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register_type{ [PrimaryBaseType [, SecondaryBaseType [, ...]]];
   name = "TypeName",
   namespace = Namespace,
   [attribs = { }],
   [alerts = { alert_name = alert_function }],
   [profile = { }]
}

This will create a type named "TypeName" derived from "PrimaryBaseType" and "SecondaryBaseType" in the namespace "Namespace" (see ZippyNamespaces). The type may optionally have class variables (in the "attribs" sub-table), alert handlers (in the "alerts" sub-table), and a profile (in the "profile" sub-table).

An actual character may be spawned with the following syntax:

Namespace.Typename(x, y, z, name, team, skin_name, starting_life, is_player [, extras])

x, y, z

The position of the new character. These may be replaced with "Vector{x, y, z}" or a single vector-value.

name

The name of the character, or nil for a randomly-generated name.

team

The team to which the charcter belongs (see ZippyTeams).

skin_name

A string identifying the starting skin of the character.

starting_life

The starting life of the character, or -1 to indicate maximum life.

is_player

nil for NPCs and items, non-nil for characters that will be controlled by a human player.

extras

any extra arguments will be passed along to the type constructor (see ZippyCharacterTypeVars).

-- ElminI - 29 Jan 2004