Thanks, that did help. Now the loader works for .LVL files that contain multiple levels, and loads in the title, hint, author, and difficulty for each as well as the object map. That said... there does seem to be a bug with my loader implementation: Levels past the first aren't loading properly, and the problem gets progressively worse the further into the file you progress. I suspect an "off-by-N" error somewhere as the cause - i.e. the level contains more data than I expected.
--- In [email protected], "verysecret_squirrel" <secret.squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> If you just need to know what the assignments in the character (byte)
> map are for the different colour tunnels, they are:Red - 40, green - 42,
> blue - 44, cyan - 46, yellow - 48, magenta - 4A, white - 4C, black/grey
> - 4E. The next byte up (the ones missing from the sequence) also maps to
> each respective colour; ie 41 is red, 43 - green, up to 4F - black/grey.
> I'm guessing that originally Jim had intended that there be separate
> entry and exit tunnels. (I'm glad he ended up making them as they are -
> they're much more interesting).
> Hope that helps.
> Secret Squïrrel
>
> --- In [email protected], "wrldwzrd89" <worldwizard@> wrote:
> >
> > Progress update on the backwards-compatibility of older .LVL files: A
> very simple and very incomplete loader has been written. All it does
> right now is load in the object "bit map" for the first level in the
> file, except it doesn't understand tunnels yet - I haven't quite figured
> out how those are stored in the "bit map" of objects. I tested my simple
> loader against the Boot Camp level - the first level in the
> LaserTank.lvl file... and lo and behold, it works! (Except for the
> tunnels)
> >
>