Grimrock

I had asked:
So I can dynamically spawn walls and invisible walls. I also can use the destroy() command on these walls and they can be removed. Cool.
But how about one of the walls you placed in the editor? No idea how to access that let alone remove it. Any ideas?

I figured it out. First you use the entitiesAt() command. You get a table of whatever is in that square. In it will be the walls, pillars, floors and ceilings you defined in the editor! The IDs are system generated and they seem to increase each time the map is played. But you can read the "name" attribute to determine what type of entity it is. So you can look for any "wall" name and call destroy() on it. The wall disappears.

UPDATE: Damn it! I had no clipping on it the editor. Sure the wall texture disappears but the invisible wall doesn't. You can't walk thru it. And when you list entities at the square that is wall, you get nothing. UGH. This is tough.

UPDATE 2: So the map object has getAutomapTile() and setAutomapTile(). This is the values you see in dungeon.lua in the "tiles" table. And I can change them to, setAutomapTile changes it. But it doesn't change a thing. I still can't walk thru the squares and nothing visually is altered. I thought I found it. NOPE. Maybe I won't. Maybe we can't do it. Seems like a FAIL if we can't.

I'm not 100% sure what you want, but cant you just create the map without the wall you need and then place a secret door and destroy that? or if you can do it when you spawn it yourself, spawn the wall at the start of the game

Yes, maybe I could start with a blank room and spawn walls where I need them to be. But its got to be easier than that. You can change almost anything in this game but you can't change the flag in a square to say its not a wall any more? There needs to be a way to do this.

You can't destroy wallsl made with Tiles , but yes , if you place (and not necessery spawn) a wall as object , you can destroy it.

If you want modifiable obstacles on the maps, I would start off with a blank map and then use an invisible_wall object (which handles the blocking and projectile collisions) along with the wall objects themselves that provide the visuals.

antti wrote:If you want modifiable obstacles on the maps, I would start off with a blank map and then use an invisible_wall object (which handles the blocking and projectile collisions) along with the wall objects themselves that provide the visuals.

I am started to do that approach. The easiest way is to enable/disable obstacle components for the invisible walls and I was hoping also enable/disable the models for the wall textures. But as stated in another thread, disabling textures sometimes does not work correctly. I can create/destroy the textures and it works but hopefully enable/disable will work too at some point.

Thanks