Z-levels

baldamundo · 2014-10-28T19:43:55.000Z

Uhh…not sure if this is even the right forum section for this thread, but…

Perusing these forums and the Github, I’ve been hearing a lot about z-levels - there’s an “experimental z-levels buildings” mod, and people always seem to be saying “…when we finally get proper z-level support!” and “if only we had proper z-levels!” and so on and so on.

Now, I don’t know the first thing about the code, but, uhh, having played the game obviously there are z-levels, and on the face of it they seem to work fine - it even seems like monsters will pursue you from one z-level to the next if you flee down the stairs.

So I wondered if somebody who knows what’s what could expand on what exactly the issues are currently and what are the planned/hoped for extra z-level functionality would consist of?

Thanks!

TheFlame52 · 2014-10-28T19:55:06.000Z

The huge one is making the game run on every z-level at once, instead of just the one you are in. Monsters come up/down the stairs because of some hacky code that will probably be replaced eventually.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-10-28T22:02:38.000Z

TheFlame52:

The huge one is making the game run on every z-level at once, instead of just the one you are in. Monsters come up/down the stairs because of some hacky code that will probably be replaced eventually.

KA101 · 2014-10-28T22:40:07.000Z

GitHub issue tracker set to “bounty issues”.

There you go. Long story short: the current implementation becomes totally unbelievable as soon as you move to a second story aboveground.

kevin.granade · 2014-10-29T02:11:23.000Z

A more feature-centric explanation is it would allow climbing around on top of roofs, going though upper storey windows, sniping zombies from rooftops, running across rooftops, and the like.

Arek_PL · 2014-10-31T11:14:47.000Z

Kevin Granade:

sniping zombies from rooftops, running across rooftops,

this will be nice for looting in 16 size city

i2amroy · 2014-11-01T03:20:51.000Z

On that note it would also allow us to increase zombie population in cities fairly drastically since each level of a building could have zombies in it instead of just the ground floor.

John_Candlebury · 2014-11-01T03:29:13.000Z

It’s raining men zombies! Hallelujah, it’s raining zombies?