Exclude-option for regional spawns

[Xuri]

It would be nice to have the option to define, within a spawnregion section in spawn.dfn, an area to be excluded from spawning. This would make it a lot easier to setup advanced spawn regions where you have areas that shouldn't be spawned in. Instead of having five independent spawnregion sections surrounding the area not to be spawned in, you could have one spawnregion with one (or more?) defined areas for exclusion.

Thanks to Stonehand for that sensible (to me at least) suggestion

[Grimson]

That shouldn't be too hard, but mspawnf v1.2 has the bad habit to remove any tags that are unknown to it, upon saving of the spawn file. So we would also need a better editor for the spawn.dfn, because managing some hundred spawnregions by hand isn't very pleasant .

[Xuri]

What? But I thought everyone liked managing hundreds of spawnregions by hand Too bad we don't have the source for that particular tool.

[Maarc]

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/u ... onDisplay/

4 years old, written in VB. Probably not that hard to port it from VB -> C# or something more modern. That, or I help Xuri write a VB version of the ToolAPI we're beginning in the CVS. Sure, it's region display, not region modification ... but it's half the battle

I don't know what tool developers we have floating around, but I'm prepared to help (when I have free time) with developing tools, and with fleshing out the API, so that people can develop more freely.