02-25-2004, 06:24 AM
HunkyDory:
>Is the number 666 in the Hiseed AND or ORed somewhere in the process.
Ehhh, it is SET to that value on initialization. Then it is updated according to the algorithm for the prng I have posted above. From random number generation points of view, all numbers are treated as positive unsigned ones.
>Just a tech question what bit signifies plus or minus on the Intel archictecture?
>The most significant bit of the most signficant byte?
Most significant.
>How does the game know to make a Normal, Nightmare or Hell game when using the seed thing?
>Or is that not part of this process?
That has nothing to do with it. The seed thing is just about geting a random(ish) value(s) into a few places that will then be used for random number generation. There is no other inherant information in the seed values, they have no relation to difficulty or anything such.
For exmaple, selling minor potions instead of major potion has nothing to do with the seeds, since it is not really a random thing (it is part of the few items the vendors always sells and would be controlled by the data files for items (misc.txt I would say) that has a whole bunch of infor for each NPC selling items and what items though can sell and always should sell.
>Is the number 666 in the Hiseed AND or ORed somewhere in the process.
Ehhh, it is SET to that value on initialization. Then it is updated according to the algorithm for the prng I have posted above. From random number generation points of view, all numbers are treated as positive unsigned ones.
>Just a tech question what bit signifies plus or minus on the Intel archictecture?
>The most significant bit of the most signficant byte?
Most significant.
>How does the game know to make a Normal, Nightmare or Hell game when using the seed thing?
>Or is that not part of this process?
That has nothing to do with it. The seed thing is just about geting a random(ish) value(s) into a few places that will then be used for random number generation. There is no other inherant information in the seed values, they have no relation to difficulty or anything such.
For exmaple, selling minor potions instead of major potion has nothing to do with the seeds, since it is not really a random thing (it is part of the few items the vendors always sells and would be controlled by the data files for items (misc.txt I would say) that has a whole bunch of infor for each NPC selling items and what items though can sell and always should sell.
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