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I have been upgrading my Kid dungeon to work with the latest format, and noticed something strange.

I have a couple of FLOORITEM_TRIGGERS which I fixed so that they would only be activated if the party is facing east. I guessed at the parameter for this and added OPTIONS=(FACING:EAST) to the trigger. The dungeon compiled fine with no errors.

However, the pads didn't work as expected and when I searched through the DM dungeon I discovered that the parameter is actually OPTIONS=(DIRECTION:EAST).

The compiler isn't catching this as an error, which I guess is classed as a bug?

Hmm - I can't reproduce this!

Can you please post the exact (complete) line of text you've used for the trigger and I'll have another look?

<pre> 95 FLOORITEM_TRIGGER 10 4 0 OPBY=(PARTY) ACTION=(ACTIVATE) TARGET=(96) OPTIONS=(FACING:EAST)96 FLOORITEM_TEXT 10 4 0 STATE=(INVISIBLE) TEXT=(DO NOT TOUCH ME)</pre>

It makes no difference if the OPTIONS parameters have FACING or DIRECTION - it compiles fine; I would expect a compiler error using the term FACING.

I am trying to use this effect to create a 'speaking text' that only appears on screen when the player is facing a certain direction. Separate to this compiler issue, I have discovered that this doesn't work anyway - speaking text seems to ALWAYS appear. Is there a way of controlling these?

In answer to your second question - have four pads, one facing in each direction and have 3 of them deactivate the text, and the fourth (east) one activating it.

Have a look at how the Junction Of the Ways or the Worm pit (bottom level)works in CSB. Both are very similar to what you're after as they activate/deactivate things depending on which way you are facing.

Fixed for V0.18