Added LVL metadata retrieval methods to ClassicMap

lib/ClassicMap.js

@@ -57,14 +57,41 @@ ltjs.ClassicMap = Class( 'ClassicMap' )
     'private const _SIZE': 576,
 
     /**
-     * Game object size
+     * Game object offset and size
      *
      * The game objects are stores as a 16x16 multi-dimensional signed char
      * array (in the C sources).
      *
-     * @type {number}
+     * @type {Array.<number>}
      */
-    'private const _GOSIZE': 256,
+    'private const _GOSIZE': [ 0, 256 ],
+
+    /**
+     * Offset and length of map name
+     * @type {Array.<number>}
+     */
+    'private const _NAMESIZE': [ 256, 31 ],
+
+    /**
+     * Offset and length of map hint
+     * @type {Array.<number>}
+     */
+    'private const _HINTSIZE': [ 287, 256 ],
+
+    /**
+     * Offset and length of author name
+     * @type {Array.<number>}
+     */
+    'private const _AUTHORSIZE': [ 543, 31 ],
+
+    /**
+     * Offset and length of difficulty level
+     *
+     * 16-bit integer, little-endian
+     *
+     * @type {Array.<number>}
+     */
+    'private const _DIFFSIZE': [ 574, 2 ],
 
     /**
      * Tunnel bitmask
@@ -102,6 +129,12 @@ ltjs.ClassicMap = Class( 'ClassicMap' )
      */
     'private _id': 0,
 
+    /**
+     * Offset of beginning of map data in bytes
+     * @type {number}
+     */
+    'private _offset': 0,
+
 
     /**
      * Initialize map with map data and the given id
@@ -113,6 +146,9 @@ ltjs.ClassicMap = Class( 'ClassicMap' )
     {
         this._data = ''+( data );
         this._id   = +id;
+
+        // calculate map offset in LVL data
+        this._offset = ( this.__self.$( '_SIZE' ) * ( this._id - 1 ) );
     },
 
 
@@ -124,31 +160,14 @@ ltjs.ClassicMap = Class( 'ClassicMap' )
      * game uses a multi-dimensional array [x][y], which creates an array of
      * columns (TPLAYFIELD, LTANK.H).
      *
+     * The object data at the requested position will be loaded and converted to
+     * integers (from a binary string).
+     *
      * @return  {Array.<number>}  array of game objects
      */
     'public getObjects': function()
     {
-        // calculate offset in LVL file
+        var tiles = this._getDataSegment( '_GOSIZE', false ).split( '' ),
-        var offset = ( this.__self.$( '_SIZE' ) * ( this._id - 1 ) );
-        return this._getMapData( offset );
-    },
-
-
-    /**
-     * Retrieve the map data (game objects only) at the requested offset
-     *
-     * The object data at the requested position will be loaded and converted to
-     * integers (from a binary string).
-     *
-     * @param  {number}  offset  offset of the requested map data
-     *
-     * @return  {Array.<number>}  converted map data
-     */
-    'private _getMapData': function( offset )
-    {
-        var tiles = this._data.substr( offset, this.__self.$( '_GOSIZE' ) )
-                .split( '' ),
-
             i     = tiles.length;
 
         while ( i-- )
@@ -160,6 +179,25 @@ ltjs.ClassicMap = Class( 'ClassicMap' )
     },
 
 
+    /**
+     * Retrieve segment of data
+     *
+     * @param  {string}    name       name of constant containing segment dfn
+     * @param  {=boolean}  stripnull  whether to strip null bytes (default true)
+     */
+    'private _getDataSegment': function( name, stripnull )
+    {
+        stripnull = ( arguments.length < 2 ) ? true : !!stripnull;
+
+        var s    = this.__self.$( name ),
+            data = this._data.substr( ( this._offset + s[ 0 ] ), s[ 1 ] );
+
+        return ( stripnull )
+            ? data.split( '\0' )[ 0 ]
+            : data;
+    },
+
+
     /**
      * Retrieve map dimensions
      *
@@ -223,6 +261,74 @@ ltjs.ClassicMap = Class( 'ClassicMap' )
     },
 
 
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map name
+     *
+     * @return  {string}  map name
+     */
+    'public getMapName': function()
+    {
+        return this._getDataSegment( '_NAMESIZE' );
+    },
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map author name
+     *
+     * @return  {string}  map author name
+     */
+    'public getMapAuthor': function()
+    {
+        return this._getDataSegment( '_AUTHORSIZE' );
+    },
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map hint
+     *
+     * @return  {string}  map hint
+     */
+    'public getMapHint': function()
+    {
+        return this._getDataSegment( '_HINTSIZE' );
+    },
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map difficulty
+     *
+     * The map difficulty will be returned as a 0-indexed value between 0 and 4,
+     * with 0 representing "kids" and 4 representing "deadly".
+     *
+     * The original game uses a bitmask for this value (thus the 16-bit
+     * integer), which is really of no particular use. For simplicity's sake, we
+     * will convert it.
+     *
+     * @return  {number}  0-indexed difficulty level
+     */
+    'public getMapDifficulty': function()
+    {
+        var val = this._getDataSegment( '_DIFFSIZE', false ),
+            i   = val.length,
+            n   = 0;
+
+        // first, convert the value to an integer (from little-endian)
+        while ( i-- ) n += ( val.charCodeAt( i ) << ( 8 * i ) );
+
+        // Finally, convert to a simple 0-4 value to represent difficulty by
+        // taking the binary logarithm of the value (lg(n); original game uses
+        // bitmasks). For those who do not understand logarithms, the concept
+        // here is simple: if we are given a difficulty of "hard" (value of 8),
+        // that has a binary representation of: 1000. We are interested in the
+        // position of the 1-bit. Since each bit position is an exponent of two,
+        // we can reverse that calculation with a binary logarithm. So, log2(8),
+        // also written as lg(8), is equal to 3, since 2^3 = 8. Similarly,
+        // "deadly" = 16  = 0001 0000 => lg(16) = 4, and "kids" = 1 = 0001 =>
+        // lg(1) = 0. This gives us a 0-indexed difficulty value.
+        return ( Math.log( n ) / Math.log( 2 ) );
+    },
+
+
     /**
      * Retrieve size of map in bytes
      *

lib/Map.js

@@ -103,6 +103,41 @@ ltjs.Map = Interface( 'Map',
     'public isObjectTunnel': [ 'object_id' ],
 
 
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map name
+     *
+     * @return  {string}  map name
+     */
+    'public getMapName': [],
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map author name
+     *
+     * @return  {string}  map author name
+     */
+    'public getMapAuthor': [],
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map hint
+     *
+     * @return  {string}  map hint
+     */
+    'public getMapHint': [],
+
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve map difficulty
+     *
+     * The map difficulty should be returned as a 0-indexed value between 0 and
+     * 4, with 0 representing "kids" and 4 representing "deadly".
+     *
+     * @return  {number}  0-indexed difficulty level
+     */
+    'public getMapDifficulty': [],
+
+
     /**
      * Retrieve size of map in bytes
      *