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

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). ds...

Clearing the bitmap to alpha 0 fixed all the issues. I also changed my UI functions to use shadow icons generated at startup, rather than dynamically tinted. Should be more efficient now.

In another thread I've shared some progress I'm making on a revamp of DM. This has meant a spending a lot of time perusing the original map in a map editor. And that's made me think about a lot of things in the game that don't really make a lot of sense: 1) The dungeon was apparently the Grey Lord's...

Aha, right thanks that makes sense. I'll go back and rework these, and try caching too.

Sorry to be a pain, but I have a new problem in 0.78. I have a function I use for tinting bitmaps, which I use to create shadows for icons and other special effects. In 0.78, the alpha is no longer respected when I use this function, even though it previously worked. This is an example of how I migh...

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.

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...

Ah amazing, thanks! It's not in the wiki, so I'll add it in.

Is there a way of finding out the wallset of a specific tile (ie, one that was painted in ESB wall painting mode). dsb_fetch() doesn't yield that info and I couldn't find anything in the wiki under wallsets.

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...

Cool, thanks for looking at that again. It's a better fix. Must admit I'm having fun getting all these bits in place finally!

Update: the two pixel edge error appears for either of the images independently, so it's not just about the alpha overlay.

OK, so I tried the new setup and it doesn't seem to work. The "hole" image is correctly indexed as you specified, with black at index 0 and powerpink at index 1, but it only makes the middle transparent and doesn't punch a hole in the wall, and the outer black areas don't go transparent. T...

Perfect. Yep it's the glowy part that would need alpha. Thank you

OK, thanks. Is there a special way to create the hole bitmap? The one in the graphics.dat uses black for the outer transparent bit and powerpink for the hole in a 4-bit bitmap, but I'd like to use either an 8-bit or even 24-bit bitmap.

Cool, OK, sounds good to me! Thank you.

I'm using the multidraw property to have two wallitems render together in the DM dungeon. Works great for rendering, but interaction is weird: If I add a dsb_write() into the on_click handler for each of the objects, I would expect two messages written to screen for each single click on the wall, fo...

I never got around to investigating this at the time you implemented it. Do you have a code example of how to do this as I can't work it out, thanks.

Yep, later versions changed the perspective slightly and the lines between walls were moved to improve overall coherence. There's an animation on dmweb showing the difference.

Something I never noticed before and only just spotted while watching some YouTubes of DM... the windows on some doors are higher in the early versions of the game (Atari) and lowered in later versions (Amiga): https://matthill.co/filesdm/dm-door-window-changes.png And thanks Boyflea, I'm well, hope...

I always remembered that as RBFLRB - facing west in the empty first square that's Right, Back, Forwards, Left, Right, Back. This also gets you a Mirror of Dawn and a Poison Dart.

Aaaaaaahahahaha! Awesome, thank you so much. I thought I was going mad. (Perhaps I still am but that's another issue entirely -- 2020 and all that!)

After finally getting my sys_render_other to behave for 0.77, I've discovered new problems with how alpha channels and blitting behave. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, so here's some pseudo code to show various setups and the results. I've reduced down to the pertinent code for brevity. N...

I'm an idiot. dsb_current_inventory does work in 0.77, I was reading my results wrong. And I've found the problem. In sys_render_other , I clear the bitmap to powerpink. But I wasn't using dsb_bitmap_clear , I was using a function you previously gave me, bitmap_clear_alpha : function bitmap_clear_al...

I'll send you the dungeon via PM. By the way, the test version of 0.77 that you sent me dated 23/March at 18:29 doesn't have this problem and dsb_current_inventory works correctly in that version.

I don't know what else to tell you. It worked fine in 0.76. With 0.77, I've not changed anything else other than updating my /base folder to use the files from 0.77, and updating the dsb.exe and esb.exe to the 0.77 exes. To answer your other question, I completely redefine the gui_info table, but it...

After some digging around, it seems that dsb_current_inventory() now only returns "nil" in 0.77. Previously it returned an integer (ppos), for example in my sys_render_other I do this sort of thing and it no longer works: if (gui_name == "inventory") then local current_inv_ppos =...

I've just updated to 0.77 and all my custom sys_render_other zones have stopped working. Any ideas what would cause that?

OK, ta. Is dsb_current_champion in the newest version of DSB? I'm still using 0.76 and I get a crash if I try to use that function. EDIT: Never mind, I just read the release post for 0.77. Time for me to upgrade (I keep avoiding it due to how much modified code I have to check against the base code ...