The alternate wallsets work great but there is a problem:
When you put an ALT_WALLSET on a wall that separates two areas of dungeon with different wallsets, it doesn't work because the ALT set is applied to both sides of the wall.
We need some way of specifying which side the ALT set applies to.
Alternate wallsets on either side of a single wall
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imagine wall.. it has 4 sides. If you apply ALT to it then you end up with all 4 sides being that ALt.. but what if one side is one corridor that is blue and the other side is a corridor that is red? you need to instead make annother set of those walls beside them making it two blocks wide taking up space that could be used more efficiently.. so a way to determine the alternates for each side of the block would be what he wants I think..
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Oh, I see.
That's not the way that DM (and therefore RTC) works though. The property of the wallset applies to an entire tile (in the example you give, to the entire wall, all 4 sides of it).
What you could do though, is have the alt wallset object on the wall tile and toggle it visible / invisible depending on what side of the dungeon you are in - that would give you the effect you're looking for wouldn't it?
That's not the way that DM (and therefore RTC) works though. The property of the wallset applies to an entire tile (in the example you give, to the entire wall, all 4 sides of it).
What you could do though, is have the alt wallset object on the wall tile and toggle it visible / invisible depending on what side of the dungeon you are in - that would give you the effect you're looking for wouldn't it?
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Ah, very clever. yes that would work and would be OK for the odd few tiles, though you wouldn't really want to do it for a whole level.
If you want to see a point in action, the pngportrait dungeon I sent you shows the problem -- when you step through the first portcullis in the HoC, the wall immediately to your right is plain but should have the top and bottom borders.
If you want to see a point in action, the pngportrait dungeon I sent you shows the problem -- when you step through the first portcullis in the HoC, the wall immediately to your right is plain but should have the top and bottom borders.
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