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http://en.file-upload.net/download-1126 ... c.zip.html

(not major, but cleans up a bit of text glitchiness because on_spawn didn't work in the way I expected)

Hi on_spawn doesn't appear to trigger if an item is created inside anther item. Should this be the case? Or am I misusing the API? Here is a simple example, with a gem object that logs it's ID as an on_spawn event http://en.file-upload.net/download-11263868/noonspawn.zip.html loggem #20 logs success...

Here is a new version http://en.file-upload.net/download-11263671/probablysolvable20160131b.zip.html This one adds secret areas to the dungeon. These are guaranteed* to be non-essential for completing the dungeon, but item drops in the secret areas are calculated as much deeper into the dungeon. The...

Cool. I wasn't sure any change was necessary, but if there's a drop in replacement MT in a suitable license, a better RNG is always better 8-)

thanks

Oh, and in case anyone winds up here looking for larger dsb_rands, I'll leave this here. (nb I know there are statistical issues with this style of algorithm, but I'm not using it for cryptography, so it ought to be OK) -- random number generator suitable for ranges up to a couple hundred million fu...

Oh two additional things: 1) Is there sufficient data up there, or would you rather the full reams and reams of it? (I would be looking at putting a zip file somewhere rather than dumping all that to the forum) 2) I'm not sure that any of this actually constitutes a problem with dsb_rand, just a lim...

The overlap case for lua random is a bit trickier, so I added a histogram math.randomseed(34892895636) -- arbitrary seed, for reproducability local dist={} local hist={} local temp for i=0,999999 do temp=math.random(0,30000) if (dist[temp] == nil) then dist[temp] = 1 else dist[temp] = dist[temp]+1 e...

Lua's random falls through to ANSI C random, which can have a range (depending on the implementation) "as low as 32767" using math.randomseed(34892895636) -- arbitrary seed, for reproducability local dist={} local temp for i=0,999999 do temp=math.random(0,9999999) if (dist[temp] == nil) th...

If I put local dist={} local temp for i=0,999999 do temp=dsb_rand(0,30000) if (dist[temp] == nil) then dist[temp] = 1 else dist[temp] = dist[temp]+1 end end for k,v in pairs(dist) do __log(tostring(k) .. " -> " .. tostring(v)) end in startup.lua I get Lua: 1 -> 61 Lua: 2 -> 60 Lua: 3 -> 62...

If I put local dist={} local temp for i=0,999999 do temp=dsb_rand(0,99999999) if (dist[temp] == nil) then dist[temp] = 1 else dist[temp] = dist[temp]+1 end end for k,v in pairs(dist) do __log(tostring(k) .. " -> " .. tostring(v)) end in startup.lua I get Lua: 1 -> 34 Lua: 2 -> 35 Lua: 3 ->...

A correction: while dsb_rand may not *crash* for very large ranges, I wouldn't call the results of any range above about 3200 really viable. a) dsb_rand seems to use "generate a randomish number in 0 .. 32767 and then modulus it into the required range" which means that: b) if the range is...

And here's the first inevitable bugfix 8-) http://en.file-upload.net/download-10810563/probablysolvable20150801.zip.html If a pressure pad was right next to a moveable wall, then you could step off the pad into the wall and it would close behind you. There was an 'emergency pad' mechanism to open it...

:arrow: The default dungeon is randomly generated and is probably solvable, but I haven't playtested it so I don't know. So I've been tweaking Joramun' Chaos Hack for a while, but I ran into a problem where I was pretty sure it was possible to wind up with a situation where you needed to use the ri...

Hi Under some circumstances, it is possible for teleports and messages to combine to crash the system. The teleport can get delayed indefinitely, and if the target is deleted for any reason then everything falls over due to messages involving a now-invalid id... simple test case: http://en.file-uplo...

No great hurry- I do have a workaround for it 8-)

Ok. I may look into that, but I suspect that this may be one of those circumstances where I didn't so much need a solution but rather needed a chance to whine about it to someone 8-)

If I load a dungeon in ESB, I cannot see the logs generated in the process until ESB is closed (or enough data is generated to trigger a write). So it would be handy to have the buffers written out at that point so that I can see what is going on. (I'm dumping reams of additional data into the log f...

It may be a bit of a change for the original, but how hard would it be to add some sort of "return to title screen" or "load new game" option. I have this problem that my process for starting my ongoing playthrough is: 1) Start DSB 2) Hit enter dungeon 3) Swear 4) Quit DSB 5) Res...

Could I request that ESB should flush its log file when it finishes loading a dungeon?

It probably doesn't affect most people, but I'm still tinkering with trying to get this random dungeon generator to be better than "probably solvable" 8-)

No apology required- I was just highly amused that our solutions matched right down to the faked object being the firestaff 8-)

(I guess it is the most obvious candidate, but even so...)

Saruman: That sounds an awful lot like my hacky version Sophia: Thanks. I had actually thought "is there anything in the test_dungeon that does something like this" but had dismissed looking at the small alcove because it hides everything when disabled... Anyhow, here is the fixed version ...

Hi Ive been playing around with making a covered alcove where there is a barrier that prevents the player grabbing the contents of the alcove. The only way I found to prevent the player grabbing stuff "through" the barrier was by making a fake alcove+item graphic and substituting that unti...

Hi I'm getting started on a playthrough of dsbcsb060 in which the dungeon.lua has date 25/11/2013 and CRC 54069D03 (I *think* this is the most uptodate version...) Will document stuff that seems out of whack as I go. At 8,19,27 the wallwriting [3141] should be on the east side At 8,31,11 I believe t...

AWESOME

(I've been kinda waiting for this version...)

Now to see if the dsb_move tweaks make my code work better than the END_OF_FRAME does 8-)

Thanks

As long as you only want it to work for a single dungeon, you could just have a lookup table of level-altitude. DSB style would be something like altimeter_lookup= { -- outside 1=0, 2=0, 3=0, -- tower 4=0, 5=1, 6=2, 7=3, -- basement 8=-1, 9=-2, -- space 10="freefall" } and have the altimet...

As a bandaid that would work, but it would be better if method_physattack didn't assume the value was set for all monsters when it isn't.

Either that or there should be a base monster class with appropriate default values so if we start by cloning that then we guarantee crash-safety.

In hooks.lua, you have the method
h_fuse_chaos

but in the fuse method, you actually call
h_fused_chaos

Here's one not already listed: the game doesn't actually bother to end once you fuse Chaos. The grey lord just sits there gesturing vaguely until you get bored and attack him. At that point the game crashes. [S:base/methods.lua:180: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'quickness' (a nil value)] e...

I discovered too late that the DM download at http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=29633 doesn't actually include half of the known bugfixes yet. So I made a tweaked startup.lua that fixes all the known bugs for a mid-game savefile http://en.file-upload.net/download-8643463/d...

Thanks, that was exactly what I was asking 8-) I suppose I should actually read through the base/ files instead of just grepping for a few likely strings... http://en.file-upload.net/download-8634003/sconcelight.zip.html OK, this version responds to party movement instead of polling, and gives me a ...