Creatures Caves

Yes, you add emitters to the green rooms set with a soil type. That unfortunately means that a Norn might be "walking through" 'normal sand' or whatever the soil/room type is, but this is how CL set it up.

Blue "rooms" are actually not rooms at all, rather, they are the absence of rooms, defining where the "green" rooms meet dead space and do not form another room/are not adjacent to another room. The green lines are actually showing you where one room meets another.

Sometimes the lines will be red or yellow (if memory serves). Red lines mean that the permeability between those rooms is null, in that no objects can pass that line. Yellow lines mean that the permeability is something else, which may or may not allow Norns or objects set on a certain plane to pass through (think “wooden platforms in Creatures 3” where the apples would sometimes land on, and other times fall through, the platforms). You would have to use the room editor or CAOS to tell what the permeability is actually set too, but in the case of setting up nutrients, you probably won’t need to know.

When adding emitters to one of these green rooms, only add one per room. The game fills them like a cup. In the image above, you see there are four green rooms fully visible. Adding one, say “light” emitter to the room on the far left will cause that room to “fill” with light, and the green room next to it will start filling also, and it will overflow like this so on and so forth to other rooms until it reaches maximum entropy and there’s nothing left to spill. If you’re using my Room Changer tool, you’ve probably already observed this.

If the room was alone with no adjacent rooms, it would fill with light very quickly and top off at some rather high point (though probably not the maximum of 1.000 CA value, as all rooms and CA values do have some entropy into nothingness). Some properties like nutrients don’t flow as well as say, light, and they might slowly trickle from room to room and eventually “die off” quicker.

With respects to placing emitters, let’s say that hypothetically you place a nutrient emitter in the far left room, and you notice that after several minutes of gameplay, there are nutrients in the other rooms, but not the one on the far right because the spillover died off at the room before. In this case, you might add another nutrient emitter to the room on the far right, or even a room or two over further (anticipating more falloff/trickle).

CA values will not trickle through “blue” rooms, as they are not rooms and are not capable of holding CA values. Also, the size of a "green" room does not matter, it will fill at the same rate as any other green room and trickle accordingly.

I hope this helps.

Feel free to ask more questions.