Editng

- In terms of files, it breaks down into:

a) The save.dat/.bak file used for saved games in DM/CSB, and the dungeon.dat file in the data folder used by the game for the starting dungeon. They can be from the Atari, PC or Amiga versions. This editing is wide ranging so you can create complex new dungeon layouts for DM. Note DMute doesn't support CSB's hcsb.dat file (The Prison levels), or any file altered from the originals (DMedited or CSB4win expanded games). DMEdit, reading dynamically, can read all these files. Textmute cannot alter texts from CSB games at all. DM2 saves and dungeon files cannot be edited at the moment.

b) The graphics.dat file that DM uses to store the graphics, music and names in. This is possible through Zyx's programme Graphreader, which is under released on v0.11 right now, and this editing capablity is promising to improve all the time. At the moment the names of each can be edited, graphics and sounds/music from DM, CSB and DM2 (varied formats) can be ripped, but putting graphics in again isn't available yet. Hints for ripping the music from DM 2 are also given in this discussion topic here from the DME, but not how to imput the music.

c) All others CANNOT be edited at the moment, these include the Fires file that contains monster and item stats, and the main animation ones like Swoosh, Title and End (for PC). Some people might know more about these files, but they haven't shared the knowledge. There is an alternative Fires file available, but this was simply someone altering the raw hex and observing that action names had changed in a random way, without crashing the DM game : )

a)Dungeon levels:
You cannot change the size or number of the DM/CSB levels in DMute, only DMEdit. Bothcan alter all tiles, to any type.
There are other factors for dungeon levels. There are only a certain number of door types, monster types, wall graphics, floor graphics, and door graphics assigned to each level. You cannot change these numbers with DMute, but you can change which monster types and wall graphics are used on each level. Note that only type/graphic numbers are limited, not object numbers themselves...there is nothing to stop you moving everything onto one level if you wished!. The actual limits in the DM engine/dungeon .dat files are 1024 items of each type, and up to 15 types on each level of other items like monsters, and I am not sure about the limits to the physical dungeon depth wise, but each level can be 32x32. To get these though, you need to use DMEdit.

b)Monsters:
You cannot change thier graphics yet, but this will be the next step using Graphreader. Abilities remain unalterable. You automatically change their colours (sometimes in ways you don't want to) due to the way DM handles the palette for each level. Though you cannot add more groups in DMute, the numbers in these groups, health and types can be changed. You cannot alter the natural items a creature drops, but you can add or remove other dropped items from a monster group, within the upper number limits for the dungeon. You will need to hex edit with DMute to obtain some monster types in CSB, and in general to get some group numbers (like four ghosts, or two small scorpions). You can also add two monster types not usually encountered, that of Lord Librasulus (as Chaos,but immune to fusing) and the Grey Lord (cannot move or attack).

c) Weapons, potions, scrolls, clothes, chests, other items:
Each one of these is a seperate type, which you cannot interchange. Otherwise, you can alter anything in that type to anything else, you can rechange weapons (including torches), increase potion strengths, etc, and place any of these types into chests (as long as you remain within the upper number limits). Their properties are hard coded though. There are some items that were never included in the original DM dungeons, that made it into CSB or other versions of DM. These are all still present in the engine, and can be added to dungeons using both editors. There are also flags on some items for cursing, poisoning and breaking them (last two do not appear to have functions). These can be activated using both editors too.

d) Tile types:
Doors and teleporters are object types aswell as tiles, and so have limits on their numbers. Pits, walls, floors and stairs are only tile types, and so have no number limits. You can alter the properties of the tile type of any square, though not the graphics (yet).

e) Texts:
You cannot alter the numbers, or lengths (maybe in future DMEdit versions). Using Textmute you can alter the words character for character in DM (not CSB). Floor and wall texts are the same thing, and scrolls get their text from this source too...so you can interchange these without difficulty.
Champion mirrors require silent floor pads infront of them that contain the champion information. These texts have garbage text at the end that make them useless as normal texts, but is used to generate the stats. These can also be edited in Textmute for DM, to alter the characters starting health, stamina and mana (to limits of 0 - 127), name and also a hidden gender note! DMEdit can't handle these yet, while DMute can using hex editing.

f)Character info:
In the dmsave/csbsave.dat file, you can also edit much of a character's attributes through DMute (not DMEdit). You can't add/delete characters. You cannot alter their posion or food/water levels. But all other stats can be altered. There is a portrait editor so you can edit them to your own liking, or swap for any of the three sets of pre-defined (DM, CSB makeover of DM characters, and CSB characters). You can alter their health, stamina and mana from 0 - 999, their other attributes from 0-255 (apart from the hidden luck skill, see rumours). You can alter all the basic four class levels from nothing skills to archmaster (using a slider, not numbers), but cannot alter the hidden internal divisions (see rumour section again). Finally, you can alter the objects in a characters inventory (not add or subtract them nor hex edit) though it is not advisable for the most part as the character's weight isn't altered along with it.

g) Mirrors/wall objects/alcoves/floor pads/monster generators:
Amazingly, all of these are actually the same type, so are interchangable. Much has been learned about these since DMute 1.3 was made, so by hex editing more effects can be created, such as activation by any object, shooters, item shooters and an 'end game' pad. The number of graphics for the wall/floor pads on each leve is set, but for the wall objects, the graphics themselves available can be altered, and for both types each individual object can be given any graphic from this sub-set. DMEdit is static in this way, in that an object type needs to have been included in the code. However, it is based on the most current findings, so this should not be a problem, and it can expand the usual graphics limits, and use any of the graphics available for each level for floor pads too.

h) Miscellaneous:
If an attribute has not been aluded to here, then assume it cannot be altered. For the moment adding new graphics and sounds is in the future of Graphreader.

h) Miscellaneous:
If an attribute has not been aluded to here, then assume it cannot be altered. For the moment adding new graphics and sounds is in the future of Graphreader.