Adding Oangband magic realms/spellbooks. What changes do I need to make?

[Nick]

How do I change the default preferences for tilesets? Right now I have to turn the graphics off every time I redownload from github, because of the monsters and terrain I've added.

The tile stuff is pretty much all in lib/tiles/<name of tileset> - the relevant graf-***.prf has all the tile definitions for monsters.

And how do I add a TIMED_DEC:CUT message for the FAangband spell "Reduce Cuts and Poison"?

You can change the messages for status effects in lib/gamedata/player_timed.txt; I think that's what you're after.

[Elfin Jedi]

The tile stuff is pretty much all in lib/tiles/<name of tileset> - the relevant graf-***.prf has all the tile definitions for monsters.

Actually, what I want to do is turn them off, by default. I'd prefer the ASCII map.

You can change the messages for status effects in lib/gamedata/player_timed.txt; I think that's what you're after.

I actually branched off of 4.0.5 which doesn't have a player_timed.txt yet, and have been waiting for the next release to update the Vanilla code. Would you recommend keeping things more up to date than that? When is the next Vanilla release likely to be?

Either way though the cuts are handled separately in player-timed.c, because there are different levels of severity, what I am trying to do is make a message for the Reduce Cuts and Poison spell that indicates that it actually had an effect on any cuts that the player had. I probably should look at FAangband some more to see how it is handled there, because right now I don't even have an idea of how it should work.

[Elfin Jedi]

Oh... there doesn't seem to be a message in FAangband. Maybe I will leave it and move on to the next spell on my list.

[Derakon]

I have the Giant bronze dragon flies breathing confusion properly now.

Congrats! I admit to missing the bronze dragons.

[Nick]

Actually, what I want to do is turn them off, by default. I'd prefer the ASCII map.

Do you mean turn them off in a particular front end (I think only the windows port has graphics on by default), or disable them at a deeper level?

I actually branched off of 4.0.5 which doesn't have a player_timed.txt yet, and have been waiting for the next release to update the Vanilla code. Would you recommend keeping things more up to date than that?

Up to you, really. There have been a *lot* of changes since 4.0.5, which I am obviously in favour of (or I wouldn't be making them). In particular there has been a lot more pushing of stuff out to the data files, which make modding easier in general.

When is the next Vanilla release likely to be?

Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahahahaha. ha.

I am currently working on monster pathfinding, and after that will be doing the monster list revamp. That should be it for major changes, and the rest is bugfixing and balance (which sounds easy when you say it quickly). I'm hoping to have 4.1 out about the middle of the year, but there are many variables in the process.

[Elfin Jedi]

Do you mean turn them off in a particular front end (I think only the windows port has graphics on by default), or disable them at a deeper level?

I use windows, and the graphics are on by default. I am trying to turn them off by default.

I am currently working on monster pathfinding, and after that will be doing the monster list revamp. That should be it for major changes, and the rest is bugfixing and balance (which sounds easy when you say it quickly). I'm hoping to have 4.1 out about the middle of the year, but there are many variables in the process.

What all are you doing with the monster list? I might be able to help. I am adding all the monsters from Unangband, and a few non-Zelazny ones from PosChengband to my game.

Edit: I've seen these links already http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=4494, http://trac.rephial.org/ticket/443.

[Nick]

I use windows, and the graphics are on by default. I am trying to turn them off by default.

OK, what you need to change is in src/win/win-layout.c.

What all are you doing with the monster list? I might be able to help. I am adding all the monsters from Unangband, and a few non-Zelazny ones from PosChengband to my game.

I have some general ideas, and there are some in this thread (which I have still failed to contribute to properly. Part of my problem here is my thoughts are still not sufficiently well-formed; I will make an effort to actually reply to that thread some time soon.

[Elfin Jedi]

On github I actually didn't fork my variant from Angband, because I didn't want to be accidentally attempting to push my changes onto Angband, I reuploaded the code I had downloaded.

Is there an easy way to pull changes into my variant from Angband when I am not forked from it? Or change whether I am forked from it? I already have a fork from Angband, but I was keeping it separate in case I want to contribute to Angband directly without trying to push all my variant's changes into vanilla angband. Unless there is a way to selectively choose which changes you want to include in a pull request...?

[Pete Mack]

Easy? No.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1425892/how-do-you-merge-two-git-repositories

[Derakon]

Honestly the easy way to do it probably would be to make a new repository that is a fork from Angband, make patches from your commits on your prior repository, then apply those patches to the new repository.

[Elfin Jedi]

Ok,

"If you want to merge project-a into project-b:

cd path/to/project-b
git remote add project-a path/to/project-a
git fetch project-a
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories project-a/master # or whichever branch you want to merge
git remote remove project-a"

So, if project-a = Angband and project-b = my variant (VarAngband), first I will need to ignore the final line "git remote remove project-a", because that is assuming that mine is project-a.

Next, where do I find the path folder/directory/thingy? It doesn't seem to be in my Documents/GitHub folder or any of its subfolders.

Edit: Oh, I didn't know you could make commits into patches.

[Derakon]

Ok,Edit: Oh, I didn't know you could make commits into patches.

The output of `git diff` is a valid patch that can be applied via `git apply`. You may also be able to use the `git cherry-pick` command to do this directly, though it requires the repository you want to add the changes to to be able to "see" the repository you want to pull from.

[Elfin Jedi]

Are those command line only functions then? I haven't done much with command lines yet, mostly just changing directories and making makefiles. (Or anything with Git Shell besides updating the Microsoft support for it.) I'll have to find some instructions.

[AnonymousHero]

On github I actually didn't fork my variant from Angband, because I didn't want to be accidentally attempting to push my changes onto Angband, I reuploaded the code I had downloaded.

Just a little tip I picked up from someone else: Do

git remote origin set-url --push no_push

and you can rest easy knowing that you'll never accidentally push to upstream .

[Derakon]

Are those command line only functions then? I haven't done much with command lines yet, mostly just changing directories and making makefiles. (Or anything with Git Shell besides updating the Microsoft support for it.) I'll have to find some instructions.

Those are shell commands, yes. In my biased opinion, it's worth learning to use the command line, but there's probably some way to achieve what you want to do without it.

and you can rest easy knowing that you'll never accidentally push to upstream

You can't do that anyway; you don't have permissions. About the worst you can do is pester Nick with pull requests, which he (and you) can freely cancel.