Re: [DM-dev] brilliant :)

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

Okay, I've got a script which turns Dungeon files into HTML with=20
graphics. It's attached, just for the curious, but it needs some major=20
work before it's really usable. It has some limitations which need to=20
be cleaned up before I send it to the list, however:

1) It doesn't correctly deal with NS & EW walls - they all get the same
graphic (which looks bad with the graphic I'm currently using). With a=20
proper square graphic it won't matter much, actually.

2) Needs to be able to take a graphics theme when run (this is=20
currently hard-coded). The graphics are called the same as the=20
character they represent, so X =3D graphics/<theme>/X.png, C =3D=20
graphics/<theme>/C.png, etc. (yes . =3D ..png).

3) Currently only handles X, C, ., and 0-9 characters (are there=20
others?). This support will be rewritten, though. I don't like the way=20
I've done it.

4) The graphics are lame. I grabbed the first things I found.

It should be very little problem to make a quick Qt app which can take=20
this HTML (or the original input) and make a real graphic out of it. Qt=20
has functions for taking "screen-shots" of arbitrary widgets, so I just=20
need to paint he pixmaps into the widget and Qt'll do the rest. Qt has=20
a basic HTML browser widget which can browse the output files (tested=20
already), and QUB has code to use that and to screen-shot it, so it'll=20
only take me a little while to do that tonight. Problem =3D null.

Using the attachment: unzip to your DungeonMaker source tree, then:

=2E/dungeonmaker
=2E/dng2html Dungeon.txt > foo.html

(dng2html requires Perl. If your Perl is not at /usr/bin/perl,=20
edit the first line of dng2html to the correct path.)

Browse foo.html from that dir. Netscape takes AGES to render the=20
output, but it works.

Gawd Bless Open Source.

Thanks again, Doctor!

----- Stephan Beal
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On Wednesday 11 April 2001 14:28, Stephan Beal wrote:
> Dr. Henningsen,
>
> It's brilliant :). A couple of month ago I started pouring through
> old Nethack and Moria source code in an attempt to find some code for
> Dungeon generation, which I would like as a plugin for QUB: the Q
> Universal Boardgame (http://qub.sourceforge.net). That code is so
> ancient and ill-organized that it's too much work to deal with,
> though. Two minutes with DM and I've found it! I love that you've
> made the output simple text. I'll be making a Perl script which takes
> that input and makes a graphical representation of it (via HTML and
> <img> hrefs). I'll post it to the list as soon as I'm done. I have a
> huge collection of graphics from Nethack which can easily be used for
> the
> wall/floor/column graphics. If you would be interested in thinking
> about doing some XML output, I would be happy to help with that.
>
> Something simple like:
> <Dungeon>
>
>   <floorsquare>
> =09  <pos>#,#</pos>
> =09  <img>filename</img>
> =09  <type>some type of type info (fire, North Wall, NW corner,
> etc.)</type>
> =09  <notes>arbitrary user notes (could be implemented
> as hoverhelp in a graphical client)</notes>
>   </floorsquare>
>   <floorsquare>
> ...
>   </floorsquare>
> ...
> </Dungeon>
>
> That's off the top of my head, anyway. Of course it's nowhere near as
> lightweight as text, but perhaps it would have some usefulness in
> feeding 3rd-party apps (I can imagine a DungeonMaker server on the
> internet, which sends XML output on request. Might have uses for any
> number of dungeon-crawling games).
>
> Take care, and thanks for DungeonMaker!
>
> :)
>
> ----- Stephan Beal
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