Dungeon Master Forum

I believe that sys_everyone_dead would be more useful at intercepting a party "wipeout"... make something special happen (like revive everyone and tick down a counter, when the counter reaches 0 then don't revive them... would work like "extra lives") As you said, sadly, there's ...

While testing my dungeon, I've noticed that when all party members die, it goes to the "The End" screen. Which is what is expected. But, could the "The End" screen have 2 buttons (instead of simply waiting for a click before quitting)... 1 button that says "Restart", wh...

I've noticed that when doing dsb_move inside an on_fly method, it can result in a "segmentation fault" for some reason :? local check = dsb_fetch(CHARACTER, who, INV_R_HAND, 0) if (not check) then dsb_write({255,255,255}, who.." CAUGHT OBJECT "..id); dsb_move(id, CHARACTER, who, ...

@Gambit: If "dungeon" is considered a common word, then I'd reset it like you did for "story" above.

Anybody got any ideas when to expect Raixel back?

Question: How do I check if a character's hands are empty? Can a put a flying item into a character's hand (imitating a "catch"), if so how?

Get a large piece of cardboard. Color it black. Cut out a rectangle, in the middle of the cardboard, the size of the game's image on your monitor. Tape the cardboard onto the front of your monitor with the game's image centered in the centered hole in the cardboard. Bingo! I couldn't help but burst...

All I'd like to see in ESB now is simply a graphical representation of the things that I place in the dungeon: that's the thing that's really missing. I can't always remember what pillar1 might be vs, pillar2 so to be able to quickly see the front view of any given arch would be a godsend. But, the...

@Gambit: I have to wander, if you had a built-in graphics editor in ESB right from the very start, would you still feel the same way? If it did all the work for you (like RTC does with it's dungeon file)? I know that I would love such a feature in ESB... it'd really improve the editor (and probably...

Speaking of the "top bar stuff"... it seems that the health/stamina/mana bars actually go a bit passed zero on the bar (the bar seems to invert at about 6-7%)

No problems. The previous download was May 12th 2011... so a few more days won't hurt

1st Suggestion: Could graphics.lua be an automatic include (like objects.lua ... it doesn't need to be in the lua_manifest )? If graphics.lua was automatic, wouldn't it be easier to find a way for ESB to load custom graphics... graphics.lua is where ESB expects to find all your custom graphics, jus...

1st hiccup in numerous years = "pretty damn good" in my opinion

Fair point! Something tells me people would notice...

So that means that both RTC and DSB can't be searched for? Bummer. I can see 1 major weakness to the "common word" approach... if someone were to bombard the forum with posts containing nothing but "break break break" etc... then the "common word" tactic would block the...

Glad the search is fixed. Sounds like a fair job you've got ahead of you there Gambit... wish you the best of luck

I play DSB with a non-standard key configuration, and while configuring my keys I noticed that the "Next/Prev Leader" key binding doesn't work. I've got my numpad configured such that 2/8 swap the current leader's subtile position N/S and 4/6 swaps E/W (great for dodging projectiles with o...

I've noticed that this thread hasn't been updated since December 4th 2011... Thought I'd make some requests of my own. I've noticed that ESB does use certain icons for the "dungeon-view". Is it at all possible to have these icons next to the object in the object-list? Or have the icon show...

If there's no way to set the value, I'm taking it that there's no way to get it either (cause that's all I need).

Cool. Thanx Sophia!

That seems to be quite accurate. Accomplishing almost anything in RTC requires thoughts, like "this connects to that, which connects to something else, then something else again". Having to think like this is at times quite complex... and it's the main drawback of RTC: the length of time i...

Yet another question... when using the on_fly method, the flytimer value seems to decrease by a variable amount, depending on the skill level of the throwing character. Sometimes it decreases at 10 per tick (like when a n00b throws stuff), and sometimes decreases at 5 (archmaster ninja). Is there a ...

The COLORFADE distortion seems to remember a certain number of frames behind the current 1, and then blurs the frames together... looks a lot like the basic form of motion blur. In this case, "reducing the blur" would mean reducing the number of frames that it remembers. The distortion see...

I believe that I know what you're talking about, and I have to admit that it's a small part of the original DM dungeon... but, given the difficulty of this dungeon, it'd become commonplace. Now, that could become a very repetitive problem. I don't believe that it's "fun" when you have to k...

Found that too, when I was playing Aurek.

Another question: I like the COLORFADE distortion, but is there a way to reduce the amount of blurring?

Good to know. Wasn't sure if I should post it as a proper bug-report, or (because it is related to the question I was asking here) if I should ask it here. Keep up the good work.

That was my thinking too... thus, I'm surprised Raixel never threw a question or 2 from the lizards about it.

@Ebeneezergude: LOL! And hello!

@Magica: Hello!

And LOL to 40+ and 60+ posts before saying "hello"

Yeah, but starting with Chaos in the party is too easy... make the player earn him though hours of pain-staking goody-goody killing