Randoom 1.4
Royce Lithgo
>Randoom 1.4's new-and-improved monster placement strategies are great,
>but I think it overdoes it... mainly because I almost never see a
>cacodemon around anymore, even when I have the frequency set up to 1.0.
>I think that for some reason, Randoom thinks they're much bigger than it
>really are, so when it goes to see if thy'll fit in a room or something
>it decides they won't, and doesn't place them. (They _do_ appear a lot
>in big, open spaces for me in 1.4, but rarely anywhere else.)
>With Randoom 1.2, when it DIDN'T check to see if a monster would get
>stuck in a wall or something (i.e., random placement), I found cacodemons
>all the time in small narrow corridors, and rarely were they stuck, so
>they _can_ fit there. Will this "bug" be fixed in Randoom 1.5? (Or
>perhaps I should ask first, has anyone else encountered the problem or
>found a workaround for it?)
Yeah, I had the same problem. I set the weights to:
BARON 99.9
SPIDER 50.0
CYBORG 50.0
FLYSKULL 10.0
and on E1L1, there were NO badies anywhere (except for a few skulls).
On E1L2, there was one CYBORG (in the hallway where you first arrive - very
nasty!) and a couple of Barons (and a few skulls), but you'd expect a lot
more with these weights?
Royce.
Madah Christopher Chay
Scott Coleman <gen...@ilces.ag.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Hogan James Patrick) writes:
>
>>Randoom 1.4's new-and-improved monster placement strategies are great,
>>but I think it overdoes it... mainly because I almost never see a
>>cacodemon around anymore, even when I have the frequency set up to 1.0.
>
>
>A more detailed explanation will follow... ;-)
>
>--
>Scott Coleman tm...@uiuc.edu
>President ASRE (American Society of Reverse Engineers)
>Ed Green Fan Club #005
I've used values as high as 9.0 and after a few levels, the game would crash,
consistently. So I replaced the doom.wad file and reduced all the values
to below 1.0. Has anyone had this problem? I was under the impression
that the values had to be 0 < x > 1.0 <--- Is that correct, anybody?
You know what will be cool? If randoom placed the spiderdemon and the
other robot demon (two biggest monsters) first, then placed other objects,
we would see more of those clowns.
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Chris the Doctor of *.* :
Scott Coleman
>I've used values as high as 9.0 and after a few levels, the game would crash,
>consistently. So I replaced the doom.wad file and reduced all the values
>to below 1.0.
I don't know what happened to your WAD, but your crashes had absolutely
nothing to do with the weights being > 1.0.
>I was under the impression
>that the values had to be 0 < x > 1.0 <--- Is that correct, anybody?
Not anymore. Now they can be > 1.0.
>You know what will be cool? If randoom placed the spiderdemon and the
>other robot demon (two biggest monsters) first, then placed other objects,
>we would see more of those clowns.
Snag RanDOOM 1.5. ;-)
John Doggett
: In article <genghis.760655244@ilces>,
Seek Ye randoom v1.5!
I used the batchfile supplied with it, and MAN did it create some mean
levels. e1m1 was *stuffed* with cacodemons. There was no chance of
survival, at my skill level. I was stuck with a puny pistol. Oh, did I
mention the spider demon? He wa there too. And if that wasn't enough,
once I finished the level (with god mode), I found e1m2 even worse!
There were FOUR Cyberdemons! And they *refused* to kill each other. It
was a nightmare, man!
Randoom 1.5, man. Places the big guys first.