DSB Version 0.78

[Sophia]

What's new:

- Added on_see_party event when a monster spots the party
- Added on_frighten event when a monster is scared away
- Added support for custom damage types to be shown via damage popup
- Added other_side graphics for flooritems and flooruprights
- Added volume control (via vol exvar) to ambient sound objects
- Added dsb_bitmap_clear_alpha to clear a bitmap to a given alpha value
- Fixed the eot_te queue bug
- Fixed handling of clickzones with multidraw wallitems
- Fixed some rendering functions to work on bitmaps with alpha transparency
- Fixed the damage of daggers and axes to be more accurate to DM
- Fixed various flaws in the attack power formula in order to be more like DM
- Fixed a minor bug in spell power attenuation
- Fixed errors when opening and closing a door with custom sounds

Download it here

[Gambit37]

Awesome, thank you so much for for all these updates. I already tried the window spell and it works great! Looking forward to sorting out all the other bits and bobs...

[Gambit37]

I discovered a side effect of the multidraw fix is that I can no longer send messages from one of the multidraw items to another. But don't worry, I don't need a fix for that: I found another way of doing what I wanted, and I know what I'm doing is pretty unusual (no other DSB dungeon designer would be likely to need this feature).

[Sophia]

I don't know what you mean by that. The only thing I changed was how multidraw wallitems handle clickzones.

[Gambit37]

It's no big deal: one of the multidraw items could previously send a M_DESTROY message to the other multidraw item on the same tile. It worked in all previous versions, but it doesn't in 0.78. Same for dsb_delete() -- nothing happens. But don't worry about it, I found a different solution.

[Sophia]

I just tested, and multidraw wallitems can still send destroy messages to other multidraw wallitems on the same tile, and the targeted item is indeed destroyed. So I'm not sure what was going wrong but it's not that.

So, yeah, I don't know either. Let me know if you run into a reproducible issue, though.

[Gambit37]

It was my modified mirror_clicks function, with this modified part within it. I've commented out the two functions that no longer work, and instead I swap to a null wallitem with blank graphics. (Obviously I wouldn't use both a destroy msg and a delete on the same item, that's just from testing).

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dsb_offer_champion(inside, offer_mode, function ()
	GVARS.partySize = GVARS.partySize + 1
	offered = true
	exvar[id].champion = nil
	got_triggered(id, nil)
	local_sound(id, snd.mirror_wake)
	dsb_qswap(id, "mirror_used")
	local tilecontents = dsb_fetch(l, x, y, d)
	for x=1,#(tilecontents) do
		local arch = dsb_find_arch(tilecontents[x])
		if (arch == obj.mirror_sparks) then
			-- dsb_msg(0, tilecontents[x], M_DESTROY, 0)
			-- dsb_delete(tilecontents[x])
			dsb_qswap(tilecontents[x], "null")
		end
	end
end)

[Sophia]

Ok, thanks, I could reproduce it this time and it was actually a symptom of a pretty serious problem with the message queues. I've replaced the DSB 0.78 download, so please download it again to get the fix. Your old code should work fine now.

[Joramun]

Just saw the set current position option. Made my day.

[Gambit37]

Yeah, I noticed this but haven't noticed what it's useful for? How is it different to Set Party Start position?

[Sophia]

If you've invoked DSB via ESB, you can move the "current position" around in ESB and your position in DSB will jump around accordingly.

[Stingm]

Thanks for all the hard work Sophia.

[Gambit37]

Ok, thanks, I could reproduce it this time and it was actually a symptom of a pretty serious problem with the message queues. I've replaced the DSB 0.78 download, so please download it again to get the fix. Your old code should work fine now.

Awesome, thank you, yes that works fine now.

If you've invoked DSB via ESB, you can move the "current position" around in ESB and your position in DSB will jump around accordingly.

Aha! I've not really used this new mode much, this feature will really help with that. Fantastic

[Seriously Unserious]

I've been gone for years, glad to see so many of the old guard still here, and to see you still hard at work on DSB. Hopefully it works well on Win 10, I'd like to get back into the DM games as much as time allows, and with Christmas coming up soon, I'll probably have a little extra time for games for a while at least.

[Sophia]

My development PC runs Windows 10 so it should work fine!

[Seriously Unserious]

That's good news.

Man, it's been so long, I've missed everyone here.