This topic personally supplements the Level definitions of File
Formats - Dungeon File (DUNGEON.DAT) by Christophe Fontanel to supply DM2
specific information.
So, majority parts are brought from the File Formats section (without any
permission).
Next table shows Level definitions in bit fielded representation (assumes Little
Endian platform).
Each column represents a bit value.
Each row line represents a word value (2 bytes).
DM2 specific parts will be highlighted.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 |
Offset |
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| 2 | *1 | *2 | - | *3 | *4 | *5 | - | *6 | *7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 | ? | ? | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Offset X | Offset Y | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Level # | ? | Width - 1 | Height - 1 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | # of Wall Ornates | ? | # of Floor Ornates | ? | ||||||||||||
| 12 | # of Shared Ornates | # of Creature types | ? | Depth | ||||||||||||
| 14 | ? | Scene # | Door type 0 | Door type 1 | ||||||||||||
*1 It requires to have upper pitfall.
*2 It requires to have lower pitfall.
*3 It requires to have up-staircase.
*4 It requires to have down-staircase.
*5 It requires to have blue teleport haze.
*6 It requires to have door type 0.
*7 It requires to have door type 1.
From *1 to *5 are just self-assessment parameters for DM2 game system. Just recommended, not essential.
There are 6 known scenes.
| No | Easy description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Void |
| 1 | Surface of the earth |
| 2 | Dungeon |
| 3 | Stone corridor |
| 4 | Rooftop (of Skullkeep) |
| 5 | Surface of the earth (Graveyard) |
Next table shows how level # used.
| No | Easy description |
|---|---|
| 0 | - |
| 1 | Skullkeep: 6F (Rooftop) |
| 2 | Skullkeep: 5F |
| 3 | Skullkeep: 4F |
| 4 | Skullkeep: 3F |
| 5 | Skullkeep: 2F |
| 6 | Skullkeep: 1F; Ground-level |
| 7 | Skullkeep: B1 |
| 8 | Skullkeep: B2 |
| 9 | - |
| 10 | Void |
| 11 | Void lower (Only for PC-98) |
| 12 | - |
| 13 | - |
| 14 | - |
| 15 | - |
Look at the screen shot.
The suffix part, highlighted by white color, contains some descrption.
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Available creature types | 20 05 16 |
| Available wall ornate image types | 76 3F 40 0F 1A 60 |
| Available floor ornate image types | 37 0C |
| Available door ornate image types | 09 |