NonMarbleMadness

Tile-set number whose only live consequence is whether the alternate artwork extension is tried when a tile file is missing.

Specification

Applies to: tile controls
File: theater control file
Section: [<TileSet ID>]
Value: integer
When omitted: 65535A non-zero figure, so the alternate extension is tried.

Two different things happen to the value, and only one of them matters.

The figure is tested for being non-zero while the set’s tiles are looked for on disk. When a tile’s theater file is missing and the figure is non-zero, the same name is tried again with the alternate terrain extension — .MMT in the temperate theater and .MMS elsewhere — and the tile takes that artwork if it is there. Setting the key to 0 suppresses that second attempt, and the tile is left with no artwork of its own. Nothing about the number is used here; only whether it is zero.

[TileSet0631]         ; example set that has no alternate artwork
SetName=Riverbank cliffs
FileName=RVCLIF
TilesInSet=8
NonMarbleMadness=0    ; do not look for RVCLIF01.MMT and its fellows

The figure is also treated as a tile-set number and resolved, once the file has been read, into a tile index in the named set. That result is never read by anything, and MarbleMadness — which is resolved the same way — describes what the unchecked resolution does with a number the theater has no set for.

See also — MarbleMadness, FileName