Grimrock

I would be more than happy to help out with this, both contributing and helping coordinate. I think we need to set some ground rules and also review each level submission. As previously mentioned, we need to check for pits, ID conflicts, unfair/ impossible set ups, designs that could crash or freeze...

petri wrote:Why not just spawn a poison cloud there?

It's times like this that make learning fun. Here I was trying to reinvent the wheel and that's all it took. Thank you so much!

Hello everyone. I'm moving my questions to this thread instead of flooding the excellent scripting example one if that is all right. So I'm trying to create a tile that damage any player or monster that steps on it, then continuously deals damage over a period of time. Here is what I currently have....

Unfortunately I'm not sure on that. I suppose it would depend on your usage of it? (Ex. Whether you wish to tie it to an Altar or have it globally affect your dungeon) Well, I appreciate the help none the less. you have been a great help! I was really just trying to use it to better understand it. ...

I just tried out the sample for the poison trap above and got this error:
bad argument #1 for 'damagetile' ( number expected, got nil)

actually, I'm an idiot and forgot to capitalize Print. Thanks though, especially the fast reponse.

now I have another question: how do I add the function to my dungeon? I know that I don't make a script entity for the new function and I think I need to save it as a .lua, but where does it go?

A couple of script functions I wrote to check if anybody in your party is carrying a particular type of item : function checkForItemParty(item) local i = 1 repeat if checkForItem(party:getChampion(i), item) then return true end i = i + 1 until i == 5 return false end function checkForItem(champion,...

insta-death square example by Montis and Xzalander - script: function instadeath() damageTile(party.level, party.x, party.y, party.facing, 128, "physical", 9001) hudPrint("You Foolish Adventurers, MWAHAHAHA!!!") end - create a hidden plate that is ONLY triggered by the party (no...

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to chime in and say that this worked wonderfully. I implemented this in a maze full of ogres and had a friends test it out. It really got him sweating! Thanks for creating awesome posts guys.

to create a "gambling" setup/machine, where you pay with a certain type of item, and then have a chance at winning a good thing or else get damaged : -------------- example from Shroom: I created 2 alcoves and a lever alcove_bet alcove_win lever_gamble Added an lua entity and put this cod...