Room settings menu

[coarse grail]

In the editor you would be able to bring the dungeon map up and see all of the rooms like in game.

However each room can be selected and settings in it could be altered, some ideas are:

• light level
• light color
• light effects, like flickering etc
• music / volume
• visible on map? (For super secret rooms)
• damage/heal over time
• environmental conditions like fog, rain, snow

[zenith saddle]

not possible

[coarse grail]

Could these ideas be implemented some other way?

Curious to why this wouldn’t be possible

[zenith saddle]

some of them yep!

light the damage heal over time could be some sort of fog tile!

[zenith saddle]

the reason why things cannot be changed about rooms is that rooms arent actually a thing
the problem is that rooms constantly merge with others by placing tiles!
that would create merge conflicts when rooms have different properties

[lusty nebula]

When I first saw the magma tiles in the the lava theme, I assumed they'd be damaging

[coarse grail]

Yeah I can see that becoming messy, but it could be worked around by maybe having a prompt altering and to select which data it should use.

Another method to implement this could be a new layer to add a region with the effect being configurable

[covert granite]

also there might be ways to help alleviate the incompatibilities with different property rooms merging, like idk making rooms unable to lose properties by merging and only gaining additional ones

[coarse grail]

i guess the best way to do this that would solve a lot of these issues would be to add an item that can be added to the room which has all of these options available in it. Then if a room merge happens, there will be a prompt saying that only one environment controller can be used at a time, and then disable them both until the maker resolves the issue.

[zenith saddle]

that used to be like that, however i dont want to any purely-logical objects anymore

[lusty nebula]

Invisible torch?

[zenith saddle]

ooooo

haha

[covert granite]

i have a question: are there specific things that would make you consider something to be 'purely' logical? like, for example, would something like a magic well that pours out endless fog when turned on that hides the map be something purely logical?

or do you mean just stuff that is invisible+intangible and just alters the room

(nvm i just seen your post about that in a different feature request lol)

[shadow crest]

This could also be accomplished by adding a specific block that could be made intangible to a room that allows toggling these settings that autodeletes on room merges.

To avoid conflicts.

[zenith saddle]

this would work yes

[zenith saddle]

this is what i dont allow in QM anymore correct

[clever geyser]

why ?

[inland rivet]

@clever geyser The dev already expressed his reasons here.

[clever geyser]

Shapes only works only in the room where it was activated, right ?

[inland rivet]

Shapes are a separate thing you can edit unlike a room you can edit, as the dev said, he doesn't want room merging conflicts, you can see why we have room lighting being dependent on illuminated wall torches or floor torches.

[tulip barn]

Reminds me of that Fog Machine that the Party Girl sells in Terraria. That's how you get fog that doesn't naturally spawn, like in a graveyard.

Then you have to paint the Fog Machine with echo paint to make it completely invisible so that it looks natural.

This discussion reminds me of that. Can't just put down fog graphics wherever you want. It has to feel valid in-game, and not god-like.