Three fixes, the first leading to the need to fix the second, and that
fix making dealing with the third be straightforward.
First, make the furthest level reached in any given branch be considered
interesting by #overview, even if no interesting features have been
encountered. This will result in listing Gnomish Mines and their first
level when someone goes down the stairs and immediately back up. It will
also produce a reminder of how far you've been--in each branch--after
retreating for any reason, without the need to manually add an annotation.
Second, #overview was suppressing the range of level numbers for Sokoban
because the author realized that the values were wrong. The record of
the furthest level reached was incorrect for builds-up branches, always
sticking with the deepest level even though it was the entrance. The
overview patch neglected to do the same suppression for Vlad's Tower and
the level range ("36 to 38" or similar) there was wrong. This fixes the
furthest level reached problem and also fixes #overview's level range
handling for builds-up branches.
Third and last, a long-standing issue which I don't think has ever been
formally reported: the level difficulty calculation used for monster
creation treated the upper (harder to get to) levels of builds-up branches
as if they were easier since they're closer to the surface as the gopher
burrows. So sokoban generated easier monsters on its final level than on
the ones leading up to that. Make depth for difficulty purposes account
for descent to the entrance and then ascent to the level of interest.
There was a distressing amount of trial and error involved. The dungeon
layout structures are not exactly easy to work with, and I never managed
to get builds_up() based on branch data to work correctly. Basing it on
dungeon data works as intended provided the branch has more than one
level, but it will yield incorrect result if we ever add a single-level
branch reached via stairs up rather than stairs down.
Changes to be committed:
modified: dat/tribute
I've also added some of Boudewijn's suggestions and
added his name in a comment for easy reference
when validating the content agains the book.
mtmp->cham was NON_PM, which select_newcham_form interpreted as a completely
random form. This also resulted Vlad getting a random shape, and not getting
the Candelabrum, making the game unwinnable.
Changes to be committed:
modified: src/version.c
modified: sys/share/cppregex.cpp
modified: sys/share/pmatchregex.c
modified: sys/share/posixregex.c
modified: util/makedefs.c
Some options in 3.6.0 are determined by what you link with.
The choice of regex support is one.
Let #version show that linked option along with the compile-time options.
Change "Shall I pick your priest/priestess' race, gender, ..." prompt
to "... priest/priestess's ...".
Unfortunately that makes it long enough to push the cursor onto the
next line for basic 80 column display. If caveman/cavewoman's wasn't
already longer I think I would have left the clumsier phrasing/spelling.
Change end of game disclosure's display for strength, dexterity, &c to
always show the maximum possible value instead of only when the final
value was less than maximum. For both end of game and ^X, change the
description from "limit" to "innate limit" if the current value exceeds
limit due to worn items (gauntlets of power, +N ring of adornment, &c).
Error reported in display.c in current master code is gone,
but the menucolors stuff generated the following warnings when TEXTCOLOR wasn't defined.
..\win\tty\wintty.c(1688) : warning C4013: 'term_start_color' undefined; assuming extern returning int
..\win\tty\wintty.c(1711) : warning C4013: 'term_end_color' undefined; assuming extern returning int
When reading a passage from a tribute novel, put the final attribution
line "[$TITLE, by Terry Pratchett]" into message history, comparable to
the summary line for deliver-by-window quest messages.
Flesh out _The_Last_Hero_. Due to its publishing history (no ordinary
paperback, some lists of "other books by this author" miscategorize it
as being co-written by the illustrator) it's most likely not as widely
read as the other Discworld books.
Changes to be committed:
modified: src/display.c
The work for getting this working fully is now moving to the background_tiles branch.
In master, we just return the standard lit room tile for now, no change in behavior.
No ports utilize the new parameter as yet.
Add MG_OBJPILE flag, which windowports can use to check if a location
has more than one object stack. If use_inverse is on, TTY will use
inverse to show such piles. If a boulder is the topmost item on a pile,
then the object pile flag is not used; mainly because boulders are "solid",
boulders dropped by monsters are nearly always over other objects, and so
that special levels such a Sokoban can "hide" items under the boulders.
TODO: a "pilemark", analogous to "petmark", perhaps a green plus sign,
which can be used by windowports with tiles.
Changes to be committed:
modified: doc/window.doc
modified: include/qt_win.h
modified: include/trampoli.h
modified: include/winX.h
modified: include/wingem.h
modified: include/winprocs.h
modified: include/wintty.h
modified: src/display.c
modified: src/windows.c
modified: sys/amiga/winami.p
modified: sys/amiga/winfuncs.c
modified: sys/amiga/winproto.h
modified: sys/wince/mswproc.c
modified: sys/wince/winMS.h
modified: win/Qt/qt_win.cpp
modified: win/X11/winmap.c
modified: win/chain/wc_chainin.c
modified: win/chain/wc_chainout.c
modified: win/chain/wc_trace.c
modified: win/gem/wingem.c
modified: win/gem/wingem1.c
modified: win/gnome/gnbind.c
modified: win/tty/wintty.c
modified: win/win32/mswproc.c
modified: win/win32/winMS.h
print_glyph now takes a second parameter.
Tiles on tiled ports always looked odd on places like the plane of air
where the background color of the tile didn't match the general background
of the surrounding area.
3.6 made that even worse and more glaringly noticeable with the introduction
of darkened room tiles.
The code to actually send something useful through the new parameter
for window ports to take advantage if they want will follow.
