Rocks'n'Diamonds

My mistake in my previous post: I checked the palette and, according to how it is structured, yamyams were introduced in EM - non-directional - and directional yamyams were introduced in EMC. Now, regardless of whether this is true, historically speaking, I just don't think that distinction is of mu...

I am posting this just to bring my later post ahead of an older post, which I believe is completed, but I don't have any way to mark it as such, apart from adding reply to say 'all done'. Apologies for the confusion between this post and the older bug post "Paste Text from Clipboard feature&quo...

It was more a case of my taking the fact you replied to indicate that at least one other person is interested, and explain my proposal again, and develop it further. And try to get support for my idea of treating space characters as instructions to leave the existing element as is, rather than enter...

Thanks, I was expecting backticked numbers but didn't realize I needed to hit the quote button to get them; thought I could just copy from the image and it would somehow transform the icons back to numbers :oops: I guess the rock is unsnappable just because it is an EM rock? Ironically there is noth...

Well, as shown by this post, the top-down grouping hasn't been implemented 100% correctly, and I think it would be a lot of (low-profit?) work to make it so, and even then the choices made would be arguable. e.g. why differentiate between EM and EMC? They are both handled by the EM engine, at least ...

Looks good. Would you share the "natural intelligence" algorithm? I think that whatever visual parser is used, be it the "natural intelligence" algorithm or the Krissz approach, it would have a much easier time parsing levels from Supaplex, where there are not (I think) different...

This new feature is working pretty well and provides a new way of generating initial content for new levels. Since 4.1.1.2 came out I have done a small amount of testing and noticed a couple of things that if fixed or enhanced could really make this feature mature. They are: 1. "added expanding...

Thanks ncrecc, you bet me to the 'Submit' button :) I had realized that 'true diagonal' movement is already an optional feature in the Boulder Dash engine, and wrote out this post, which I will only revise lightly in view of your post . I can't tell from your post whether diagonal snapping, as oppos...

Is there any way this bug could be turned into a feature? i.e. give level designers the option to enable 'true diagonal' snapping, and of course movement; while continuing to allow only zigzag diagonal movement; hence 'either or', or perhaps neither, although I cannot think why you would want to for...

Thanks Holger, that is very cool. I've already had fun copying the artsoft.org download page to a level (see attached).

John

7 years after I got an answer to my question in this post :) When I come to do what I need to, to get the level, I am still stumped. I can see that the 'image' of the level is actually built up of elements, but when I copy them and paste into RnD, I get the 'no level sketch found in clipboard' warni...

Thanks! That's a better URL - good to get rid of that /hp - might make people think the levelset is sanctioned by HP or something

I don't play EM games, so when I create a level or play one of my own, I am using the RND engine. This makes available most of the elements (excluding MM/DF and Boulder Dash engine). When playing using the RND engine, Dead Amoeba is under the RND section, not under EM or EMC. Matter of fact the grou...

Is there any chance that his site, and downloadable ZIPS etc, have been archived e.g. on web.archive.org?

ncrecc, you make a lot of nice levels. Have you released any levelsets?

John