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So if the IR rune is not available until level 7, how on earth am I supposed to get past those yellow one eye fireball chucking things on I think level 5 or 6? I just keep dying as soon as they hit me with one or two, and they keep regenerating.

They're also much tougher in RTC DM. In the ...

I set up an auto-firing rock cannon on level 25 or so. It happened to fire along a line that was a clear path to the exit in the hall of champions, so when I resurrected a character, they promptly took ten points of damage. The cannon was still firing when I teleported down to check on it (it would ...

If the party is vertically aligned with the path taken by a projectile from a shooter on a different level, they will take damage and the fired object will continue moving. This looks very strange, as there is no visible source of damage.

Do you mean ACTION_SWAP_TILE_LOCAL? What would ACTION_SWAP_TILE and ACTION_SWAP_TILE_INFRONT do?

Hm, I don't see that action. Is that done with a floor item, or a wall item?

Wall triggers can destroy the item that triggers them, but I don't see a simple way to do this for items on floor triggers. Is there a way to make the "destroy" action for floor triggers destroy items that don't already exist?

If the party stands directly in front of an item shooter, characters in the half tile next to the shooter are never hit. A fired item passes through the nearest character, hitting the character behind them. Illustrating with emoticons:

There are a few behaviors I can think of that would make nice options for holder objects.

No turning - but not necessarily restricting movement off the tile
Restricted facing - the party might be restricted from turning to face specific directions (such as only north or east)
Restricted off-tile ...

BTW - the crash is also deliberate (see http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24135 ) as a way of pointing out to you that the mechanics used are invalid.

Ah, I see in that thread you say:

The reason for doing it this way is that by falling over, you get a stack dump showing the ...

Well, to avoid breaking countless existing puzzles the party should never be allowed to take a step before falling another level. However, I think allowing the party to turn and to cast spells might allow for a couple of interesting ideas - if that can be separated from actual movement steps at all ...

Using a teleporter, a series of stacked pits can be turned into a bottomless pit simulator. RTC behaves strangely if anything falls in the pit, however. :)

If an item falls in, the game crashes from an invalid page fault without a chance to produce diagnostics. (A wall underneath the bottommost ...

When selecting a target on some small levels (5x5 is small enough), the level will be displayed at a zoom greater than 100%. The items are not scaled properly and are displayed with a large white border.

Neither of those links work for me.

I've always pronounced it "NAY-ta".

I haven't been able to reproduce this either. Both oh ven and des ven seem to work okay nearly all the time.

RTC (V0.42) Diagnostic file - Fri Aug 11 20:18:11 2006

Error:
an access violation exception.

Stack Dump:
RTCMediaGraphics.GGPNGToBMP(pointer 0x03245C40, pointer 0x007DF634, pointer 0x03241324);
RTCMediaGraphics.LoadTileFromMemory(pointer 0x007DF6D4, int 0, pointer 0x03245C40, pointer 0x007DF67C ...

Explosions from wizard's eye lightning are large enough that a few red pixels are visible above the top of closed doors.

Wizard's eyes are definitely casting spells at walls when the party is on the other side. Did the fix for casting at doors correct this?

Having a different view range and attack range though is an interesting idea - can you stick it in the suggestions forum, and I'll probably get around to it when I've got some free time.

What I was referring to was mainly the difference between the distance the original monsters can attack from ...

Would it necessarily make backwards compatibility difficult? It seems like it would be enough for the game to compile spelled out rune names to particular internal values and lowercase letters from old versions into the corresponding values, and the editor to translate lowercase letters into ...

That behavior sounds about right. Presumably the gazer is moving when it wouldn't be allowed to attack. Would a party-operated monster attractor work?

Clicking either "cancel" or "OK" in the dialog for replacing builtin spells results in a divide by zero:

Error:
an integer divide by zero exception.

Stack Dump:
utilMemory.utilFreeCheckBlock(pointer 0x00000000);
utilMemory.utilFree(pointer 0x028014B0, char 14);
RTCEditDlgNewSpells ...

I think a swamp slime may have tried to attack a door, or even a wall. At the moment, however, the only time I remember clearly is when a wizard's eye shot lightning at its Key of B door after the snake maze on DM level 10. I believe part of the explosion was visible around the door, and I may not ...

I've recently been playing the RTC version of DM with twice as many monsters. Near the end of the worm level, I started finding monsters that had escaped from their usual places - first some screamers, then a mummy. When I reached the imprisoned mummy, I found the worms had already been released ...

Should monsters be trying to cast spells through opaque doors (such as reinforced wood)?

What about writing the rune names out in all lowercase? That'd also make it easier to remember what to write in scrolls.

I've noticed swamp slimes and wizard's eyes in RTC start attacking much farther away than in the original game. This led to some nervous running backwards down corridors trying to get out of lightning range (only slightly longer than attack range in DM) when I discovered the eyes did rather more ...

By the way, what's the usual effective range for these? Referring to dmweb's creature list, does their range most closely correspond to sight or to awareness?

Could copy & paste be extended to blocks of tiles and their contents? It'd be nice if chunks of dungeon could be rearranged, duplicated (example: Chambers of the Guardian), or moved to different levels. Flipping and rotating could be useful too (example: moving E/W oriented objects to N/S corridors ...

When three monsters are on a tile, the one in back usually moves around a lot trying to get closer to the party. However, it occasionally makes physical attacks. This happened several times during a battle in the corridor leading to the fireball trigger and Delta room on level 8 (with extra monsters ...