                       M o n E d i t P r o   v 2 . 0

                               FEATURES.TXT


 I'm just gonna take this step by step, like the editor has...  the LordMon
 support section is written in CLEARLY at the bottom.



 -[ ) - Drop to Lowest Record ]-   Hit this once, and you'll drop to the
                                   lowest record inside your level.  Hit it
                                   again, and drop to 1st level, 1st record.


 -[ ) - Raise to Highest Rec  ]-   Hit this once, and you'll raise to the
                                   highest record inside your level.  Hit it
                                   again, and goto to 12th level, 10th rec.


 -[ I - Increase Dungeon Dif. ]-   Increases the Dungeon difficulty - in
                                   other words, the Monsters' strengths...
                                   This is a powerful command, it tends
                                   to up the difficulty of the dungeon a
                                   slight amount.  NOTE: this works on
                                   level & global scale.  This way, you can
                                   make Level 10 not quite as hard as
                                   everyone moans about.  Also, it may not
                                   move it up high enough for you --
                                   experiment!


 -[ D - Decrease Dungeon Dif.  ]-  Opposite of Increasing...<G>  Will bring
                                   the levels back to normal.


 -[ G - Go Color Nuts!         ]-  Ugh.  I don't look forward to this! <G>
                                   Ok...  Basically, to simplify these
                                   routines a bit, I have created three main
                                   ways to do it -- by Monster, Level, or
                                   All Monsters.  All of them do the same
                                   thing -- which is to put color into your
                                   monsters without having to do any work
                                   yourself.  I have one suggestion for
                                   everyone who uses this routine --
                                   EXPERIMENT!  Do the colors on only one
                                   record, and find what looks best.  Then
                                   do it globally.  Of course, there's
                                   always the UNDO (<S>trip Colors)!  I'll
                                   take the main routine apart:


                                   1) Select Modifiers (Name, Weapon, Death)

                                         By pressing N, W, or D, you toggle
                                      whether or not to run the colors on
                                      that particular field.  Hit Q when
                                      you're done selecting.


                                   2) Random Multiplier (1 out of x)

                                         Enter a number in here that will
                                      determine whether or not color is
                                      added.  The lower the number, the
                                      greater chance that color will be
                                      added -- to 1, that is.  (NOTE: in
                                      the <T>otally Random routines, there
                                      is another random multiplier built
                                      in, so don't be surprised if you hit
                                      "1" and it doesn't change every letter)


                                   3) <T>otally Random or <W>ord Grouping?

                                         When I started writing this, I
                                      realized that some sysops would want
                                      a completely washed out text, and
                                      others would want one color per word,
                                      not 2 different colors in one word.
                                      So, if you want 1 color per word,
                                      choose <W>ord Grouping (this just
                                      means every word won't have 2 colors
                                      in it -- it doesn't mean that every
                                      word has a "unique" color), if you
                                      don't mind craziness, choose <T>.
                                      Keep in mind -- EXPERIMENT!


                                      MORE NOTES ABOUT COLOR: Here are some
                                      interesting/important things to know
                                      about the coloring...  First of all,
                                      don't worry about if the color is
                                      going to cut off the end of your line,
                                      MonEditPro checks for that.  Secondly,
                                      it won't put two of the same color
                                      codes in a row (it's not _that_
                                      stupid!).  Also, remember that your
                                      UNDO button in the <S>trip Color key.
                                      Oh, one more thing -- When you select
                                      to do an in-depth color nuts, like
                                      "ALL" in LordMon mode, you will see
                                      "PROCESSING..." on the screen.  This
                                      will blink 12 times...  Please do NOT
                                      think that your system has crashed!
                                      This is normal!  Wait for it to
                                      finish, this should NEVER crash!


 -[ S - Strip Color Codes        ] -  This one's easy -- it'll just strip
                                      the colors made on a monster/level/
                                      all basis.  Strips ALL colors, a good
                                      "UNDO" for the Go Color Nuts!



 -= A Few More Notes About Speed =-

           Ok, I know that in places MONEDITPRO is slow.  There's nothing
       I can do about it, I've re-written all of the LordMon code for it at
       least 4 or 5 times for each section.  Anyway, when simply moving
       around and editing, everything's superfast.  However, when doing some
       of the <I>/<D>/Color/Stripping, it gets slow -- it won't crash, in
       LordMon mode, it just takes a bit.  No TOO long...<G>... In normal
       (non-LordMon) mode, everything's pretty fast...




-= The Usual Cry for Help! =-

     Yes, it's me again.  I need helps in writing my docs.  However, on the
other lordware utils, the docs I get from people are just "beautified"...
Who cares how good it looks???  (I don't!)  What I need is someone to:
A) take what I've said and make it CLEARER for people (I'll let my co-sysops
judge on these) and B) say what I've forgotten.  If all you want to do is
rewrite a small SECTION of the docs, please, by all means, go ahead!  If you
do a great job, you'll get a surprise! <G>




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     I'm going to try and make this simple...  Bear with me! <G>

     First of all, LordMon is a program created by Thomas Carlisle to add
  more monsters to LORD.  UNREGISTERED copies of this go up to 20 monsters
  per level, registered, almost infinite.  (Registration is only $3!)

     Second of all, I think that this is a wonderful program, and MonEditPro
  supports this format 110% (but only LordMon v1.0 presently - when the data
  structures are updated, I will come out with a new version of MonEditPro).
  If you are currently USING LordMon, say "YES" to the opening question
  ("LordMon detected, should I use MonEditPro's LordMon editing?").  If you
  have it on your hard drive, but are not currently using the SHUFFLE.EXE,
  say NO to this.

     If you have no idea about what I'm talking about, don't worry, if
  MonEditPro does not detect any LEVEL*.DAT files, you won't have to even
  THINK about it.  But, please do, it's a great program! <G>

     If you are interested in getting LordMon, please call Thomas Carlisle's
  BBS, The TC Software BBS, (701) 727--4842 or (701) 727-6931. Both lines
  support up to 14.4kbps.


-J.






