kdrnic

kdrnic's Caves of Qud beginner notes

The guide below I wrote mostly for myself as a "notebook" of info I found, but then slightly expanded it with stuff that may be useful to others.

As of finishing writing, I have 16 hours of CoQ playtime and have a level 20 character, definitelly still a beginner as well, perhaps a slightly seasoned beginner.

My previous roguelike experience included beating DCSS with a minotaur berserker and playing a good amount of POWDER on my celphone.

Justification

The game is a tad opaque. As this Qud denizen explains (I don't agree with his overall opinion):

Finding and fixing a bug in a Lua JSON parser

This one is found in the wild while modding rnlf's Alakajam entry

Jump directly to the bug and its fix

Backstory

First I transformed the world.lua file...

	#include <allegro.h>
	#include <winalleg.h>
	#include <libnet.h>

	#include <ctype.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <strings.h>
	#include <time.h>
	#include <stdint.h>


	CC = wcc
	AS = nasm

	#-0 8086 instructions
	#-1 186 instructions
	#-2 286 instructions
	#-3 386 instructions
	#-4 386 instructions, optimize for 486
	#-5 386 instructions, optimize for Pentium

	#include <sys/nearptr.h>
	#include <sys/farptr.h>
	#include <go32.h>
	#include <pc.h>
	#include <math.h>
	#include <conio.h>

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
	asm(

	Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
	Iron Maiden - Aces High
	Blue Oyster Cult - Me 262
	Byafra - Sonho de Icaro
	Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
	Sabaton - Aces in Exile
	Sabaton - No Bullets Fly
	Sabaton - Night Wiches
	Sabaton - The Red Baron
	Sabaton - Metal Machine

	#include <math.h>
	#include <stdio.h>

	#include <allegro.h>

	#define ONE_DEG (M_PI / 180.0)

	typedef struct surfdata
	{
	double

	/*
	allocate a child and move down

	parent -> null
	^

	to

	parent -> new child
	^

	EXPANDED FORMS OF QUATERNION PRODUCTS
	HAMILTON'S

	with
	s1=w
	s2=w'
	v1=[x,y,z]
	v2=[x',y',z']

	qp = [s1,v1][s2,v2] = [s1s2 - v1.v2, s1v2 + s2v1 + v1 x v2]

	#ifndef ARR_H
	#define ARR_H

	#include <assert.h>

	//Usage: arr_t(type) a arr_cleanup;
	#define arr_cleanup __attribute__ ((__cleanup__(arr_cleanup_func)))

	#define arr_t(t) \
	struct \