Gruntz Level Editor Manual (GLEM)

[GooRoo]

There is an (<-- link!) version of the Gruntz Level Editor Manual, which replacez all of the Boardz and/or Threadz on this Forum. (After spending a couple of dayz trying to update the Forum's Index to replace linkz, I decided the effort was not worth it, and decided to simply force the use of the HTML on-line GLEM.)

[GooRoo]

I have finally gotten around to migrating the Gruntz Level Editor Manual away from this ProBoards Forum, replacing it with pure HTML. No more dual maintenance (in two different scripting languagez!) of the GLEM!

P.S. Everything I have in support of Gruntz is (or will be!) available on the Gruntz Extraz CD-ROM.

[GooRoo]

The description of stairwayz (tilez 270 through 281) has been extensively updated. I discovered its deficienciez when I was working on a small write-up concerning "NotWithoutMyWings"/"NotWithoutOurWingz" and diverted myself (as I frequently do ) from one project to take on another task. (I also wanted to demonstrate that I continue to learn more about the capabilitiezs of HTML in creating documentation. )

[Zu]

I needed to access the Manual without having the link bookmarked (since I was on a different computer), and I spent several minutes trying to find the link to it, to no avail... only to realize that the link is among those links at the very top of the main forum page. Not to mention this thread, which was kinda buried among other threads. I'm going to bump this thread so that it's harder to miss.

[GooRoo]

I made some minor changes in the Index, adding a bit of 'color' to the Appendices. The rest of the Index does not lend itself to the same treatment, as many items are already covered under the Appendices, so would be redundant. Since I could not think of any suitable small images for most of the entries, I left them all as-is.

[Zu]

Nice addition! One note though, the image of the Smart Chaser AI doesn't seem to display.

[GooRoo]

Jun 8, 2015 11:32:00 GMT -8 Zu said:

Nice addition! One note though, the image of the Smart Chaser AI doesn't seem to display.

Interesting! It displays fine on my computer, but not on-line ... because AISmartChaser does not exist on the web host, but AISmartChaserBarehanded does ... so I changed the link.

[GooRoo]

I wanted to see what the Tile Statistics were for a Custom Level, and found the Index deficient!

There was no entry for "Tile Stats" to help navigate to it ... and it is NOT the easiest thing to find! So I added that entry to the Index, and updated the "Plane Menu" with a link to an (created today) image sample.

[GooRoo]

Dedicated Gruntzerz continue to find omissions of information in the GLEM, proving what I said years ago that this manual may never be truly complete. The Kitchen Slime entry now tells more about how to put it into your "Honey, I Shrunk The Gruntz!" custom levelz.

Others, more adventuresome than I, have managed to put logicz from one graphics set into another, making them work. Bjarni (The Blaziken Master) even managed to put an 'under' plane into a "Trouble In The Tropicz" custom level ... and I was unable to duplicate that feat in one of my own efforts.

So I encourage anyone managing such tricks to 'publish' their method, for others to use.

[GooRoo]

While designing my latest Custom Level Quest, I discovered that there was no entry for 'Hazardz' ... so it would be necessary for a new Designer to know the name of the (moving) hazard s/he was looking for. So I created a new member which contains links to the six area hazards that exist. ('Rocky Roadz' and 'Grunticlez' don't have any, except for the always present "Rolling Rockz".)

As a side project caused by my 'Hazardz' project, I updated the 'Static Hazardz' element, as well.

Since it was a new element, the overall Index was also updated.

[GooRoo]

I keep hoping for the ability to replace the current GRUNTZ.REZ file with new(?) Tile images where there are duplicates that I have shown can provide more graphical variety, by simply rotating/flipping other Tilez in the set to replace the duplicated Tilez. But I also have hopes that we will be able to create the 31 Secret Levelz provided for in the original 'Standard' Questz. That led me to determine how a SecretLevelTrigger is coded. (See my result.)

So there is one additional entry in the main GLEM Index.