: answer movies’ calls into the game, call into movies, add screens.
dao::input	Key bindings of a plugin’s own, and pointing the game’s cursor pick at a pixel.
dao::items
dao::journal	The journal’s quests, current and completed.
dao::levelup
dao::lights
dao::loot
dao::messages	The engine’s messages: watch, intercept or send them.
dao::modes
dao::Module	The running game executable, and turning the library’s address IDs into addresses in it.
dao::objects
dao::options	A plugin’s own settings in the game’s options screen.
dao::orders	Give orders as the player’s clicks do: attack, use, cast, move.
dao::party	The party: who is selected and who the player controls.
dao::partypicker
dao::portraits	Frame a creature’s portrait with a camera of your own.
dao::render
dao::resources	Read a file as the game finds it, a mod’s version over the game’s.
dao::saves	A plugin’s own data kept with the game’s saves; listing saves, and saving or loading.
dao::scene
dao::screenshot
dao::script	Script commands from C++: call them, intercept them, replace them or add new ones.
dao::store
dao::strings	A plugin’s own text in the player’s language, from talk tables beside its DLL.
dao::tactics
dao::timers	The scripts’ delayed events: hold them, deliver them on a clock of your own, trace them.
dao::tlk	The game’s own text by string reference, in the player’s language.
dao::vfx	Draw in the world with the game’s visual effects: rings, reticles, any effect by row.
dao::world	The world’s geometry: rays, line of sight, screen positions, paths and rooms.
dao::world::groups	The collision groups a ray can be tested against.
dao::worldmap