Rabscuttle
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On the subject of fading, when Beethro is invisible and out of smell range, he looks like a decoy and fades in and out and it is hard for me to spot him, especially on certain floor tiles.

If an antifade option is considered, I'd suggest adding this to it.

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In 5.2.0.508 most of these options appear to be working, however increasing the style slider above the default causes DROD to post tens of thousands of lines of

Assertion error in line 2779 of BitmapManager.cpp: "this->TileImageTypes[wTileImageNo] != TIT_Unspecified"

into drod.err

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It looks like the different grid styles are meant to have their own tile graphics, but they don't. Not sure if it's something I can solve since it needs a change in the data files.

(I am vaugely aware that DROD is pretty open to replacing graphics by dropping files in the right place so a tempory fix might be possible?)

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If new graphics are needed then its probably best suited to a theoretical 6.0 rather than 5.2. Maybe the style slider should be swapped for a show grid lines toggle box for 5.2.

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kieranmillar wrote:
If new graphics are needed then its probably best suited to a theoretical 6.0 rather than 5.2. Maybe the style slider should be swapped for a show grid lines toggle box for 5.2.

Probably a good call. The original PR doesn't give any indication of what the grid styles should be.

Relatedly, I've made a minor graphics mod and attached it to this post to supply graphics for the other styles. Put the two files in the Bitmaps directory of your DROD data directory, and add the line General=PuzzleGridTiles to your drod.ini file (after the General=GeneralTiles line).

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