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Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Fri 03.10.2008, 01:30
by serina
You can edit your client, so all permanent rocks show up in brown instead of regular wall colour. I wouldn't call this cheating, because inn regular Angband, you have all the time in the world to browse and look at rocks. Here, you don't.

You need to edit the file called Mangband\lib\user\font-win.prf

At the bottom of this file looks like this (in windows notepad):

# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)

F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:1/8
F:61:1/8
F:62:1/8
F:63:1/8

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Change it to look like this:

# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)

F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:7/8
F:61:7/8
F:62:7/8
F:63:7/8

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ZAL

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Fri 03.10.2008, 11:52
by PowerWyrm
In regular Angband, you can change any pref setting, so why not the color of permawalls? That's not cheating, it's just customizing your gameplay.
Of course, changing the symbol/color of secret doors and traps WOULD be cheating, as it would be exploiting a known bug...

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Tue 28.04.2009, 22:39
by schroeder
*bump*

Sorry for bumping this, i know its like never done. But I thought that, with the new release deleting some user's old lib files (mine) it might be nice if it was easier to remember how to change the color back to brown.

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Mon 18.05.2009, 00:21
by eidolon
Thanks for bumping this. Came quite in handy for clearing this out last night:

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My friend and I killed Shelob, Ulfang, Ren the Unclean, Scatha, the Mouth of Sauron, Akhorahil the Blind, and Uvatha the Horseman in there, along with all the other OOD stuff. Got about a half dozen nice artifacts plus several inventories-full of excellent items.

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Mon 18.05.2009, 06:44
by schroeder
perhaps we could have permanent rock being brown as an option in one of the future releases? It would be a rather nice feature. And we'd never lose this thread again!

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Mon 18.05.2009, 10:19
by Ace
Imho those prefs should be hardcoded into the game to make it harder to "customize" colors. If "different" color for rocks is available to everyone by everyone then sobe it :)

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Tue 14.07.2009, 21:17
by Generic
After screwing around, I found how you get brown permawalls in Linux (which uses only SDL mode).
Open /var/games/mangband/user/font-sdl.prf. Go down to the bottom, which should say
# permanent wall
F:60:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:61:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:62:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:63:0x01:0x02

Do not change the second hex code. That changes the character it uses, and that just looks... awkward. You want the first hex code. Change each '0x01' to '0x0F', save it, and fart diamonds. Whatever.

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Mon 27.07.2009, 07:42
by PowerWyrm
Sorry guys, but this will fix the issue once and for all...

http://trac.rephial.org/ticket/920

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Mon 27.07.2009, 17:39
by schroeder
thats an angband ticket though...mang devs, can we have the same ticket for mangband? Would be great IMO.

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Thu 21.11.2013, 02:31
by Avenger
Here's my copy:
### Terrain features ###


# Floors (white / centered dot)

# F:1:1/31

# Invis traps (white / centered dot)

# F:2:1/31


# Magma (slate / solid block)

F:50:4/8
F:52:4/8


# Quartz (light slate / solid block)

F:51:10/8
F:53:10/8


# Secret door (white / solid block)

F:48:1/8

# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)

F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:7/8
F:61:7/8
F:62:7/8
F:63:7/8
This causes magma to show up red and quartz as purple, in addition to the permarock color change. Useful for quick digging without switching to pick - or with ;)

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!

Posted: Thu 21.11.2013, 12:36
by PowerWyrm
Avenger wrote:This causes magma to show up red and quartz as purple, in addition to the permarock color change. Useful for quick digging without switching to pick - or with ;)
Indeed, these must have been some *really* great mushrooms!