Red "2" on items on the ground

[greycat]

What does the red "2" mean on items that I find on the ground? At first I thought it was a quantity indicator, as in "this is really 2 gems", but upon walking over to the item and picking it up, it was just 1 gem. I get the "2" on items dropped by monsters, and occasionally on items generated on the level, but not on items that I drop, even if they're still unidentified... so apparently it doesn't mean "unidentified" either.

Edit: oh, there are "3"s too!



As it turns out, this was a stack of TWO items (a gem and a scroll). Maybe this is intended to be a "number of items in the pile" indicator, and it has an off-by-one bug?

[darkgod]

Ther eprobably was gold inside which got autopickedup

[escargot]

Yeh, I noticed too and it was actually gold, if you check the log you'll see the autopicking.
I like the method to show a stack, but I also loved from T2 how after killing a boss or a dragon you'd get tons of items dropped in a 2 tiles radius. Looked magnificent

[Shoob]

That probably wouldnt be that hard to incorporate in t4, it may need the check free grid modified, but only slightly.

[yufra]

If you want to give this a try, open tome/class/Actor.lua and scroll down to the "_M:die" function. Find this line (around line 750 in my copy)...

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						game.level.map:addObject(self.x, self.y, o)

... and replace it with these lines:

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						local drop_x, drop_y = util.findFreeGrid(self.x, self.y, 5, false, {[engine.Map.OBJECT]=true})
						game.level.map:addObject(drop_x, drop_y, o)

[Shoob]

the main problem is that some objects may not be placed with that code, especially with bosses. which is why it would need to be tweaked some.

[yufra]

Shoob, the resolvers.drops that bosses use just adds the items to the inventory so the above code will correctly drop those items as well (haven't tested it, but the code definitely suggests that).

[darkgod]

Not if there are too many objects around

[yufra]

Mmm, good point.

How about:

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                  local drop_x, drop_y = util.findFreeGrid(self.x, self.y, 5, false, {[engine.Map.OBJECT]=true})
                  drop_x = drop_x or self.x
                  drop_y = drop_y or self.y
                  game.level.map:addObject(drop_x, drop_y, o)