[CF-Devel] Two questions

[Andreas Vogl]

Tom Barnes wrote:

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      Hi,
     
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      I suppose the *first* one must be for Mark, he being the
     
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      main coordinatory bloke:
     
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      The project is generally accepted to be aiming for Version 1
     
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      Real Soon Now, and it sounds like the idea right now is to be
     
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      mainly hunting for bugs and generally straightening things out,
     
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      which is fair enough; but, is the idea that:
     
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      (a)We Finally have a Version 1 that is the wonderful official
     
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         version, and some time in the future we will maybe have a
     
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         Version 2 but we're not thinking much about that right now; OR
     
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      (b)We get a nice stable version that people can actually play
     
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         properly without crashes, so we have something to show for the
     
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         effort, and to keep everyone happy whilst work continues on
     
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         creating even better stuff, to lead to a Version 2 that we're
     
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         more interested in.
     
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      (I presume the question is clear, I'm asking what sort of attitude
     
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      we have to Version 1: (a) means we think V1=ultimate, so not seeing
     
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      much further, but (b) means we see V1 as a mere stopgap before the
     
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      next stable version.)
     
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      Probably many people would think somewhere in between, but I think
     
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      it will be only one or the other for the project!
     
     
Sorry I'm not Mark, but answer is DEFINITLY (b).
Version 1.0 should be stable so we have something to show around -
after ten years of CF development I think it is time for this.
But we have a vague roadmap for 2.0 and it is already *huge*,
if not endless.
The second V1.0 is out, we'll start attaching "fancy patches"
again. It'll continue just like before.

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      Second question is a technical one, to anyone who knows for certain:
     
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      I've designed a few maps, and a small number have floor tiles with
     
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      unique-flag set on them, so those tiles and their contents get
     
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      written to a file in "unique_items" dir. As many of them are work in
     
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      progress, but I often send my characters into the maps to test them,
     
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      I have the problem that I want to change maps that already have this
     
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      unique-object info. There is nothing on those maps that my characters
     
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      want now.
     
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      Is the approach to simply change the maps and go back, and the
     
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      loader will notice the difference, and the unique items files will
     
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      update to show those tiles aren't there any more (I suspect this will
     
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      not work), OR, to simply delete the appropriate unique-items files
     
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      (I suspect this will upset the server if it *expects* to find them)?
     
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      Perhaps there is another way?
     
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      If anyone answers this, can they say if they know because they
     
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      worked with the code, or because they have tried this themselves?
     
     
You simply delete the unique map in the player directory.
Next time your player enters that map, it will be new loaded.
(Of course you loose the items you had placed on the old map.)

And yes, I did this myself several times. Because I've been
creating maps too. Btw, check out the mapmaking-guide I've written =)
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Andreas V.