22 May 2011 development release
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It is metal. Anything metal should ignore fire, as no other metallic gears burn except apparently gauntlets and boots. Bodyarmor, shields and helmets made from metal ignore fire I think (can't remember for sure just now and too tired to check).Comment
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It seems that shimmering critters interfere with the new targeting indicators. And they make hallucination *seriously* disturbing, but that's not necessarily as much of an issue.
Is there some way to make the screen just refresh those critters, rather than redrawing the entire screen each animation frame?Comment
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It seems that shimmering critters interfere with the new targeting indicators. And they make hallucination *seriously* disturbing, but that's not necessarily as much of an issue.
Is there some way to make the screen just refresh those critters, rather than redrawing the entire screen each animation frame?Comment
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Suggestion
- When turning off the option "Color: shimmer multi-colored things"
- Show the thing in it's original color only, otherwise it's easy to confuse it with something else.
- No matter if the option is on/off, show it in original color on the overhead map. Would remove the need to redraw the overhead map, and would help with the problem that Timo (and I) have with the overhead map flickering and slowing down the game. If the option is on, the overhead map flickers every time the monsters switch color, if the option is off it's the same, i.e. the overhead map flickers every turn, so running is slow, and resting more so.Comment
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Mithril arrows and bolts (but not mithril shots)
Ethereal cloaks and slippers
Alchemist's gloves
So the inconsistency is that mithril arrows and bolts ought to lose it."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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Also I've never understood why equipment you are wearing get merely damaged by elements, but when they are on the floor they get destroyed in one hit. It should be affected in the same way regardless of whether it is worn or not.Comment
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Also I've never understood why equipment you are wearing get merely damaged by elements, but when they are on the floor they get destroyed in one hit. It should be affected in the same way regardless of whether it is worn or not."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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Anything Mithril definitely should be immune to fire for consistency reasons. Mithril bolts can lose the ignore fire-flag, they are not vulnerable to fire anyway.Comment
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I'm not talking about flag, base item types shots and bolts, swords, hard armor, dragon armor, shields and helmets/crowns do not burn. Which includes a bit oddity, because from those there are "hard leather cap" and "leather shield" which are leather and "wicker shield" which is wooden, which all should burn quite nicely. OTOH, all of the rest of the items in those groups are metallic (except rounded pebble which is stone), which I guess is the reason they have been giving immunity to fire. (though I'm not sure about dragon armors because they seem to all have ignore_all flags).
Anything Mithril definitely should be immune to fire for consistency reasons. Mithril bolts can lose the ignore fire-flag, they are not vulnerable to fire anyway.
EDIT: doh. This has already been done - that's why the HATES_FIRE flag was created. So in fact things like wicker and leather shields can just be given it. Easy.Last edited by Magnate; May 28, 2011, 20:55."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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Another thread reminded me:
The output for the prefs dump for terrain features doesn't give the right indexes.
prefs.c/dump_features needs tweaking:
Code:file_putf(fff, "F:%d:%s:%d:%d\n", [COLOR="DarkOrange"]i[/COLOR], light, attr, chr);
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takkaria whispers something about options. -more-Comment
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Here's my notes so far, on a hobbit warrior currently at 2300':
* The new spell messages are certainly more to the point, but IMO they lack flavor and some are rather awkward (e.g. "tries to make you stop moving"). Also, the "conjures up foo" messages for fear/confusion are misleading since they sound like summoning spells. Honestly I liked the previous messages better. I doubt it takes that long to learn which messages correspond to which spells; if nothing else you can always check the monster memory. So I don't think this change was really necessary.
* Monsters will try to drain my warrior's nonexistent mana, and I'll get messages to that effect. If we want monsters to try, there should at least be a message to the effect that the attempt failed.
* I got a lesser vault at 300' and a potion of Intelligence at 350'. Just lucky?
* Artifacts in the equipment list are shown with a lowercase "the". I'd always assumed the "the" was part of the title, so this surprised me a bit. Really trivial either way though.
* Shrieking for help seems to have no effect; monsters in the area remain asleep. Not sure if it still hastes monsters in LOS; haven't checked.
* Cherubs are ludicrously badass for 1950' (their native depth). Not really relevant to the nightlies, but yeesh! Fast, lots of HP, resist everything, fairly painful spells...
* Crowns of the Magi have Free Action but not See Invisible. That seems a bit odd.
* Shards attacks don't seem to be causing cuts even if you lack the resist. I also suspect they're incapable of damaging your inventory.
Let me know when we can give negative pvals to ego item definitions; I have a bunch of changes to the edit files I want to make. For example, I'm still annoyed that someone went and made the (already too rare) rod of Trap Location vulnerable to electricity...Last edited by Derakon; May 30, 2011, 04:31.Comment
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* The new spell messages are certainly more to the point, but IMO they lack flavor and some are rather awkward (e.g. "tries to make you stop moving"). Also, the "conjures up foo" messages for fear/confusion are misleading since they sound like summoning spells. Honestly I liked the previous messages better. I doubt it takes that long to learn which messages correspond to which spells; if nothing else you can always check the monster memory. So I don't think this change was really necessary.* Monsters will try to drain my warrior's nonexistent mana, and I'll get messages to that effect. If we want monsters to try, there should at least be a message to the effect that the attempt failed.* I got a lesser vault at 300' and a potion of Intelligence at 350'. Just lucky?* Artifacts in the equipment list are shown with a lowercase "the". I'd always assumed the "the" was part of the title, so this surprised me a bit. Really trivial either way though.* Shrieking for help seems to have no effect; monsters in the area remain asleep. Not sure if it still hastes monsters in LOS; haven't checked.* Shards attacks don't seem to be causing cuts even if you lack the resist. I also suspect they're incapable of damaging your inventory.Let me know when we can give negative pvals to ego item definitions; I have a bunch of changes to the edit files I want to make. For example, I'm still annoyed that someone went and made the (already too rare) rod of Trap Location vulnerable to electricity..."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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