*The Adventurers' Guild

hmm, hmm, might still work out

I am now able to build all the nodes and the leaves of the Huffman tree...
next up: assigning "0"'s and "1"'s where appropriate.

Not going to spam the forum with every progress that I made... I'll hold the code until it's finished.

Are you sure about the hit points?
No difference between classes or races?
It would mean a starting HP range of 15-29, are you sure 15 is indeed the lowest? I thought I have seen lower then 15, but not sure.

Would be fun to recreate some places from other fantasy worlds... Like a level with only a few rows of pillars like in Moria... with a balrog encounter somewhere :) Or a chamber with pools of lava and a bridge, like the bridge of Khazad-dum There's a pool of lava on the 5th floor of Mangars tower. I...

Creating forced encounters with 255 monsters didn't give me any issues. I created a group of 255 skeletons and let my wizard(s) use DRBR, REDE, my bard used a horn on them, my pet dragon sneezed on them, my monk smashed bones.. all without issues

lol, so not only you want me (or someone else) to do your homework, but you also want me to explain it to you? :) tbh, the first part (script above) is easy enough to understand. If you can't figure that out yourself, then maybe you should try and get another assignement. As for the rest of the scri...

hmm.. interesting.
They seem to first build the tree with all the leaves and nodes and then traverse it from root down to assign 1's and 0's as appropriate.

Not sure how this can be scripted. not sure how to 'store' the tree and then traverse it... yet

still looking

Yes, you're right. I'm sorry, I should have mentioned it. It's just that it's the first time that I'm realy looking into the LEVS file. As in the c64 version, there are 8 possible forced encounters. For Catacombs lvl 3, I can find in the LEVS file: 01 00 03 09 04 0D 07 11 08 05 10 0D 12 0E 15 00 3C ...

I've been checking the code in the LEVS file for the special events. Each level can have up to 8 special events. In the LEVS file there are 16 bytes available for coordinates of these special events for each level -- 2 bytes per coordinate (x,y), followed by a specific event code. I've been looking ...

Every byte in the citymap uses bits 3-7 for anything special and bits 0-2 to specify the house type. So, e.g. for Mangars tower the special bits are 0xA1>>3=20 and the house type is 0xA1 & 0x07 = 1 (white with thatched roof). Now, I just changed the lower three bits to 4, making the code for &q...

Works like a charm now, thanks

Hi Desmet Irkm

I was able to expand the citymap file and modify it, but was unable to compress it again.
I'm getting: ValueError: non-hexadecimal number found in fromhex() arg at position 60

also, in you example of the citymap, you used 94 and A4 for the 2 towers.
Shouldn't that be 91 and A1?

I can't seem to attach files to a pm.
maybe I can upload it in Github? or you pm me a mailaddress where I can send it.

I've been checking the bard.exe file a bit closer. It starts with a lot of offsets into itself: 4D 5A 30 01 65 01 80 04 22 01 F8 05 FF FF 28 31 00 04 00 00 DC 10 66 03 1E 00 00 00 01 00 8F 03 00 00 82 03 00 00 75 03 00 00 6D 03 00 00 54 03 00 00 3B 03 00 00 22 03 00 00 00 03 00 00 ED 02 00 00 E5 02 ...

btw Desmet Irkm (where did Daem go?)

I was browsing Github and I noticed in the msdos file list that you are still looking to decompress bard.exe?
I used pklite112.exe for that. Original bard.exe is 83Kb, decompressed it's about 215Kb

Not sure if you still needed that.

btw Tomas,

you wrote that you use static Huffman coding?
That means you already have a Huffman tree?