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→Dungeon script file hierarchy
== A first dungeon ==
== Dungeon script file hierarchy ==The dungeon script file follows a definite structure. However, this may be hard to see since certain keywords can be used over and over again. For example to re-define default values in a certain portion of the script, the keyword RoomDefault might be encountered at the LevelDefault stage or simply the Level stage. Each dungeon has default parameters specified within LevelDefault and RoomDefault. This is where the general look and feel of the dungeon can be uniformly specified with only a few commands. These defaults can be overridden at any point in the script, within that dungeon. Each level is explicitly catalogued by level number. LevelDefaults can be overridden to change the look and feel of just one particular level if desired. Rooms are described in the "Level" portion of the script, since rooms are contained on levels in the same way levels are contained in dungeons. Default specs for rooms (RoomDefault) can be overridden. This can either be done within each level, affecting only the specifications for rooms generated on that level, or it may be done on a per-room basis. Rooms can be rigidly specified, with special "script maps" GTerrainMap, OTerrainMap, ItemMap and CharacterMap listed, showing which types to be generated. Squares can be defined within rooms, or within a level somewhere. On a square may be placed any amount of items, or a particular ground-terrain or over-terrain, such as stairs or a fountain. Each room and square can be made to appear randomly within a level, in a random position, and/or within a random sub-area of a level (handled by BoundedRandom), and/or on a random member of a subset of levels (handled by RandomLevel).
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