Grimrock

antti wrote:We've gotten rid of the old wallsets and now we instead use a system based on tiles. Basically we've got different brushes for laying down floors and walls and you can mix and match different tiles within the same level. The tile definitions define what kinds of objects are placed as the floors/walls/ceiling/pillars etc. in each tile and these will be actual full blown objects so that they can use all the components other objects use and they can also be manipulated with script at runtime if needed.

We've got an isWall function which, when you reverse the result, is basically what you would get from an isFloor as well. We've also got isBlocked, isPit and isObstacle. We don't have a getFloorType-function since once the tile has placed the floor object into the level it's just an object like everything else and there's nothing that really makes it a floor specifically. But hey, since it's just a good ol' object, you can just use entitiesAt to find the floor/walls/ceiling

local checkedCell = entitiesAt(level, x, y)
      for object in checkedCell do
         if object.class == "Floor" then
            if.object.name == "standard_floor" then
              do smth
            else
             do smth
            end
         end
       end

Leki wrote:Will we be able to work with classes? As "Floor" or "Wall" etc?

Leki wrote:In other word, I'm thinking about multibrain AI - different behaviours, each as component - activated, deactivated on fly. I have some idea about multicell monsters and I wenna "read" their surroundings. So it will turn left right if there is space for that - usually pivot will stay in "main cell" etc.

Leki wrote:Another example of that is "custom minimap" - onGui cycle will track few cells around the party - You know, I have some sci-fi mod idea and atm I play withsome "aliens like movement detector" - and I wanna see walls etc on that gadget... Another think is, that there can be some kind of dependence on scanner level, mapmaking skill level etc, so "minimap can be" draw in different "quality levels" - with or without secret doors etc...

antti wrote:

Leki wrote:Another example of that is "custom minimap" - onGui cycle will track few cells around the party - You know, I have some sci-fi mod idea and atm I play withsome "aliens like movement detector" - and I wanna see walls etc on that gadget... Another think is, that there can be some kind of dependence on scanner level, mapmaking skill level etc, so "minimap can be" draw in different "quality levels" - with or without secret doors etc...

Cool idea! For this, I'd start off with isWall and isObstacle for getting the level layout and then fill in the rest (monsters, doors, secret doors, items etc.) by checking out if the objects can be detected via their components: monsters always have a monster component, items have item, doors have door etc. Separating secret doors from normal doors is more tricky though and there I would probably use getDoorSound to detect if a door is supposed to be secret or not.

Isaac wrote:Is there any chance that the modder can define custom data [properties] in an object? In effect, (among many other possibilities) they could label a custom door as a "secret" door in a property, and check for that property in their scripts.

petri wrote:Hmmm, now I'm wondering would it make sense to have an open mod feature request / coding session before the release...?

JohnWordsworth wrote:@Petri: It would be very exciting if you had a Glögg fuelled coding session for the dungeon editor before release! Although, there might be the problem that we spend the time asking for features that you've already added by naturally upgrading for your own purposes.

If it would be of any help, I can compile all of the ideas from this thread and around the forums into the first post of this thread (which contains most of the features I would request during a coding session at the moment). Note that the idea of having custom properties or 'user data' on entities is already there :p.