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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