Re: [Exult-general] Multimap, extended shapes problems

[Jeff F. <je...@mo...>]

Dominik R. wrote:

> Hi all,
> while waiting for the exchange of my cablemodem (delivery from my ISP
> between 8 am and 5 pm), I had some time to finally test the new features.
> I ran into a couple of problems.
> First multimap:
> - I created a map with mockup, only using chunk #1437 (eternal void),
> but when switching maps Exult crashes when all the u7ifixXX files are
> not in the map dir. And then it tries to fill it up with all the
> fixed objects from the original BG map. Even though my map should not 
> have
> that stuff there
> - Same when you use Studio to create a new map. Unless you choose to
> copy terrain AND fixed objects from the original map (then it works
> fine)
>
A bug.  Should be fairly easy to fix.

> My thoughts and feature requests:
> - even if you would want to use the same map, the new map should work
> like the original with the patch dir. Meaning that it should use the
> static files and only write altered ones to the map dir
>
> I also wanted to try to move the island patch to a new map but found
> some obstacles:
> - A way to move NPCs from map to map would be nice
>
Yes.  Seems almost necessary if more than one person is going to work on 
a project.

>
> - A mass-selection would be great so you can select a mass of stuff at
> once. Preferably copy the whole thing, including the terrain
>
Something I've also been wanting.  It's a little hard to think of the 
interface, though.

> more than 1024 shapes:
> I don't know how far you have come with this yet. I tried it with our
> island patch and the penguin statue (in content/data). I made a
> shapes.vga with only the penguin picture as shape 1024 and frame 1
> (with ipack) and used that one in the patch dir. I put that one in the
> church but it was not saved correctly as on restart shape #1 was at
> the place.
> Exult Studio crashed on doubleclicking that shape then with
>       Assertion failed!
>       Program: E:\Spiele\Exult\Exult.exe
>       File: shapes/vgafile.cc
>       Line: 589
>       Expression: rle
>
> Before save and reload it didn't crash on doubleclicking the shape on
> the map but showed the object info of shape #1023
>
I only got it to work with the original BG map, where I added a new 
shape to the end.  I'll try doing what you did (and hopefully fix it).

> So that was my first bug reporting of these new features. Hope it
> helps you Jeff.
>
Thanks!  Gives me something to do:-)  I miss the earlier stage of the 
project when we were making lots of progress getting the games to work. 
 It will be great if we can get a new game going.

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