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In addition to Gambit's suggestion I can think of two other ways. 1) You could make a floorflat and place it on the neighbouring squares; or 2) You could make a wallitem on the neighbouring squares that has a heavily-offset graphic. The secret of making it work, in either case, is to make the graphi...

Terkio's post in the other forum prompted me to come back to this thread. Gosh, Escape 3 has suddenly got popular! I released the demo four years ago and it didn't seem to attract much interest at the time. Now it's got some people playing it! Thank you all for your kind words. I've discovered that ...

I'll reply in that thread.

No, I'm sorry: I'm afraid I've misinformed you. Apparently I no longer have that file.

Yes, I have a more up to date version on my computer at home, but it'll be a few more days before I can post it I'm afraid.

Yes, I feel like that as well. DSB has a learning curve but once you start to grok it, it's made of pure, 24-carat awesome.

Create flying_creature and walking_creature as separate monsters and have triggers or attack modes that swap them?

Okay, I'm now officially intrigued to see what interface Gambit is in the process of cooking up.

At this rate we're not far short of being able to clone Eye of the Beholder with the DSB engine.

Yup: that's a substantial conceptual problem. :) I suppose I'd have to try copy/pasting method_heal and tweaking it. The original function used who , but if I change some of those to foo , then I get:- function method_heal_party(name, ppos, who, what) local m = lookup_method_info(name, what) if (not...

I haven't tested this, just written it out in the text window. Would this work?

Golly gosh wow. New toys!

Incidentally, in lieu of a tutorial for anyone who needs one, here's an example.

mfi_wallset v0.1

Ah! It's always so simple. Thank you very much.

Is there a way to change staircases and pits in association with a particular wallset, or should I just clone a pit and a staircase?

Nope, looks like I was overconfident there. The syntax is fooling me somehow. What I wrote was:- startup.lua lua_manifest = { "wallset.lua" } wallset.lua gfx.floor = dsb_get_bitmap("floor", "wallset/floor.png") gfx.roof = dsb_get_bitmap("roof", "wallset/r...

What kind of a wallset tutorial? Wallsets seem to be some sort of a mystery but, basically, I don't understand what people don't understand. dsb_make_wallset_ext has a mess of parameters, I admit, but it's already documented on the wiki... The knowledge that there's a command called dsb_make_wallse...

Please could we have a wallset tutorial?

Aye. There's a DM2-style bag in it. In mfi_dungeon, go to objects.lua and scroll down past all the monsters. Starting at line 2375 there's a list of "things", and the bag's the first one. I'll put the code here for you:- obj.bag = clone_arch(obj.chest, { name="BAG", mass=35, icon...

Thanks, Amber. I haven't been able to find anything that was broken by the new version.

Editing is certainly a great deal easier for me now.

You'll find an example of a custom sub-renderer in my code library too.

Quick! Release 0.50 so as to break the curse!

CLANG!

... and I've created a library of alternative graphics that people can download and work from. There are a few bits of code in there as well, to allow underwater levels and monsters that turn you to stone, but you can disregard those without any problems at all.

Ah! Everything becomes clear. Thank you!

Okay, thanks. Is there a way to do it without editing base/global.lua? A custom dungeon really shouldn't change the base code.

Hmm... when I release a prisoner it still says, "%NAME RESURRECTED" at the bottom of the screen. Can I make it say, "%NAME RELEASED"?

Thank you very much, that's working as intended now.

Thank you, Amber. I've created a new option_res.png, and I've added it into my graphics.lua in the usual way:
This doesn't seem to have changed anything. Have I missed a step?

Thanks

Hmm. When someone clicks on one of the "prisoners" in this dungeon, they can release the prisoner, adding a character to the party. This is just called "resurrection" at the moment. What I want to do is change where it says "resurrect" to "release". But this s...

Version 0.2's done. Get it here.

Changes:-

• 2 new monsters
• 1 new champion (prisoner-release version rather than a mirror)
• 3 new statues
• 1 new ceiling-hanging-thing
• Assorted minor code fixes

Thanks, Amber!