Posted by vasiliy, Feb 8 at 3:13 pm
also, started to fill ticket database with ideas and such. it is quite boring to move all ideas there, so i'll prolly keep putting things there at a slow pace.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 8 at 2:23 pm
made it so smith can open locked chests and boxes. sadly, the only tool the smith have is a hammer, so he simply STRIKES THE CHEST WITH EXCESSIVE FORCE!!111 usually it works.
p.s.: it's sad that the game doesn't have broken configurations for chests and boxes. anyway, one day i'll prolly allow the smith to shatter the whole container to pieces.
p.s.: it's sad that the game doesn't have broken configurations for chests and boxes. anyway, one day i'll prolly allow the smith to shatter the whole container to pieces.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 8 at 12:10 am
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he also talks about that in original I.V.A.N. (friendly replies):
p.s.: we need a fishing rod object and a bucket. he should have them in his inventory.
p.p.s.: amazon doesn't give me the image. sigh.
"\"Fishing is fun! Do you fish?\"",
"\"And then I got that perch weighting fifty stones...\"",
"\"I only want to talk but everyone is rude and dies when I try.\"",
not that you have much chance to talk with him, tho…p.s.: we need a fishing rod object and a bucket. he should have them in his inventory.
p.p.s.: amazon doesn't give me the image. sigh.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 9:57 pm
in aslonawizard AI, there is this code:
//k8: i believe that it meant to be `RAND_4`
if (NearestEnemy && NearestEnemy->GetPos().IsAdjacent(Pos) &&
(!(RAND() & 4) || StateIsActivated(PANIC)))
i suspect that what really should be here is `RAND() % 4` (or `RAND_4`, or `RAND_N(4)`), because `RAND() & 4` is the same as `RAND() & 1`, actually — it simply selects another bit, but it is still only two possible values.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 8:30 pm
yep, i thought about that too, and it definitely looks easier to do. there is no need for a dungeon to be on the worldmap, those squares are simply entrances (and dungeon configs). and it doesn't even need to be permanent, i can regenerate it each time (i.e. it would be a kind of random encounter).
yes, this definitely looks like the good way to implement it.
eh, this way we may end up having more content than vanilla. i have some… uncertain feelings about it. it somewhat looks like i waited for red_k to create some great content, and then simply pull it into k8I. unfair competition.
but vanilla works on 64-bit systems, and k8I not. ok. fair competition.
yes, this definitely looks like the good way to implement it.
eh, this way we may end up having more content than vanilla. i have some… uncertain feelings about it. it somewhat looks like i waited for red_k to create some great content, and then simply pull it into k8I. unfair competition.
but vanilla works on 64-bit systems, and k8I not. ok. fair competition.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 3:33 pm
vertical teleport, like NetHack cursed scroll of teleport does? hm…
as for strange places… it is harder to implement, because adding a level to a dungeon in runtime is not trivial. have to think about that.
as for strange places… it is harder to implement, because adding a level to a dungeon in runtime is not trivial. have to think about that.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 10:32 am
btw.
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great idea with the shortcut path in Goblin Fortress. i firstly not realised that there are two ways to get the kid. i even managed to mostly get him out this way. great work!
and i did one very questionable thing in GC: added second exit from Enner level. it is near the river too, but you can get away without killing the beast. somehow i always felt… sympathatetic for the poor thing. he only wanted some fish, and somebody to talk with, it's not his fault that everybody around dies! of course, there are many ways to not kill him, but i felt that i should explicitly hint the player.
and had to change leave/return code a little. the game is not really ready for multiple exits to the same level. they work as expected when leaving, but on returning, the game always selected first generated one. which is wrong in case of Beast Level. so i added support for multiple exits, and the game selects "most recently used" for returning.
this is not fully correct too, because if we'll have several returning stairs too, they will all lead to the same exit one. prolly need a way to link exit/enter pairs too. but i will think about it when there will be maps with such bizarre exit configurations.
and i did one very questionable thing in GC: added second exit from Enner level. it is near the river too, but you can get away without killing the beast. somehow i always felt… sympathatetic for the poor thing. he only wanted some fish, and somebody to talk with, it's not his fault that everybody around dies! of course, there are many ways to not kill him, but i felt that i should explicitly hint the player.
and had to change leave/return code a little. the game is not really ready for multiple exits to the same level. they work as expected when leaving, but on returning, the game always selected first generated one. which is wrong in case of Beast Level. so i added support for multiple exits, and the game selects "most recently used" for returning.
this is not fully correct too, because if we'll have several returning stairs too, they will all lead to the same exit one. prolly need a way to link exit/enter pairs too. but i will think about it when there will be maps with such bizarre exit configurations.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 10:17 am
oh, i read about it, and then forgot. prolly because one of the decisions i am not fully sold to. i mean, if original devs wanted it to be that way, they could easily implement it, just like they implemented zombies. yet ghosts stayed ghosts. i now remember that i thought about it, and decided to not follow. i mean, i have no sane arguments for "old ghosts", and had to resort to "The Original Devs…", but… eh. maybe i just love the ghosts as they are, that's all.
p.s.: just realised… The Devs prolly made ghosts non-humans simply for them to use less RAM. they have that… how it is called… "distorting animation", and internally the game is not rendering such distortions in realtime, but creates cached animation frames. devs prolly deided that it would too much to create 16+ frames for each possible character. not a problem these days, but… i just love ghosts as they are.
p.s.: just realised… The Devs prolly made ghosts non-humans simply for them to use less RAM. they have that… how it is called… "distorting animation", and internally the game is not rendering such distortions in realtime, but creates cached animation frames. devs prolly deided that it would too much to create 16+ frames for each possible character. not a problem these days, but… i just love ghosts as they are.
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 2:04 am
also, added console commands to manipulate states and edit attributes. yes, this is totally cheating without wizard mode, i know. yet the console is disabled by default, one need to use CLI arg to enable it. i prolly won't bother to introduce "console cheater" flag — after all, anybody (lol) can recompile the code with any cheats enabled. or just edit the scripts. and i sometimes want the game to believe that i am not a cheater — strictly for debugging purposes!
by the way, frying pan is great starting weapon. i wonder how far i could go if i'll take two frying pans, and enchant them to +3/+4. it would be a shame for Elpuri to be killed with a frying pan, isn't it? maybe the game should somehow record the fact that some boss was killed with… let's say, unusual weapon…
by the way, frying pan is great starting weapon. i wonder how far i could go if i'll take two frying pans, and enchant them to +3/+4. it would be a shame for Elpuri to be killed with a frying pan, isn't it? maybe the game should somehow record the fact that some boss was killed with… let's say, unusual weapon…
Posted by vasiliy, Feb 7 at 1:56 am
So what you're telling me, is that IVAN zombie code is spat out by eddies in space-time continuum.