Dungeon Master Forum

OK, I now have a nice progress bar and text that runs between when you hit the start button and the dungeon door opening.

ESB still just locks up for 10 seconds or so though...

Since ESB doesn't load the full set of libraries and functions, it should* be possible to detect whether a dungeon is loading in ESB by checking the existence of those functions.

But that seems rather haphazard. Is there a 'proper' way to do this?

* haven't tested yet...

There is mounting evidence that my tolerance for your april fools ideas may be atypically high... 8-)

Thinking a bit more, I think I really need to rig it up so it only generates the dungeon when you start a new game.

I typically do the dungeon generation in ESB and save it off, largely because sitting through the random generation every time you start the exe would be madness inducing.

Yes, but I'm 75% sure it wasn't deliberate, so I thought I should point it out 8-)

Something I've seen a few times recently is a monster group turning just as one of the members launches a spell, causing it to go off it the wrong direction (or, in one instance, the wall). While my group can have similar results when trying to attack-then-sidestep too fast, I'm not sure the AI shou...

Thanks. And with that knowledge, I hacked in a temporary blueshield image that doesn't cover the same pixels as the fireshield 8-) But that leads me to another question: At what point are conditions actually set? I had to hack the base gfx. Tweaking the conditions table in my code didn't seem to do ...

Conditions.lua had a big overhaul of the conditions table setup from 0.71 to 0.72. I assume the corresponding c code changed extensively too.

In older versions, casting eg ya-ir and ful-bro-neta would get you an outline with a mix of blue and green dashes. In 0.78, you only get one type of protection showing. I believe both are still active (and if one times out, the other will be shown), but you can no longer tell by the display. Hmm. I ...

Going by objectsdata.c/~line1497 it certainly doesn't look like it. https://github.com/sparkletwist/DSB/blob/master/objectsdata.c A bunch of object types allow eg front_med and front_far graphics variants, but not monsters... Looks to me like the monster rendering code (render.c/~line1098) also spec...

By the way... what does the new version do if you get a character killed and then dsb_champion_fromparty the survivors? (The current version works for a while but segfaults if you change leader) FATAL LUA ERROR: Lua Function sys_render_magic: base/render.lua:214: dsb_get_charname requires int in par...

Thanks

The problem here, of course, is that whenever I get my party optimized to consist entirely of dead characters, the game stops responding and I get a blue screen.

blue screen

How hard would it be to add dungeon defined progress notes to the DSB loading screen and maybe the ESB status bar? I may be the only one who pushes it that far, but there is a quite noticeable delay while Probably Solvable initializes, so if I could put my "initializing map" "writing ...

While I'm submitting stuff anyway. ESB will happily load a file that isn't named dungeon.lua But if you try to test it, then the temporary file will be named something like notdungeon.lua.testing And then the DSB link will fail to find it. Either DSB should load whatever filename ESB uses, or ESB sh...

When a character dies, then the party leader is changed to someone else.

But there's nothing stopping you from changing it back again. And a dead party leader can interact and carry-in-mouse objects.

And (after some experimentation with a box full of boulders) has no burden limitations.

(edit window timed out) rhelper.c\call_lua_damage_renderer would be where things happen. Which I think means its not something you are going to be able to do from the lua side. (You probably aren't going to be able to modify it, but you may want to grab the DSB c source just so you can check this so...

If you are tweaking ESB, then one thing I found useful once you get to serious dungeon building is separately marking buttons and keyholes vs the other wall objects https://i.imgur.com/VBoeWNs.png ... I think that sys_render_character_damage just prepares the image for rendering that actually occurs...

Problem seems to be that sys_font is a special case and not a regular font. scroll_font and wall_font are created via dsb_get_font but sys_font just appears via black magic. (Or at least via a definition in dsb_lua.c)

const char *Lua_FontHandle = "sys_font";

the potion graphic should be a matter of imported via lua_manifest: gfx.new_flaskneta_floor = dsb_get_bitmap("path/to/image/file") imported via dsb_import_arch: obj.flask_neta.dungeon=gfx.new_flaskneta_floor note that you only want to change the "dungeon" property of the existing...

Its one of the libraries with Probably Solvable

Duplicating the sound file for each and every sound volume is about the worst solution one can imagine. In DM, and DSB I presume, the sound volume is based on distance. Distance at least is handled automatically so I was assuming only a few variations would be needed. So not a great solution, but v...

1. Would it be sufficient for your purposes to make a couple of copies of the original sound file at different volumes and swap them in as appropriate?

This is a bit late, but while you can't modify the dungeon contents mid game, you can tweak the dungeon *rules* mid game.
Rules that could include:
Whenever the party takes a step, screamer slice is spawned on the parties tile
or
The Des Ven spell hurls steak at your foes

Lets see if this lasts a bit longer:
https://www.megaupload.us/4m4/sconcelight.zip

Yeah, I need to find a better upload location...
https://www.megaupload.us/4m5/setitem.zip

If it hasn't fallen off the internet again, there should be an up-to-date version in with the probably solvable libraries

Your save is before fusing him, right? You dont have it saved with the grey lord sitting there?

If you add
__log("some text")
to the fuse hook does it turn up in the game logs?

OK, getting closer: I now have a .o file for each .c file

Had to make a minor tweak to cope with having lua5.2

Onwards to linking!

I'll give it a go. I was also vaguely considering commenting out enough code to get "Closed Captions Strikes Back" but this is a much better option 8-) Hmm. And it looks like theres linux versions of everything in the libraries list. But lets see if I can get a working (and documented) pro...