Dungeon upgrade

PicturesInTheDark · Post by **PicturesInTheDark** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 11:44 am

A suggestion/question: Is it possible to upgrade dungeons from an older version to the latest one or could such a solution be implemented? So far, the author of a game has to recompile the *.txt file for each dungeon with the new engine so that it is recognized by the game. As far as I know there are only "Reactor" and "Chiefy's dungeon" out there apart from RTC itself, so the efforts are limited but when the editors take shape I think we will have a whole lot more of custom dungeons - and regular players only have the rtc files distributed, so maybe there's a way to upgrade those files (if not in-game save files) by recompiling with an extra command line parameter instead of having to beg the authors each time to recompile their text files.

Regards, PitD

Post by **Ameena** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:26 pm

Does that mean I have to edit my text file in some way? I started making my dungeon as a text file with v0.24, but I'm continuing the creation process in the v0.27 editor...I said the two bugs I'm getting which prevent it from working over in the Editing forum though, so I won't repeat myself here

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PicturesInTheDark · Post by **PicturesInTheDark** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:16 am

If there were no changes for the code the text file is in you'll not have to do any changes. It simply means that before somebody can play it the dungeon text file has to be compiled by the latest version of RTC before this version can read it. But since you're still working on it, there's no compiled version of it from RTC V0.23 or o.24 out there yet.

The request was for already existing dungeons (Reactor, Chiefy's dungeon), because they will have to be recompiled with RTC 0.27 before they can be played in the new version. Save games are completely lost as far as I know.

Regards, PitD