Developed for 3.6 but deferred to 3.7. Most of the testing was with
the earlier incarnation.
Report was that pronouns were accurate for the underlying monsters
when hallucination was describing something random, and also that the
gender prefix flag from bogusmon.txt wasn't being used. The latter
is still the case, but pronouns are now chosen at random while under
the influence of hallucination. One of the choices is plural and an
attempt is made to make the monster name and verb fit that usage.
|The homunculus picks up a wand of speed monster.
|The large cats zap themselves with a wand of speed monster!
|The blue dragon is suddenly moving faster.
There is no attempt to match gender for the singular cases; you might
get
|The succubus zaps himself [...]
or
|The incubus zaps herself [...]
Noticed while testing something: hero drank a potion of see invisible
and nearby invisible monster could now be seen--in theory--but I was
asked what to call the potion while the updated map was buffered. So
I didn't see the invisible monster until after naming the potion.
pline() flushes buffered map updates, but getlin() doesn't. I didn't
change that, but I've made docall() do so since the updated map may
make a difference in what the player can tell about whatever is being
'called'.
Fix the issue where a hallucinatory monster name which begins with
a slash is having that stripped off as if it was a gendor and/or
personal-name flag.
The main issue was pronouns ignoring hallucination and this doesn't
attempt to address that.
Also, add new hallucinatory name "leathery-winged avian" which has
been lurking for a while.
Game is playable, and should compile on linux and Windows.
Assumes you have a lua 5.3 library available.
Removes level compiler and associated files.
Replaces special level des-files with lua scripts.
Exposes some NetHack internals to lua:
- des-table with commands to create special levels
- nh-table with NetHack core commands
- nhc-table with some constants
- u-table with some player-specific data (u-struct)
- selection userdata
Adds some rudimentary tests.
Adds new extended command #wizloadlua to run a specific script,
and #wizloaddes to run a specific level-creation script.
nhlib.lua is loaded for every lua script.
Download and untar lua:
mkdir lib
cd lib
curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.5.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.5.tar.gz
Then make nethack normally.
Like #annotate, #name monster, #name individual object, and #name
object type are places where it makes some sense to have an existing
name be the default for the new name, in case taking off from the end
and/or adding to the end is more convenient than retyping everything.
When there is an existing name used as default, clearing that default
and hitting <return> is not enough to remove the name, you still need
to 'assign a new name' of <space> to do that.
One of the claims in #H8849 was that a monster which zapped a wand
that the hero had fully identified made hero's knowledge of it revert
to "a wand". That doesn't happen; it had to have been a different
wand which hadn't been seen up close yet. But the hero should lose
track of known number of charges if a wand is zapped outside his/her
view. When implementing that I noticed that a monster playing a fire
horn to burn away slime was using the routine that gives wand
feedback. Add a separate, similar routine for magical horn feedback.
Half this diff is due to moving a naming support routine from mhitm.c
to do_name.c.
Preserve temporary fake object's previous dknown value by storing it
as a flag value within the m_ap_type field of the posing monster, and
recalling it when it is needed.
This is intended to help eliminate observable differences in price display
between real objects and mimics posing as objects.
98% of this is just switching the code to utilize macro M_AP_TYPE(mon)
everywhere to ensure that the flag bits are stripped off when needed.
Showing the price of a shop object when examining it with '/' or ';'
didn't include a price if it was actually a mimic. This makes fake
objects have prices when appropriate, but it is only a partial fix
because moving away from a mimic causes nethack to forget the fake
object's dknown flag for most types of objects.
That could be solved by adding an mobj field to mon->mextra, which
will break save compatibility, or by adding a whole extra set of
object glyphs for object-with-dknown-set. The latter could probably
be done without breaking backwards save compatibility (new program
using old files) but it seems like more effort that it'd be worth and
it would break forwards save compatibility (old program attempting to
use new files--something we've never claimed to support).
This is based on the multiple-RNGs code fron NetHack4, but using
only the parts relevant to the display RNG (and with substantial
changes, both because of post-3.4.3 changes, and because Nethack4's
display code is based on Slash'EM's rather than NetHack's).
Some phrase substitution in getpos() or its helpers produced
``Pick a target interesting thing in view for travel''
for 'm _', which sounds pretty awkward. Change that to be
``Pick an interesting thing in view for travel destination''
leaving "target" implied.
For plain '_', typing '!' yielded
``Using a menu to show possible targets.''
but then nothing happened. Change that to be
``Using a menu to show possible targets for 'm|M', 'o|O', 'd|D',
and 'x|X'.''
to explain when a menu will actually appear.
When getting a cursor location, and there was no "valid" location
function defined, trying to go to the next or previous valid
location showed null.
Fix this by using the "interesting" locations if no valid ones.
Under some circumstances, when all the marauding orcs belonging to the
horde operating within the gnomish mines had been provided with their
spoils and placed appropriately, there could still be some pillaged stuff
left-over on the migrating obj chain. Orcs created by regular monster
generation elsewhere would then be susceptable to receiving that stuff
until it was used up. That part is fine, except that the orcs were then
being named as part of the same horde operating within the mines. Now
they will no longer be named as part of the Gnomish Mines horde.
Mythos: There's a good chance that these particular orcs received the
stolen goods from the Gnomish Mines horde.
Remove trailing spaces, and remove tabs from the files that had
trailing spaces.
Also, rndorcname() was using a random value to terminate a loop
and was recalculating a new one each iteration.
Eliminate a few warnings: array name used as boolean is always true,
parameter 'flags' shadows (blocks access to) global struct 'flags',
initializer discards 'const' (assigning string literal to 'char *').
Plus a couple of simplifications.
Changes to be committed:
modified: include/decl.h
modified: include/dungeon.h
modified: include/extern.h
modified: include/hack.h
modified: src/decl.c
modified: src/do_name.c
modified: src/dog.c
modified: src/dokick.c
modified: src/makemon.c
modified: src/mkmaze.c
modified: src/mkobj.c
modified: src/pager.c
This commit is an attempt to address the complaints about
the orc town variation taking away lots of stuff that is
normally available in mine town. The statement in the level
description says "A tragic accident has occurred in Frontier
Town...It has been overrun by orcs."
The changes in this commit attempt to uphold that premise,
while making things a bit more interesting and perhaps
more palatable for the player.
This update does the following in keeping with the mythos:
- While many of the orcs still remain to wander about the
level, many of the orcs took off deeper into the mines with
some of the stuff that they plundered. You may now be
able to hunt some of it down.
- Adds some appearance of this particular horde of marauding
orcs working as part of a larger collective.
- This evolves the Orc Town mine town variation into a
a feature over multiple levels of The Gnomish Mines,
rather than just the single-level "feature" that it was
previously.
- You may have to work longer and a bit harder for some
things than other mine town variations, but at least with
these changes, there is hope that some of it may be found
elsewhere.
Game mechanics notes (maybe spoily?)
- Add mechanism to place objects into limbo (okay, really
place them onto the migrating_objs list for transferring
between levels etc.) and destine them
to become part of the monster inventory of a particular
species. In this particular usage case, it's using the
M2_ORC flag setting to identify the recipients.
- At present, there is no mechanism in the level compiler
for placing objects onto the migrating objects, nor
with more sophisticated landing logic, so a somewhat
kludgy hard-coded fixup and supporting routines were used.
Some day the need for that might change if additional
capabilities move to the level compiler.
This is a NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 update. Please give it a workout.
Fixes#127
