Random dungeon help.

Hello

Since i have my player movement and some other things down i want to make a random dungeon.

I used the random dungeon object.
The grid the player moves on is 32x32.

So i made a 32x32 wall, floortile and door.

So far so good. But now it gets tricky.
1. The generated dungeon is never on the top left corner of the screen. It's always one 'gridstep' (32x32) down and right. I tried everything, i can't move the grid somewhere else.

2. The size of the dungeon i don't get it. When i make 8x8 shouldn't there be 8 walls? It's 9! I don't get it.

3. When i generate a very large dungeon the programm stops for ages and windows says that it's "not responding". What should i do?

I learned it all from Nivrams "Random Dungeon Generation Example" (forum says i'm not allowed to post link). But that doesnt help me any further, due to lack of documentation.
Then i tried to learn from "Dungeon Dash" (on nivrams page aswell). But there are so many variables, that i can't understand that at all. Are there any other Random Dungeon generation tutorials?

Regards

Okay this is getting dumb. Problem after problem.

The application window is currently 640x480. The Frame is bigger. Camera is always centered around player. The dungeon generated outside of the initial viewfield is sometimes shown, sometimes not. But it's there, i tried to walk with the player through the white area and it works, the obstacles (walls) are there. But not displayed....

We'll have better luck understanding your problem if you upload an example file so we can check out your code :)

I recreated it and left some stuff (movement etc) out for better overview of the event editor.

Here you go:

No one knows the answers? :/

Give us a few.

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I've never used the Dungeon object before, but I looked at the properties you had set for the dungeon object yesterday and wasn't able to figure anything out (everything seemed okay).

After looking at it again and actually checking the event editor I realized why the generated dungeon is always offset down/right one square however. In your events you set the position of every room/wall block to +32/+32 after it's created. Get rid of that if you want the dungeon to be generated in the upper left corner.

Edit: Okay, I figured the rest of it out.

As for question #2, when you click on the properties of the dungeon object, go to the settings tab and click where it says 'Size'. If you read what it says at the bottom it explains that the actual size of the dungeon will be twice as large as the number you enter plus 1. Since you have the grid size set to 15x15, the actual grid size will be 31x31. Don't ask me why it's like that, but that's apparently how it works.

Your problem for question number 3 is because you need to increase the number of objects allowed at runtime. Click on the frame in the workspace toolbar > runtime options > and change the number of objects at runtime to some large number. It should work after that.

Here's the corrected mfa. Hope that helps.

Wow, awesome!

Some beginner errors i did there....

At question 2: Yes, this is kind of weird. Makes it impossible to get an even number. But i can always set for example screenY = 30*32+32 i guess.

Thank you so much!

Edit: Have no option to add "solved" to the topic title.

Sorry, saw your PM too late I suppose. Yes, the dimensions of the dungeons object might seem a bit odd. The Size*2+1 part is how the library that I used for the dungeon generation works. It basically makes sense, because dungeons HAVE to have an odd (not even) size. With this method, it's impossible to enter an even number that would fail.

Don't worry. Your extension is simply amazing.

Just found out about the find random position function. Super.

Regards

Glad to hear you like it :) It's an extension that I wrote in a hurry but it seems to work well. Never got around adding some features I wanted though.

It depends on the game. For a story heavy rpg game you would of course need a certain themed/stlyed dungeon.
For some other games it is important, that you have a different dungeon every time you play.

The random Dungeon Example I have a person can also generate random stairs, enemies, chests, and etc.

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Glad to hear you like it :) It's an extension that I wrote in a hurry but it seems to work well. Never got around adding some features I wanted though.

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It's one of my favorite extensions. Thank you so much for writing it!
I hope you get around to add some functions to it if you ever feel like it ;)