Grimrock

UncleSporky wrote: Perhaps in a new dungeon of your own creation, but I highly doubt it'd be possible with the existing dungeon. Where would you put them? The maps seem limited to 32x32 and most spaces are occupied on one floor or another, and the fact that not all floors are fully connected with themselves makes it hardly useful. Half the time you'd be connecting to pits from the floor above and not the main floor area.

For example, you could say you're going to put the stairs in the lower right hand corner of all maps. That would connect to...

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A random room a third of the way through floor 1, the skeleton ambush room on floor 2, a spider room on floor 3, halfway through Trails of Thought on floor 4, the pits under Trails of Thought on floor 5, some small rooms you warp to on floor 6...and then you'd break right into the middle of existing rooms on floor 7. Tunnels on 8, take a chunk out of the Pillared Hallway on 9, a chunk out of tunnels on 10, the middle of the Fighter's Challenge on 11...Prison and Cemetary would be fine, though.

Drax wrote:They'd go in different places on different levels (the winding stairs). You don't need a lot of space, roughly 5 tiles per map which, even on the busiest map (4, I think), has plenty of places. I'm presuming the levels are situated on an empty plane (which is why it's easy to put in another part of it not connected to the whole). So if you noclipped through, you'd be in empty space. If they are, after that it's just adding in tiles & connecting it all up. The ability to connect floors is already in game, you use it every time you go up/down stairs.

This, again, is all working under the presumption the mod tools will have a decent amount of depth.

Minax wrote:
A possibility to circumvent the dungeon layout issue when using the staircase idea would be to use a teleporter room instead. A central room with teleporters to every level, teleporters locked behind doors. Just need to add a key and a teleporter on every floor that leads to the "central teleporter room".

takis76 wrote:A nice idea could be teleporter room and you can register destinations in the teleport (Like checkpoints) and then you can transport to a level you have register or activated in the teleporter (Like teleport device on the wall , hmmm nice idea for my own Eye of the Beholder) Dungeon master have some special pads you could able to teleport.

I obviously haven't had a chance to look at the coding behind floor to floor movement, but I have a feeling floors can't makes changes on other floors within the game. So any teleportation would need to be written statically as a mod (rather than dynamically ingame).

char *floors[13][32][32][4];

 Dim levels[50][32][32][4] as string

struct {

   int x;
   int y;
   int direction;
   int destination_direction;
   int destination_level;
   int destination_x;
   int destination_y;

} my_stairs[50][100];

//setting one stair at position 6,7 on level 1 and goes to level 2 at position 3,3
my_stairs[1][1].x=6;
my_stairs[1][1].y=7;
my_stairs[1][1].destination_direction=1;
my_stairs[1][1].destination_level=2;
my_stairs[1][1].destination_x=3;
my_stairs[1][1].destination_y=3;

struct {
   int x;
   int y;
   int direction;
   int level;
} party;

if (party.x==stairs[party.level][1].x && party.y==stairs[party.level][1].y)
{
//changing level and position on the map
party.x=stairs[party.level][1].destination_x;
party.y=stairs[party.level][1].destination_y;
party.level=stairs[party.level][1].destination_level;
party.direction=stairs[party.level][1].destination_direction;
}