I wrote to the devteam early last week:
> Given my understanding of travel, it's supposed to be somewhat intelligent,
> and "convenient", and should, therefore avoid walking into water, lava,
> traps, or other things that distant movement would avoid, even if you're
> right next it. Unless... the travel destination is the "bad" location
> next to you when the travel starts.
To that end...
- add a context (iflags in 3.4.3 to maintain savefile compat) flag to
differenciate the first travel step from later steps, to allow the
detection of the final sentence, above.
- several changes to set/reset the travel1 flag as needed
- add code to findtravelpath to treat the first step specially if it's
the only step, allowing forced travel into a "bad" location
- correct the "don't travel over traps" code, which was getting confused
because hero's starting location was being avoided
- add code to avoid traveling into water and lava, duplicating
checks used for non-travel running
- fix some strange "guess" travel behavior: avoid zigzag paths when there's
a more direct path (even though the number of moves is the same)
- trunk change adds a new DISP_ALL tmp_at type, and uses it in some debug
code for travel, debug changes not added to the 3.4.3 branch
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
> It appears that if showrace is set, and your race is not human, a
> potion of invisibility (or any other form of invisibility) doesn't cause
> your symbol to disappear on screen, even if you don't have see invisible.
- Version change from 3.4.x
- timed_delay feature ignore in makedefs
- several flags from iflags to flags
- use offsets from mons array entries in save file rather than storing
the ptr and calculating the distance from beginning of array
If the character was invisible without being able to see invisible,
his location on the map showed any object there or underlying topology
instead of the hero even when monsters could be seen with infravision,
ESP, or sustained monster detection. The ESP case required an amulet
or helm or quest artifact to be noticeable because being blind overrides
being unable to see invisible, so the more common form of telepathy
didn't exhibit this behavior.
Several flags added since 3.4.0 were destined for flags
(to be saved with the game) but were placed in iflags for
savefile compatibility. These include:
boolean lootabc; /* use "a/b/c" rather than "o/i/b" when looting */
boolean showrace; /* show hero glyph by race rather than by role */
boolean travelcmd; /* allow travel command */
int runmode; /* update screen display during run moves */
This patch has no effect unless you define this in your port's
XXconf.h file.
#define SAVEFILE_340_CONVERT /* allow moving of some iflags fields to flags
without destroying savefile compatibility */
Without it, the new flags remain in "iflags." With it, the flags are moved to
"flags" and the structures are converted when the save file is read. There
is no reverse compatibility. If you save the game after conversion, you
can't load the savefile on 3.4.0, only 3.4.1.
Replace "feature_toggle" implementation with an easier-to-understand
boolean option called "lootabc".
Provide "showrace", an option to display the hero by race glyph rather
than by role glyph.
Document the above.
Remove some obsolete Mac options.
