[Enigma-devel] Duplicating Levels (was Re: 4 bugs in Enigma)

[Tarim]

Raoul wrote:
> Now, you are right that the crosslinks were a core concept of the new
> levelpack handling.
>
> But I thought, it could be important that every Oxyd levelpackage is
> totally independent of the others.
> To do this, we must use real copies of the levelfiles and can't just
> linkt all to one single copy.

  Ah, Tarim understands the concept now.  Though he isn't sure he entirely 
agrees with the way it is implemented.  Wouldn't it be better to have the 
attribute of "independence" as part of the level package itself, rather 
than try to kludge it on to the individual levels by, essentially 
duplicating files with new IDs?

  Done this way, you could have level packs which you could turn on 
attributes of, "must do all levels", or even, "must do all levels in 
order".  Then, if you're someone like Tarim, you can just turn the 
attribute off and not have to do the level again or if you're someone who 
is into genuine Oxyd compatibility you can set the attributes accordingly.

  (If the enigma.score file was xml then perhaps this would be easier to 
change - you could always encrypt it to stop people il-editing it when they 
shouldn't ;-)

  But don't worry - it's not really that big a deal and Tarim is sure you 
can all find more interesting things to implement.


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