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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0009489Valley 1Bug - Room IssuesSep 10, 2012 11:41 am
ReporterPyrrhic Assigned To 
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version1.206 
Summary0009489: Building/cave generation: multiple rooms never lead into one (ascending)
DescriptionSomeone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I've never seen a building where 2 or more rooms connect to 1, higher-floor room (excluding secret links).
To use ASCII to illustrate, I've seen the following room arrangement plenty of times:

[B] [C]
[ A ]

Where room A is one floor closer to the building entrance.
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I think I've never seen a building with this room arrangement:

[ Z ]
[X] [Y]

Where rooms X and Y are on the same floor, both have doorways that enter into room Z, and rooms X&Y are one floor closer to the entrance than room Z.
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(Note that since cave dungeon maps are built from the top down, these examples would be turned upside down when it comes to caves).

This is not a major issue, but it would add that much more variety to the different ways that buildings and caves can be created.

One unintentional change this could make, would be that a double-sized room no longer meant that it led into either 2 single-sized rooms, or another double-sized room: It could also mean that it was simply reachable by 2 rooms, and had no reachable rooms after it. A "room z" could have 1 or 2 rooms after it, or it could have none. I suppose if it led to just one room, that room would also be double-sized? In short, this change might be at least initially confusing for players.

Lastly, it may be possible that the in-game code simply won't allow rooms to be generated like in the XYZ example.
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tigersfan

Sep 10, 2012 11:41 am

reporter   ~0028303

It's actually just a quirk of the "graph" type map. Note that just because a room is higher in the graph doesn't mean that it's actually a higher floor, only that it's further from the exit. With the way this map type works, you won't see the connections heading "down" in the way you are suggesting.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Sep 5, 2012 7:14 pm Pyrrhic New Issue
Sep 10, 2012 11:41 am tigersfan Internal Weight => New
Sep 10, 2012 11:41 am tigersfan Note Added: 0028303
Sep 10, 2012 11:41 am tigersfan Status new => closed
Sep 10, 2012 11:41 am tigersfan Resolution open => no change required