Adds two monsters originally from slash'em. I used the slash'em
tiles this time, also its code as a starting point but made various
revisions. Both the tiles could benefit from some touch-ups.
displacer beast: blue 'f'. Attempting a melee hit (ie, trying to
move to its spot) has a 50:50 chance for it to swap places with you.
Fairly tough monster to begin with, then half your ordinary attacks
effectively miss and if you try to face a mob by retreating to a
corridor or backing into a corner you can end up being drawn back
into the open. I added bargethrough capability, and also it won't
be fooled about hero's location by Displacement. [It only swaps
places during combat when contact is initiated by the hero, not
when attacked by another monster or when attacking.]
genetic engineer: green 'Q'. Its attack causes the target to be
polymorphed unless that target resists. Hero will almost always
have magic resistance by the time this monster is encountered, but
it can make conflict become risky by hitting and polymorphing other
monsters. Slash'em flagged it hell-only but I took that flag off;
I also took away its ability to teleport. Slash'em polymorphs the
hero if a genetic engineer corpse is eaten; that's included and I
introduced that for monsters too.
I added both of these to the list of candidates for monster spell
'summon nasties' and for post-Wizard harassment.
I also gave all the 'f's infravision. Probably only matters if the
hero polymorphs into a feline.
Displacer beast is originally from AD&D which depicts it as a six-
legged cougar with a pair of tentacles; it has Displacement rather
be able to affect an attacker's location. I think genetic engineer
is original to slash'em where it expands Q class but seems mainly to
be the base monster for Dr.Frankenstein (a unique monster with a
one-level side-branch lair in slash'em's incarnation of Gehennom).
Changes to be committed:
modified: doc/fixes35.0
modified: win/share/gifread.c
modified: win/share/monsters.txt
modified: win/share/objects.txt
modified: win/share/other.txt
modified: win/share/tile2bmp.c
modified: win/share/tilemap.c
The tty code already had the statue patch included, where
statues are represented by stone versions similar in
appearance to their monster likeness.
This extends it to tiles.
A new pass through the monsters.txt file is done
in tile2bmp to include new modified tiles to the output
file that are gray-scaled versions for mapping to the
NetHack statue glyphs.
> While looking at the tiles.bmp file, I've found some more mistakes like
> this : the Wizard of Yendor's shadow is touching Croesus' tile, and one
> of Orcus' wing is touching Yeenoghu's tile.
> marked as "placeholder." It is the tile for Neferet the Green,
> a green-colored wizard for the updated Wizard's quest.
It's not great, but the best I can do without her looking like some
sort of Zombie (most of the tiles try to follow rules - dark-green=zombie,
green=gnome, blue=dwarf, etc. in order that the player can recognize the
patterns, rather than concentrating too much on the details).
