Generally, the tileset itself probably won't have much to do with it. I take it you opened it as a .qst file and started to work within it? Heck, I'd do the same thing.
Generally, the Dmaps themselves have to do with that sort of behavior. Here's a few basic requirements for the "Special Item" type rooms.
1) Cave or Dungeon style Dmaps. (Maybe even BS-Overworld maps. Never tried it though. Not worth it.)
2) If it's the sort of room where there's a "guy" in there that says something and holds the item out for you to pick up, then that room needs a guy, a string (The message), a room type of Special Item, and the actual Item. The item itself is
not set in the "item" dialogue but in the per-room-type item category. Press "A" in ZQuest to see it, assuming you have the room set to special item. The normal, unrelated item panel's shortcut is "i" - Big differences between them. For special items, use A on the main ZQuest screen.
3) Do try not to have a regular item (i) and a Special item (A) on the same screen. They tend to fight slightly in weird ways.
also i dont know what tile to use for the caves. the normal tile looks weird because of the cave cset. how do i change the cave cset? or am i supposed to use a different tile than the normal wall?
What do you mean,
tile? Do you mean the combo that warps you into a cave?
In general, the palette that you see in ZQuest is only a preview of what the screen would look like
IF you used a certain Palette. The
ACTUAL palette that it will be in-game is determined in the Dmap editor. It's definitely not something that a person would want to confuse.
The term "Cset" refers to a row of 16 colors found within each Palette. Between each actual level palette (That differentiates between an overworld, or a cave, or a sunny beach, or a dungeon, etc.) there are only Csets #2, #3, #4, and #9 (9 is for sprites) that tend to change between each
Palette. All the other Csets remain the same between each Palette.
So when you're flipping between Csets with Keypad + and -, and you see a lot of the same colors consistently except for Csets 2, 3, 4, and 9, now you know why.
I hope this answers some questions. Somehow.