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In my opinion fireball wasn`t well balanced; it costs too less comparing to the results..

indeed it works! Sorry for that Sophia, it`s me who messed up..

Here's a quick and dirty workaround. Find the function perform_item_action in msg_handlers.lua (around line 940-something) and find the following line: (...) operand = dsb_spawn(new_arch, lev, xc, yc, pos) Replace it with: (...) operand = dsb_spawn(new_arch, LIMBO, 0, 0, 0) I'll come up with a bett...

Dynamicly changing arch classes in the editor - as it is in CSbuild - would be great; now when you want to change, say, a hook to manacles, or anything else, you must delete the whole object with all its contents - messages, targets and inside stuff - and make a new one adding the same messages to t...

how can I add custom DECO objects into DSB? I decided not to modify any lua files in base folder, left everything as it was written by Sophia and make my eventual modifications in my own folder leaving the BASE unchanged. I made several customs (actually, a fountains, which I wanted to use as a deco...

a third of German players are Turks, another third are Poles Actually, it`s 2 players that has turkish roots and 3 players that has polish roots. So Poles and Turks are together 22.73% (13.63% + 9.1%) of the team, not two thirds (66.6%). I love the way the Germany plays and look on them! I hope the...

They are german citizens, aren`t they? It`s the citizenship that counts, not the nationality.
In the final Germany will meet with Holland.

thanx!!!
When you have two short alcoves (_top and _bottom) in the same place, how would item_action know which target to pick? Or it takes a specified target randomly?

Say the hook likes to eat corn. For every 3 corns it grants you one cheese in the alcove_short_bottom nearby. How to do that? There are two problems: - objects can be teleported, or moved, only to the regular alcoves. But objects like cheese cannot be moved to alcove_short_bottom and alcove_short_to...

this guy is truly sick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvmSSOfsiU

ok, I checked out the "youcky water" case in the demo and I got the point. But what if I want to limit the activity of qswapper to X (say it`s four) swaps? I added another message sent from the manacles ("ACTIVATE") for a counter, wchich destroys the qswapper when neutralized. Wh...

Could you add "reverse target line direction" button to ESB, as it is in CSbuild? It would be helpfull. ....................... oofff... Finally I understood how counters works. Activating a counter SUBSTRACTS one point from its count value, while deactivating ADDS one!!! I thought it was ...

thanx Sophia! ESB is still a kind of black magic to me!

How to make a manacle, that swaps, say, cheese to corn?
It`s just an example, but I`m trying to understand how to build such swapper.

I designed a DSA who commits suicide under certain low conditions of its own mental state.

that`d be just great! I suppose the whole maleficient guild would commit group suicide right after ressurection seeing how treir low states are?

I use to zoom while using DSB ("double zoom" option). I noticed that sometimes, when I switch back to a "normal zoom", the editor switches off and I get the message "ERROR: Could not load: editor/cells.pcx". That`s disturbing, because when ESB crashes, you loose all uns...

Which clone do you use Biffo? This thread should be moved to priopriate place.

Sophia wrote: Doorbuttons don't use the normal opby system so they're unfortunately not that easy to make work once only like most floor triggers and buttons. I'm not quite sure what use it'd be to disable some of the mechanics archs like this... I tried to change a destination of the DOORBUTTON fro...

I noticed one more: I assume open door are in ACTIVE state, while closed door are in INACTIVE state. But when you change a message sent by a doorbutton from "toggle" (currently opposite state, which is either activate or deactivate) to "deactivate", it will work just like it stil...

Qwerty, what I mean is I need a trigger, that operates OO (once_only). For example a doorbutton: you add special "OO" exvar and the doorbutton will work only once and won`t work any more later. For example: if you operate doorbutton with OO flag when the door are closed, the only thing you...

how to add the "x_relay" trigger? It`s not in FLOOR FLATS/MECHANICS section

what if I want to build a counter, or any trigger, that works ONCE ONLY? I used to do like that in CSbuild, because there was special "OO" option. I noticed, that adding "disable_self" or "destroy" exvars doesn`t work that way. Sorry my questions are stupid, but it`s ha...

"delay" option for a "doorbutton" trigger doesn`t work; when I set it to non-zero value, it always neutralizes. Do I have to add a delay using an exwar?

EDIT: it works, it`s my that messed up. Sorry for a wrong report.

"ghost" doesn`t activate floortext (as party does).

How does exactly luck skill works in DSB and CSBwin? When I opened Joramund`s DM in ESB, I noticed that "luck" value is always set to 40 (400) for all characters. Is that proper? For what I know from Encyclopedia, these values differs for many characters: from 25 for Boris (actually 35, be...

Hi Paul! Is the Encyclopedia version of ToC the newest one ( v3.2 )? If not, where can I download the newest ToC version? (I`m not sure if I write in a proper place; I only took links from the "list of custom dungeons" thread). => I entered a "list of custom dungeons" at the &quo...

Sophia, you`re a geniuos! I took a look deeper and I`m impressed with your editor. It took a while for me to figure out how it works (I used to work on Paul`s editor so far), but I`m slowly starting to get it. Opby, spin... It`s as good as CSbuild. Great work!!

Bumped. This tool is great, maybe it will be usefull for dungeon designers.

What is the password to "graphics2.dat"?

I found a bug while playing Sophia`s demo: when I try to throw away a "capturer" with captured monster (screamer), an error occures: "Lua Function sys_mouse_throw: base/util.lua: 103 attempt to perform arithmetic on field "mass" (a nil value)" ...and the game crashes. W...