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Here is the situation:
A - amalgam_empty on south wall (which also contains two other deactivated objects, all south)
W - a plain wall
D - a door
P - party facing west (left here)
_ open tile

The amalgam appears "east-oriented" in place of the wall corner.
The south wall doesn't appear at all.
Same goes in the mirrored situation (and in any direction).
I didn't verify all possible positions though.

A D W
_ P _

or

ADW
_ _ P

OR

ADWW
_ _ _ P

If there is no sideview defined, DSB will use the front view as the side view. This is desirable in a lot of cases. Perhaps not this one, but I wouldn't call it a bug.

Ok, but the walls are not properly displayed behind the object. this might be because of the bitmap size.
Using another item's side graphics also didn't solve the thing.

Joramun wrote:Ok, but the walls are not properly displayed behind the object. this might be because of the bitmap size.

Yes, I think it is.

Joramun wrote:Using another item's side graphics also didn't solve the thing.

What did you do? It worked fine for me.

I created the situation you described in the test_dungeon, and then added this line to the test_dungeon's objects.lua:That code caused the amalgam's side view to be defined as a hook, and everything worked as expected, with the amalgam showing up as a hook from the side view, and properly from the front.

Sorry, my bad, I mixed amalgam and amalgam_empty in my objects.lua.