Dark Room/Corridor question

[Hakimoto]

Do the corridors and rooms enveloped in darkness overlap with the normal rooms and corridors?

[Abscondrel]

no. but you might get teleported. that can make a map wonky.

[Stefan_Marley]

As my friend said above, no, but the 'live' map can be confused by the terrain and teleporters. If you cast DUMAPIC it will realign the 'live' map with reality.

[Hakimoto]

Well, my plan was to graph it on graph paper, like the old days. I guess that won't really work.

[Stefan_Marley]

You can still do that,just change DUMAPIC's behavior to Old School mode where it only gives you your coordinates E, N, and D from the dungeon entrance.

[Madd Overlord]

Originally posted by Hakimoto:

Well, my plan was to graph it on graph paper, like the old days. I guess that won't really work.

You can 100% map this old-school. I basically did this, except I used Grid Cartographer instead of graph paper. A lot of alt-tabbing with one monitor. If you have two monitors you can put GC on the 2nd monitor and have it side-by-side.

As far as the original question, the darkness doesn't "overlap" per se. However, they can put a "turntable" or "teleport" in the darkness which could spin you around or move you to a different square. Usually you can see a very brief "flash" of the screen when something like this happens. It's extremely subtle, but you can tell.

The only other thing that I would remind you is that you are working with a 20x20 grid. When you get near one of the ends of the grid and there's an opening, you are not stepping off the grid, but actually on the first square on the opposite end of the grid.

For example, on the grid below if you are standing on 0N,0E facing south and take one step forward, you will end up on square 19N,0E

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3346085207