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How does the JtRH engine determine what floor tile will show up when you break a breakable wall? After lots of testing, I've come to no definitive conclusion.

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If I recall correctly, the game checks first the free tiles surrounding the crumby wall(s), and uses the most common floor type.

In the case of a draw, there's a certain order in which some floor types rank higher than others (regular floor loses to everything).

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Does that mean that we can create a quantum floor? I've tried a bit, but it seems that the floor is fixed for any starting orientation.

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Aye, when I was testing things, the radius of the second floor texture under the breakable walls kept changing with each different test. Maybe this will be fixed in TCB.

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You could just look at the source code...

There's a precalculated heuristic that's used to determine what appears under colored doors and breakable walls. I think it is based on the heuristic determined from nearby areas, and also the distance from a user-defined area.

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You can lay floor tiles under doors and breakable walls. It's why it occurs. So put the wanted floor under walls&doors and job's done!

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Jeff_Ray... wrote:
You can lay floor tiles under doors and breakable walls. It's why it occurs. So put the wanted floor under walls&doors and job's done!

That doesn't work, BTW.

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Jason wrote:

Jeff_Ray... wrote:
You can lay floor tiles under doors and breakable walls. It's why it occurs. So put the wanted floor under walls&doors and job's done!

That doesn't work, BTW.

However, this method works for me.

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Timo006 wrote:

Jason wrote:

Jeff_Ray... wrote:
You can lay floor tiles under doors and breakable walls. It's why it occurs. So put the wanted floor under walls&doors and job's done!

That doesn't work, BTW.

However, this method works for me.

Well...if I understand my own code correctly , doing this in the room editor will make it look as if this works, but this information doesn't actually get saved. When you play the room later, it will calculate what's under the walls and doors afresh using the heuristic mentioned above. This could be changed, but I'm not planning to add it because it would either slow down room editing operations or bloat the size of .dat and .hold files.

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