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Originally posted by Bob the Mediocre:
**That's for rock chutes. Enemy pipes are the things (in O &E;, probably other levels too) that make enemies, and if you kill them they make more.
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Originally posted by um...me:
**Bob, please, what do you knw about 'Enemy Pipes
-sorry, I don't know a lot, but in 'Eastern Reaches', and found this:

info(0) - Button ID
info(1) - Second Button ID
info(2) - Was 0.
info(3) - 1 for 'Exploding Rocks'.
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Well, I should have said this:

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Bob, please, what do you knw about 'Enemy Pipes' -sorry, I don't know a lot.
BTW, I looked in 'Eastern Reaches', for rock chutes and found this:

info(0) - Button ID
info(1) - Second Button ID
info(2) - Was 0.
info(3) - 1 for 'Exploding Rocks'.

Is this right for Enemy Pipes?

info(0) - Sprite ID for thing that comes out
info(1) - Timing...In ticks?
info(2) - Dunno.
info(3) - Dunno.

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(STATUS) - Stopped working on Mysterious Shadows, working more on creating more levels for the rest of my World.
(FIX) - Level in 'Retreating' should no longer open up to 'Burning Caves'
(STATUS) - Not much done lately. Will do more soon.

(This message has been edited by MDWGMalc (edited 07-22-2001).)

(This message has been edited by MDWGMalc (edited 07-22-2001).)

ROCK CHUTE
(0) ID of switch
(1) ID of another switch
(3) Type of rock: 0=Normal 1=Explosive

ENEMY PIPE
(0) ID of enemy
(1) Minimum Ticks between launch

For the enemy pipe, (1) is only the minimum amount of ticks. A monster will not respond if it is still alive. Once this monster dies, it responds unless the minimum ticks have not elapsed. However, there are several monsters which FW does not understand to be alive. These monsters will respond immediately after the tick time elapses. I have not tested every monster but I know that these do that:

Insect Swarm
Flying Gremlin
Salamandrake
Spider

This does not seem like a bad problem except that if you have a large level and set even one enemy pipe to respond one of these monsters with a low tick number....that section will be swamped with that enemy. Insect swarms are fine but very annoying since they hunt you down but if you leave one of the other three alone in a room for the duration of a big level, you will run out of space in the sprite pool. This error will pop up on the screen every time a new monster is created and then destroyed for lack of memory. Increasing FW memory does not increase the sprite pool. If you want to use one of those enemies in an enemy pipe, consider the info (1) to be the actual ticks between launch, not the minimum.

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Dr. Tall says: Taller is Better

Oh and if you want to make a professional read me file, use what Ambrosia uses. It's called DOCMaker. The address (a direct download link) is (url="http://"http://home.HiWAAY.net/~greenmtn/DOCMaker484.hqx")http://home.HiWAAY.n...DOCMaker484.hqx(/url)

It's "shareware" but nothing new is granted upon registration...something I call freeware. It takes a little getting used to but it looks better in the end.

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Dr. Tall says: Taller is Better

Thanks a lot, Dr Tall. I tried making Enemy Pipes drop Death Powerups, but these never disappear, and would have probably caused a 'Sprite Overload'. I still haven't used DOCMaker. I shall send youi a read-me file, if you want, when I have used it.

Not much been done on the World lately. Been concentraiting hard on the read me. (appologies for my rubbish speling.)

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(STATUS) - Read me file 'bout 30% complete.
(STATUS) - I'm the only person posting here. :frown:
(STATUS) - Acccepted a new beta tester; a newbie, aswell, this is mainly because the World is expanding, fast. Overrider720, if you want to Beta test, just ask.

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Why didn't you post this topic on the Ferazel's Wand Hacking web board?

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"Ice, ice, baby! It looks cold in that cavern! I'd freeze my wings off if I were there. Those snow-covered boulders look scrumptious."- Hector D. Byrd

To Malcolm:

I'll be gone beginning this Thursday until August 2nd, and most of that time before I leave will be preparation for going, so I won't get much time to play your levels, much less Ferazel's Wand in general.

If you plan to release before then, good luck, and sorry I didn't get to see it all the way through.

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Greetings - I am your friendly neighborhood moderator. Over the coming years I shall force-feed you my biased one-sided liberal tripe that I find truthful based upon my own faulty and fragmented logic; excessive smileys and bizarre TexT! formatting also help clarify my inane points. Welcome to the boards!

To spamguy:

It is OK if you go away (where are you going?) as I have previously stated, I have a new Beta Tester, and I hope he will be able to do as good a job as you. I will not release publicly soon. When you come back, it will probably still be in Beta.

To Bob:

Really, where are you from? All my other Beta testers are 6-8 hourd behind me, this makes it hard to talk to them instantly... :frown:

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Originally posted by MDWGMalc:
**To Bob:

Really, where are you from? All my other Beta testers are 6-8 hourd behind me, this makes it hard to talk to them instantly... :frown:**

New York. I'm surprised that we can talk instantly, but the board(same time zone as me) says you posted that message at 2:44 AM, so we might not be able to sometimes.

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"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west keeping the world in chains. If (our nation) took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Originally posted by Ice:
Why didn't you post this topic on the Ferazel's Wand Hacking web board?

Well, I have now. Click (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum54/HTML/000240.html#")here(/url)

To Malcolm:

I am going to Canada for vacation: Montreal followed by Prince Edward Island for a good bit of time. If it were Vancouver I'd stop by and say hi to MonsterLady... <jk>

If I return and it's still in development, I'll try to catch up with testing.

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Greetings - I am your friendly neighborhood moderator. Over the coming years I shall force-feed you my biased one-sided liberal tripe that I find truthful based upon my own faulty and fragmented logic; excessive smileys and bizarre TexT! formatting also help clarify my inane points. Welcome to the boards!

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Originally posted by spamguy:
**Prince Edward Island for a good bit of time. If it were Vancouver I'd stop by and say hi to MonsterLady...;) <jk>
**

Wrong ocean. (I know you knew that) Besides, I don't live in Vancouver, I just go there sometimes for the day. I'll be in California this weekend anyway.

Have a good vacation, eh? (Just trying to get you Canadianized, or at least what the common perception of being Canadian is!) <jk>

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It is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. (I wish I could remember this before posting!)

NOTE: The (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum54/HTML/000240.html#")'Malcolm's World Progress Log'(/url) is where I will post new stuff from now on. I will now e-mail all Beta Testers 'Malcolm's World' 0.0.5.

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Fixed in 0.0.5:

• Nodes work better. (Actually, now they work.{Going on from 'Burning Caves', that is.})
• Boss level been worked on...a bit.
• Level 1 has fixed wall...again!
• Level 1 has an extra bit at the beginning. This makes it easier to kill the Flying Gremlin. (You don't have to cling to the wall to the right and be hit by the Axe Goblin.)
• Read me file now made with DOCMaker.
  NOTE: Read me only about 50% complete.

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Beta Testers:

Bob the Mediocre,
Ice,
Zelda,
spamguy.

Reserves:

Overrider720,
(Name kept secret; not yet on boards.
Is the one filling in for spamguy)

(This message has been edited by MDWGMalc (edited 08-02-2001).)