Dungeon Master Forum

Probably nobody cares anymore about this old tool...
However, for what it's worth, I've put the current version I use as is -- with a few updates to make it more friendly, I hope (though the controls are still not those of your regular windows app) -- so that it can now edit quite almost everything within a dungeon file (specially text editing was missing in previous versions).

Here are some visuals:



Map header info:


New text editor:


More help info within the application:


Visual list of creatures within dungeon:


Visual list of items within dungeon:


I also wrote a guide for it that you can find here:
https://dmbuilder.sphenxmusics.fr/files/DMBuilder.pdf

And for bonus:
I've made adaptation to compile it with MinGW, and for Linux.
I've made almost 95% of its code published on GitHub (old student code, plenty of quick and dirt code ...)
https://github.com/gbsphenx/dmbuilder

I really wanted to build this release and deliver something more complete than before in order to make a good step with DMBuilder and be able to move on with other projects.

I did not have time to try it yet, but that is great news!
Does it support Theron's Quest dungeons? I remember a very long time ago you worked on it if I remember correctly

I included with DMBuilder the original TQ's conversions for PC-DOS I did back then. But it can't edit directly into TQ's data. I have lost part of my notes from that time -- and it's a long time I did not try PC Engine emulation to test. Data were found in TQ02.iso and an actual dungeon is split in several parts rather than one "dungeon.dat" file. At best I may try to add direct read from TQ02.iso.

I would be interested by any notes and tools, even incomplete, to try and document the format used in TQ, this would avoid me starting from scratch.

OK this is weird, the conversions I did do not seem to match exactly what I see from TQ02.iso and I don't remember how I did this back then. Let me some time to collect my information and make some new tests.

OK, no rush !

I figured out again most of the map data stuff and I am currently integrating it into DMBuilder. And about the differences, it is because I forgot there are 2 versions of TQ (JP vs US) -- I don't know from which I did the conversions -- so I need to sort these things and make sure it works for both . I'll give news in few days then.

Great!
I didn't know the maps were different in JP and US versions. I only played the US version many years ago.