The demo CookBook¶
nfty carries a finished collection inside it. You do not have to download it, find it or build it — it is part of the program, and it is there on a fresh copy with nothing else on the machine.
On the opening screen, click Open the demo CookBook.
It writes a real ChestDemo.cbk into a demo folder beside the application and opens it in the
Explorer. From that point nothing about it is special: it is an ordinary CookBook, it has the same
edit lock, and Cook produces a real Set.
From the command line, the same book:
What is in it¶
A collection of layered treasure chests, drawn at 32×32.
| Layer | Kind | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Glow | Dynamic | Sparks or runes floating around the chest. Usually absent. |
| Body | Dynamic | The chest itself — planked, plated or stone. |
| Bands | Dynamic | Hoops, corner brackets or straps. |
| Trim | Custom | Gilt edging or set gems. Usually absent. |
| Feet | Custom | Corner blocks or a runner rail, in aged pewter. |
| Lock | Static | A keyhole, latch, padlock or keypad. |
Two Recipes share those layers: Chest, with a domed lid, and Strongbox, with a flat one.
That is deliberately one of everything the manual talks about:
- All three layer kinds. The Body and Bands roll their own color on every asset; the Lock is one fixed brass for the whole collection; the Trim and the Feet are full-color art composited exactly as drawn.
- Two optional layers. Glow is absent 72% of the time and Trim 55%, which is what makes some chests plain and a few of them special.
- A rule. A stone chest never carries a keypad.
- Weighted color bands. A body rolls warm timber about 60% of the time and cold metal the rest, rather than any color at all.
Eighteen small drawings, and 615,600 distinct assets. That is why the art is gray, stated as a file you can open.
That figure is exact, not an estimate, and it is exact on purpose: nfty counts the space rather than guessing at it, and the demo's quantize steps are chosen so it stays countable. Cook a thousand of them and every one is different.
It is yours to break¶
Reorder the layers, delete a variant, repaint the lock, change the weights, cook it and look at the result. Reopening the demo does not restore it — your copy stays as you left it.
To get a clean one back, delete demo/ChestDemo.cbk and click the button again, or run:
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