I'll push a formatting guide at some point. There may still be
outstanding changes, but please feel free to resolve those as you arrive
a them.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no changes to the actual code
content, but the formatter does have the occasional bug. If you run into
an issue, please fix it!
From a bug report: in the irregularly
shaped temple on the C quest home level (the room where the leader is
located), the lit south wall contained a dark spot where a secret door
is located. It stayed blank until you got right next to it rather than
just until you got to a good angle facing it. (Magic mapping hides the
problem by showing that spot as a wall instead of leaving it as unseen;
you have to walk or teleport to that room in order to see the problem.)
The code that lights walls and doors which border lit rooms neglected
temporary walls produced by secret doors.
From a bug report, when ice on the Valkyrie
quest home level was melted and a boulder filled the resulting pool, that
pool was described as a moat. This was actually a terrain issue rather
than a formatting glitch, so instead of tweaking waterbody_name() with an
extra special case, extend the level compiler to allow specifying ice as
frozen pool instead of always being frozen moat. There's no provision
for having both types of ice on the same level, just a level-wide flag to
control which of the two applies for ice on that level.
This change has a side-effect for the V quest levels: once ice has
been melted, a second blast of fire will now boil away the pool and leave
a pit. The unfrozen water locations on the home level already behaved
that way (ie, they are pools rather than moats) so this should be ok. I
also added <Someone>'s suggestion to make one of the two drawbridges
on the goal level start in random state instead of always being open.
There's a newsgroup posting about building for Windows using minGW
(gcc) within the cygwin Unix emulation environment, and it includes diffs
for the changes used. One of the items being patched is a straight source
bug triggered by altering the definition of `boolean'. finish_map()'s
prototype doesn't match its definition (uses boolean args but has XCHAR_P
in the prototype).
remove_rooms() was trying to be clever and truncate the maximum room bounds
in partially overlapping rooms. In the process, it would truncate the
bounds of L shaped rooms incorrectly, leaving some locations outside the
bounds with the roomno field set. Since the maximum bounds really do not
have to actually match the largest extent of the room in the case of
irregular rooms, it was easiest to just remove the code that was performing
the incorrect truncation. Due to the way remove_room() is coded, this
could result in shopkeeper messages (or, less likely, priest messages,
although that has not been reported yet) occuring for locations to the
right (or the upper/lower right corner) of the MAP on the Bustling Town level.
This solution is mostly a band-aid. Make sure information set by join_map
that is overlaid by the MAP is cleared out. This ensures that place_branch
will never consider invalid data. A new function, remove_rooms(), with a
helper, remove_room(), takes care of this, but only for rooms created by
join_map, which addresses the only known case that causes this problem.
There's a possibility that some other strange behavior, especially in
minetn-6, will be fixed by this as well. The problem of disconnected caves
on minetn-6 is not yet addressed.
Also, add a check to lev_comp.y to make sure the required fg semantics of
joined levels (fg must be ROOM or CORR) are actually met. Doesn't affect
any levels currently included in the distro, but might address levels
others are trying to make.
