dungeonmaker-develop

Re: [DM-dev] I've got it: the best of both models...

[Henningsen <al...@gl...>]

>addRoom( x,y,w,h, doorSide, doorX=-1, doorY=-1, doorWidth=2
>)
>// doorSide = N/S/E/W
>// (-1 == try to center it based off of the doorSide)

Will this work when we e.g. want to make a room with 2 doors of different
sizes? Or must that be done with multiple calls to addArea?

Will there be a (text) file that saves dungeon layout, and that can be hand
edited by users? Once one is familiar with the program, hand editing is
probably faster than interactive (plus intercative will not be part of
Dungeonmaker itself, so... hand editing is very desirable).

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Peter

Re: [DM-dev] I've got it: the best of both models...

[Henningsen <al...@gl...>]

>> Will this work when we e.g. want to make a room with 2 doors of
>> different sizes? Or must that be done with multiple calls to addArea?
>
>Ah, multiple doors I hadn't thought about. 

I think an interface for arbitrary rooms (think 8 walls, 3 doors, ... or 16
walls for a fancy palace?) could easily become too complex. The object that
is most flexible is the Wall... we should be able to make walls with doors
placed anywhere within them ("within" meaning at least one closed square on
each side of the door). If you want to make arbitrary Rooms, maybe the best
thing would be to put Wall objects in their constructor, then overload the
constructor for all sensible numbers of Wall arguments.

>I know "cp" and "rm" aren't anywhere near each other on the keyboard, 
>so I'm not quite sure how my fingers managed it, but they did.

The technical term for this is "absentmindedness", I think.

>That's my plan. I wouldn't be happy if it couldn't load from a file. 
>The difference from my earlier approach is that it will render as it 
>reads, instead of building a list and rendering it later.

That makes perfect sense, looks like this will be simpler, thus better.

Peter

Re: [DM-dev] I've got it: the best of both models...

[Stephan B. <ste...@ei...>]

On Sunday 01 July 2001 17:01, Henningsen wrote:
> >addRoom( x,y,w,h, doorSide, doorX=3D-1, doorY=3D-1, doorWidth=3D2
> >)
> >// doorSide =3D N/S/E/W
> >// (-1 =3D=3D try to center it based off of the doorSide)
>
> Will this work when we e.g. want to make a room with 2 doors of
> different sizes? Or must that be done with multiple calls to addArea?

Ah, multiple doors I hadn't thought about.=20

I've got a funny story to tell you (well, I have to think it's funny or=20
else I'll think it's sad, and then I'll cry). I was playing with the=20
new shared memory support in Linux, where you can use memory like=20
dynamically-resizable ramdisk. I wanted to see how quickly I could=20
build dungeonmaker from RAM, instead of on disk:

stephan@jareth:~/cvs/dungeonmaker > cp -R * /dev/shm
stephan@jareth:~/cvs/dungeonmaker > cd /dev/shm
stephan@jareth:/dev/shm > make
=2E..
(took about 2 seconds longer than normal, actually)
(okay, not clean up and move the compiled stuff back...)
stephan@jareth:/dev/shm > rm -R * ~/cvs/dungeonmaker

I know "cp" and "rm" aren't anywhere near each other on the keyboard,=20
so I'm not quite sure how my fingers managed it, but they did. I nuked=20
all my changed to DM. Talk about being pissed off at myself. I didn't=20
lose too much work, but enough to piss me off.

> Will there be a (text) file that saves dungeon layout, and that can
> be hand edited by users? Once one is familiar with the program, hand
> editing is probably faster than interactive (plus intercative will
> not be part of Dungeonmaker itself, so... hand editing is very
> desirable).

That's my plan. I wouldn't be happy if it couldn't load from a file.=20
The difference from my earlier approach is that it will render as it=20
reads, instead of building a list and rendering it later.

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