Grimrock

Either way, the most important thing to decide on here is the desired power level. The highest damage output in Isle of Nex by far is from light weapons characters. I think this level of damage output is good for this mod, and the rest of the weapon classes can be adjusted to match it (this is what I did in MinAssets, except for throwing weapons). Because the mod is somewhat longer than Isle of Nex, it might be most appropriate to give out equivalents to the top tier standard weapons (moonblade, bone blade, cutlass) in or slightly before twisted forest and give slightly better ones in or slightly before dark tower. Although, this is confounded by the best weapons in Isle of Nex being obtainable quite early.

I have the appropriate art assets finished to make a room in the town outskirts (there's a big chunk of free space), if another room is wanted. And it will be way smaller than
3 MB this time.
I also have a third room concept that I'd be happy to implement, which would fit almost anywhere.

Either way, the most important thing to decide on here is the desired power level. The highest damage output in Isle of Nex by far is from light weapons characters. I think this level of damage output is good for this mod, and the rest of the weapon classes can be adjusted to match it (this is what I did in MinAssets, except for throwing weapons). Because the mod is somewhat longer than Isle of Nex, it might be most appropriate to give out equivalents to the top tier standard weapons (moonblade, bone blade, cutlass) in or slightly before twisted forest and give slightly better ones in or slightly before dark tower. Although, this is confounded by the best weapons in Isle of Nex being obtainable quite early.

I have the appropriate art assets finished to make a room in the town outskirts (there's a big chunk of free space), if another room is wanted. And it will be way smaller than
3 MB this time.
I also have a third room concept that I'd be happy to implement, which would fit almost anywhere.

Also, if you are still interested, I could start making an adaptation and selection of my spells pack to add it to the project.

Jgwman wrote:

Either way, the most important thing to decide on here is the desired power level. The highest damage output in Isle of Nex by far is from light weapons characters. I think this level of damage output is good for this mod, and the rest of the weapon classes can be adjusted to match it (this is what I did in MinAssets, except for throwing weapons). Because the mod is somewhat longer than Isle of Nex, it might be most appropriate to give out equivalents to the top tier standard weapons (moonblade, bone blade, cutlass) in or slightly before twisted forest and give slightly better ones in or slightly before dark tower. Although, this is confounded by the best weapons in Isle of Nex being obtainable quite early.

You're just suggesting to rebalance the loot around the highest (or close to highest) tier at approx. Twisted Forest? That's fine with me. Obviously it needs rebalancing since it was essentially done independently per room, and I don't have much of an opinion of how exactly we balance it. If that difficulty feels right to you, I'll take your word on it. A friend who was testing found the majority of the mod to be fairly easy combat wise (on normal, I believe) as it currently is (with a heavy/light/ranged/mage party), so having the high tier weapons available *before* the Forest would be too much IMO, but within is fine.

Jgwman wrote:

I have the appropriate art assets finished to make a room in the town outskirts (there's a big chunk of free space), if another room is wanted. And it will be way smaller than
3 MB this time.
I also have a third room concept that I'd be happy to implement, which would fit almost anywhere.

I'm assuming you mean the southwest corner of Town East? Fine with me, if you think it'll fit. I don't necessarily think another room is needed, assuming that the scheduled rooms actually end up implemented, but I don't see why it hurts either. That applies to your third room, too.

I'd say if you believe the between areas lacking decoration is a significant issue, that should probably have precedence (though you probably have enough time or you wouldn't have offered). Personally, I don't see this as a significant issue, but I'm obviously not offended by improvements.

local spellbookInit = function(self, champion, slot)
	if self.go.item:getUiName() == "UNINITIALIZED" then
		local title = self.go.spells:getScrollText():match("^[^\n]*")
		if title then
			self.go.item:setUiName(title)
			local list = self.go.spells:getScrollText():sub(title:len()+2)
			if list then
				list = list:gsub("[\t\n]","")
				self.go.spells:setScrollText(list)
				list = list:split(';')
				self.go.item:setWeight(0.3+math.floor(#list/2)*0.1)
				self.go.spellscrollitem:setSpell(list[1])
				return
			end
			Console.warn(string.format("spellbook %s has no spells specified!",self.go.id))
		else
			Console.warn(string.format("spellbook %s has no title specified!",self.go.id))
		end
	end
end
local spellbookCleanup = function(self)
	if self.go.map then
		self.go:removeComponent("script")
		self.go:removeComponent("controller")
		self.go:removeComponent("timer")
		if self.go.spells:getScrollText():count(";") == 0 then
			self.go:removeComponent("usableitem")
		end
	end
end
defineObject{
	name = "g1_spellbook",
	baseObject = "base_item",
	components = {
		{
			class = "Model",
			model = "assets/models/items/tome.fbx",
			material = "g1_spellbook",
		},
		{ -- Because this isn't named "scrollitem" it won't be displayed to the player
		-- The first line is the name to give the book. The second line is the list of
		-- spells the book contains, separated by semicolons. The order the spells are
		-- specified in the list is the order they will be in the book. Tabs and
		-- newlines in the spell names are ignored, but SPACES ARE NOT (this is because
		-- people often define spells with spaces in the names...blame those people)
			class = "ScrollItem",
			name = "spells",
			scrollText = "Larry's Guide to Fire\nfireburst;fireball;fire_shield;meteor_storm",
		},
		{
			class = "SpellScrollItem",
			spell = "ice_shards", -- Just make this any valid spell; it will be overwritten immediately by the spell list
		},
		{
			class = "Item",
			uiName = "UNINITIALIZED",
			gameEffect = "Right-click to turn page",
			gfxAtlas = "mod_assets/g1/items/icons.tga",
			gfxIndex = 26,
			weight = 0.4,
			--onInit = spellbookInit,
		},
		{
			class = "UsableItem",
			onUseItem = function(self, champion)
				playSound("map_turn_page")
				local list = self.go.spells:getScrollText():split(';')
				local curSpell = self.go.spellscrollitem:getSpell()
				if curSpell == list[#list] then -- wrap around
					self.go.spellscrollitem:setSpell(list[1])
				else
					self.go.spellscrollitem:setSpell(list[table.indexOf(list,curSpell)+1])
				end
				return false
			end,
		},
		{
			class = "Script",
			source = "self.go.controller:activate()",
		},
		{
			class = "Controller",
			onActivate = spellbookInit,
		},
		{
			class = "Timer",
			timerInterval = 0,
			onActivate = spellbookCleanup,
		},
	},
}