Re: [DM-dev] design decision question:

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

On Thursday 26 April 2001 15:05, you wrote:
> In the DungeonMaker we should have a flat hierarchy, with just the
> Map coordinates used for everything. In the DungeonDesigner you can
> use nested hierarchies and build veritable palaces from walls if you
> want. I'm sorry i didn't write earlier, but if (as i hope you do) you
> go with my "no rooms in the DungeonMaker"-policy, this becomes all
> very simple. And simple is the way we want it. Otherwise i might
> never understand your code, and then what?

Yes, following your earlier suggestion I will go with the all-walls=20
approach. Rooms are only wrappers which ease the work of using more=20
than one wall at a time.

> >If you'll tell me that the crawlers simply analyze the grid after
> > the rooms have been rendered to it, I'll continue with this more
> > heirarchical approach.
>
> The crawlers do not interact with rooms objects in any way, they just
> "see" with GetMap(i , j). But put all that complex stuff in the
> DungeonDesigner. Please?

Ah, good. Will do.

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