[TOOL] Custom Dungeon Analyzer

[HaunterV]

Is it of a dungeon.lua with some floors that contain nothing?

No, its a fairly densely packed single floor dungeon, I guess I should add a second floor and see if it lets me analyze it then. Other than that it (the analyzer) looks great.

[Edsploration]

So I was going to release a major update to the tool, but my debugger decided to die on me after Firefox auto-updated itself and Firebug, making it nearly impossible for me to do anything complicated with my code. There's some compatibility issues between Aptana Debugger, Firebug, and Firefox. After hours of trying combinations of older versions, I still can't get it working again. I ended up backtracking and implementing just one simple feature:

Hey Eds, could I bug you for one more feature, please? As my dungeon grows, I'm finding it difficult to keep track of secrets. Would it be possible to add a column that features # of secrets per floor? That would also make it easier to let others know where thy are (as opposed to LoG, which only tells the player the total in-game) without having to keep track manually.

"Secrets" are now tallied in the top Dungeon Overview table, but not mentioned below in the Content Tables.

am i missing something? i cut n paste my dungeon lua for my single floor dungeon and it seems to do nothing...

I can't seem to duplicate this behavior. Make sure you have javascript enabled. If that's not it, could you send me a copy of your dungeon.lua file?

[SpiderFighter]

"Secrets" are now tallied in the top Dungeon Overview table, but not mentioned below in the Content Tables.

It works brilliantly, thanks so much! Hopefully, things will get working again once they catch up to firefox. i hate random updates without permisson.

[Ixnatifual]

This is a pretty cool tool. I really hope you add item tracking to it!

[Phitt]

Great tool, thanks! Unfortunately it doesn't count custom monsters (cloned/defined). Any chance you could implement that by reading the monsters.lua?

[Edsploration]

Great tool, thanks! Unfortunately it doesn't count custom monsters (cloned/defined). Any chance you could implement that by reading the monsters.lua?

Oh, of course, great idea! I'll put it on my to-do list!

[mahric]

I've tested this tool with the example dungeon and it looks very promising!

Though the dungeon.lua from my mod "the wine merchant's basement' does nothing either.

- It's not my javascript since other dungeons are working.
- Tried it on firefox and internet explorer, both without result.

The whole source of my dungeon can be downloaded at http://www.brehler.nl/grimrock/wmb_source.zip if you need the source to see what's happening.
Might be the size of the script? 282kB?

[Komag]

I really wanted to try this but it's not working for me either

Here's my dungeon.lua:

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Forum limit is 60,000 characters, my dungeon is 1,497,303 characters, not even close!

[Radar6590]

Wow this is a great tool. I just tried it out on my in-progress dungeon and it works great. Allowed me to balance a little experience issue between levels.

A few things to note: Your tool doesn't account for drop down areas that can be accessed on a previous level, so if you are relying on that experience counting towards that level, it can make things appear more unbalanced than they are with your tool. (i.e., you have secret challenge room on level 5 accessible from level 4 it may seem that level 4 is under powered compared to 3, or that level 5 is very overpowered.) Obviously you must use your discretion.

As for the suggested party lvl/dungeon level, instead of just using the highest level monster to come to this number, why not average it? At the moment, for example, if you had a dungeon with monster levels like this (I'm making up these numbers):

2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1

Your suggested level would be 4. The average of these numbers is 2.3, or 2. I think that's a more accurate representation than your current method.

Also Komag holy cow your dungeon must be huge. I have four levels completed (barring editing, balancing) so far and mine's only 160,000 characters*. O.o

[Drakkan]

I was just discussing this topic
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5057
as per Komags message

it would be great if someone would make a tool that analyzed the dungeon.lua and then figured what was used, then copied only the used things to a new dungeon directory tree, then we could go there and do the export.

so just wonder if your tool is able to do something like that with some improvements ?