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If I was to guess I'd say that it is something to do with the new lighting code. Old tiles never used to have degrees of lighting - it was either lit or not.
Seen some unrelated bugs too. I found a vault without any monsters - just the items! Also seen some vaults not connected to corridors. I have a ring with an ammo branding activation which doesn't have a recharge time so it works whenever. I just carry it in my pack.Comment
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As that person who gives a hoot, it is much appreciated. However something really strange happened with the latest version. My light stopped identifying adjacent walls! I had to walk into them to discover them as if I was blind. I changed back to v2 and though I still couldn't see those particular walls automatically, if I walked down the corridor I could start seeing tiles again.
If I was to guess I'd say that it is something to do with the new lighting code. Old tiles never used to have degrees of lighting - it was either lit or not.
Seen some unrelated bugs too. I found a vault without any monsters - just the items! Also seen some vaults not connected to corridors.
I have a ring with an ammo branding activation which doesn't have a recharge time so it works whenever. I just carry it in my pack.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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Maybe let the tunneling code penetrate permawalls that also have CAVE_ICKY, or whatever the flag that prevents teleportation is called? All vault permawalls whould have it.
IIRC, the tunneling code also cares about permawalls inside a room, even though it is never going to actually penetrate them.Comment
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www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.Comment
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I wondered what was coming when three empty lit spaces started carving through the dungeon... they were Hounds of Tindalos depicted by a blank tile. Very weird. I've gone back to v2 again which works nicely in the dungeon.Comment
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Something odd happened with v3. I think I got confused and combined 2 partially identical but (upon closer inspection) different 8x8 tilesets. That's what I get for pushing out work completely untested.www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.Comment
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EDIT: I've been using Linux exclusively for many years because it is much more efficient than Windows for many tasks once you have invested lots of time to learn the tools. Lately I've been using Windows 7 in my teaching work. Windows seems much more stable in common office work than the average Linux distro nowadays. I've also been surprised to see my wife and my father running Windows 7 without any issues at all for a year or so. I should write a long operating system rave because I seem to like all of them nowadays...Last edited by Mikko Lehtinen; November 27, 2012, 03:29.Comment
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Reviews say it's the perfect OS for tablet computers with an optional keyboard. Quite a narrow target system. Luckily I just bought a new laptop with Win 7. I figured it was a good time to upgrade from my Win 2000 in virtual machine. I have a LONG term strategy in Windows upgrades, even more than with Linux distros.
Slackware 14 & Windows 7 is my choice for the next two years or so. The numbers seem to have some magic in them. It's a blackjack. And when Debian Wheezy comes out it's time to upgrade on the old laptop.
(I critiqued Ubuntu earlier, but the LTS versions seem to be pretty solid according to reviews.)
I'm stopping my midnight to morning rant & rave now. Everybody, feel free to rant about Windows 8 on Idle chatter, I'd like to read some early views. Should I tell my elderly students to steer clear of it?Last edited by Mikko Lehtinen; November 27, 2012, 07:16.Comment
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If they're used to Windows XP/Vista/7, then definitely tell them to steer clear. Metro applications hog up the entire screen, and you have to use keystrokes to move between them. It's not intuitive or novice-friendly at all, IMHO.
(Too bad, because I hear there's some amazing stuff under the hood.)Comment
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Bug with 'no wilderness' game
Started a new character, selecting 'no wilderness' as a birth option. Entered the dungeon OK, saved after returning to town. I loaded the game a day or two later, and tried to take the stairs down from the town. I got the message "You trigger a magic portal", and the town layout changed (presumably I entered a new town). Now I am stuck in "groundhog town" - every time I take the down stairs I am allowed to do so (no "magic portal" message) but it transports me to an identical staircase in an identical town (only the townspeople are different). There is no way to get to the dungeon short of saving up to buy a recall scroll.
Maybe 'no wilderness' mode needs some love?Comment
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Started a new character, selecting 'no wilderness' as a birth option. Entered the dungeon OK, saved after returning to town. I loaded the game a day or two later, and tried to take the stairs down from the town. I got the message "You trigger a magic portal", and the town layout changed (presumably I entered a new town). Now I am stuck in "groundhog town" - every time I take the down stairs I am allowed to do so (no "magic portal" message) but it transports me to an identical staircase in an identical town (only the townspeople are different). There is no way to get to the dungeon short of saving up to buy a recall scroll.
Maybe 'no wilderness' mode needs some love?
If you send me a savefile (address on title screen) I can fix it for you; it then should load fine into 1.3.1.
If you're already using 1.3.1, then I can still fix the savefile, but I'll need to do some more fixing too.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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