A 3.4.0 report, currently only the mdamagem gaze case caused the strange
"on fire" message for flaming spheres, but other attacks seemed like they
might result in a similar message, so I updated the damageum and hitmu
cases as well.
- restructured Install.nt quite a bit. It now contains instructions
to build a graphical nethack using NMAKE, too. I merged
the instructions for command line builds, and separated the IDE
build; that made more sense to me. It is shorter, too.
- added some lines to all Makefiles so they now build
NetHackW.exe when GRAPHICAL is "Y", and NetHack.exe
otherwise. I espacially did not test this on Borland.
Previously, the makefiles would always build NetHack.exe.
- changed the IDE files to build NetHackW.exe instead of
nethackw.exe. This is only cosmetic, but consistent with the
other executable.
- made a small change to pcmain.c, as the MinGW linker
cannot decide between main() and WinMain() when both are
present, as explained in <Someone>'s original
message. (I used a #ifndef instead of comments ;-)
The MinGW graphical build indeed seems to work.
Part I: it's possible to use two-weapon combat while wielding a
lance (which seems odd to me); the second weapon would hit even if the
the first delivered a lance jousting blow that knocked the target away.
Part II: always getting the joust knockback effect when hitting
with a lance while mounted was too powerful; implement a suggestion
from the newsgroup that it be a random chance based on skill level.
Related: it's now possible to break your lance when hitting; when
adding that, I noticed that it was theoretically possible (didn't try
to reproduce) for a shattered boomerang or mirror to yield the stagger
bonus sometimes given for unarmed attacks.
<Someone> reported several incorrect death messages
1) "petrified by deliberately gazing at Medusa's hideous countenance" is
too long and won't fit on the tombstone. I reworded it, which also better
reflects that Medusa's gaze is really an active attack.
2) "killed by war hammer named Mjollnir" for partly identified Mjollnir now
says "killed by a war hammer named Mjollnir".
3) "using a magical horn on himself" was missing the "killed by" prefix
4) there were supposedly cases the the a/an article was missing after being
killed by a monster. I didn't see where this was occuring (eg AoLS resets
killer_format before it returns), but now done_in_by always resets
killer_format, which should address any such cases.
If race is set to random and role is set to something
specific, the Qt interface sometimes hangs trying to
determine an appropriate race/role.
This patch that fixes the problem, and makes 'random'
work more appropriately.
Prompted by a message to the list from <Someone> which noted that your
strength controls the traps effect, not the steed's strength, although the
messages say otherwise. Changed this case to use mintrap to determine what
happens.
teleds now needs to handle the case where an uncarried ball starts out
inactive, but becomes active as a result of teleporting out of a monster
while engulfed.
Soft "helmets" don't protect against falling rocks, but did protect against
piercers. Update the checks so only hard (metallic) helmets provide this
protection. The same report quibbled about using the word "helmet" for
soft head coverings. This patch does not address that quibble.
Fix the reported problem of getting impossible warnings for unpaid
inventory items during final disclosure if you level teleport out of
the dungeon while holding shop goods. The fix makes you trigger a shop
robbery first; that required a minor end of game change to prevent the
shopkeeper from seeming to tag along (shk would take your possessions
as if you'd died on the shop level).
Put in the missing parentheses that <Someone> reported; I don't know
how much that's going to impact experience calculations. Also, update
some related code that didn't reflect the increase in default speed
from 10 to 12 back in 3.3.0.
use get_adjacent_loc() rather than getdir() directly for some things where
you want to ensure valid adjacent coordinates are returned
<email deleted> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I've noticed that the loot adjacent spot code doesn't have any
>>> isok(x,y) test, so will risk crashing if used at the edge of
>>> the screen (whether deliberately, or accidentally due to being
>>> confused or stunned when picking the direction).
>> Would this not be a problem elsewhere, such as use_leash() too?
> Yes, that looks like the same risk. getdir() doesn't validate
> that the <u.ux+u.dx, u.uy,u.dy> is safe and neither does m_at(),
> so their callers need to.
>
> I did manage to provoke a crash with #loot on the plane of earth,
> although an accidental case would be a lot less likely to happen.
From a bug report. I haven't looked closely, but I think this bug is just
in the development code. If you dig in a shop with a wand while carrying
unpaid stuff, the shopkeeper would grab your pack, including the wand but
w/o clearing current_wand. It seems the right thing is to just not grab
the current_wand, since it's not in your pack while you're zapping it.
In 3.4.0, you lost the wand too.
Reported to the list. Player breaks a wand of digging causing the
shopkeeper to fall. This didn't clear unpaid items. For now, this can
only occur due to player action, so added a call to make_angry_shk to
handle this situation.
If you level teleported while on a sleeping steed, a panic and possibly a
crash would occur. I believe the same would occur by digging a hole. This
was due to keepdogs avoiding keeping sleeping pets. In these cases, it
seems there's no reason for the sleeping steed to _not_ accompany you.
Since other ways of changing level (eg stairs) don't allow this, just added
a check to keepdogs to allow the steed to go with you.
From the newsgroup: explosions handle their own shield effect
display for resisting monsters and it was ignoring user's negation
of the sparkle option to suppress shield effect.
Forwarded from the newsgroup: when a monster gets hit by wand or
spell of polymorph, any armor that fell off was protected from being
hit by that same zap, but a dropped weapon wasn't. Nor was the whole
dropped inventory in the case where the monster is killed by system
shock rather than transformed. Protect its entire inventory.
Being Stunned now disallows teleport control. Confusion may affect ability
to control level teleports, but only after asking for the destination.
Made confused level teleport failures based on luck too.
However, they could ride. Marilith is similar, but since it's MZ_LARGE,
that check disallowed riding. Added a check for slithy(), like
canwearobj() already has.
From the newsgroup: temples attended by high priests on the Astral
Plane (also in Moloch's Sanctum, although that one doesn't really matter)
give a different entry greeting than usual in order to conceal the altar's
alignment, but they were including the patron deity in the priest name
given as presenter of the message ("The high priest of Offler intones:").
From the newsgroup: traps created on the location of dug out vault
walls would be left in place when/if the vault guard repaired the walls.
Since known traps get precedence over walls when drawing the map, this
produced a display oddity in addition to the topological one.
It also appears that monsters in affected spots wouldn't be handled
correctly if they happened to be in a direct horizontal or vertical line
with the guard. I don't know whether that matches any of the assorted
unresolved old vault bugs.
This eliminates a chunk of redundant code by merging two loops.
Pulled out the code that handles reading spellbooks while confused into a
new function that can be called from learn() to handle the timed onset of
confusion starting while you're reading.
- Show splash on "Help - About" with all version information
- Show splash with news on startup (if show_splash is on of course).
I made another small patch to the splash screen. Because the greenish background colour always seemed a little odd to me, I decided
to make it transparent. Doing that, I found the following:
- The splash picture was a 24-bit bitmap, although it had less than 256 colours. That makes the size of the final executable about
200K larger than necessary. I changed it to a 256-colour bitmap. I also changed the background colour to the default tile background
colour, for consistency. The new bitmap is attached here. My excuses if the large file means a problem to anyone.
- In Microsoft's documentation (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/bitmaps_2y9g.asp) is is
stated that on Windows 95/98 "TransparentBlt contains a memory leak that can exhaust system resources." It is recommended to use
different code to draw transparent bitmaps, to be precise: the alternative code that is already in nhapply_image_transparent(). I'm
almost convinced that this is the cause for Betabug B08008 reported bij <Someone>. Can anyone confirm he is using 95/98? I decided
for the easy way out and removed the code that uses TransparentBlt completely. I see not much reason to use it if it is a) buggy and
b) we have an alternative that works perfectly. This is attached as trans.patch.
- The rest of the patch only changes the BitBlt() in mhsplash.c to a nhapply_image_transparent().
Here is one more patch (see attachment). It does TranslateCharsetInfo
to map codepage to a character set. I am not sure if it will help though.
Japanese Windows is using codepage 932 and I don't think IBMgraphics
will work too well in this codepage.
AFAIK, there is no way in win32 to force arbitrary codepage for a font
(CP 437 in case of Nethack). That means IBMgraphics is unlikely to work
if the system locale is set to something other than US or Western Europe
(CP 437 & 850).
-<Someone>
Added code to flooreffects() to implement this suggestion from <Someone>.
It kicks in while blind, only affects objects of some bulk, and also only
things dropped at your location. The map_background currently doesn't
do anything since the dropped object is remembered on top, but this will
avoid a bug if we ever add invisible objects.
When Angels were introduced, they were always lawful. Somewhere along the
line, non-lawful angels were added, but is_lminion and uses of it was never
updated to address this change. Among other things, this resulted in
non-lawful angels delivering messages via #chat that are only appropriate
for lawful angels. That is addressed simply by changing the definition of
is_lminion, which must take a struct monst, not a permonst, to return valid
results. Also, non-lawful angels should summon appropriate monsters, not
lawful minions.
When the player is poly'd to a giant, it was a bit odd that boulders
weren't listed in the throw menu, especially since the usual check for them
is throws_rocks. Since statues are not appropriate, I added this thru yet
another ugly check in getobj.
Attacking with a polearm while mounted behaves differently than
while on foot, so make mounting and dismounting when wielding one adjust
weapon status accordingly. Don't give a bashing message on first attack
if you mount with a polearm already wielded; do give one on your next
hand-to-hand attack if you just dismounted with one wielded.
Override confusion and hallucination when revealing the map with
<ctrl/F> in wizard mode. This also renames the `#poly' extended command
to `#polyself' and adds several one-line comments.
You won't be hallucinating at the end of a prayer which reveals
the Castle passtune even if you were hallucinating before hand, so
there's no point in adding joke messages in that case. Also, you
can't pray while unconscious, so ignore the soundok flag when dealing
with that tune; otherwise the player could toggle that option off in
order to bypass the tune result in favor of the golden glow effect.
