great!
Maximizing in windows works fine, although moving the window border (making it larger) sometimes doesn't update the map/screen. It updates as soon as you release the border though.
numpf - Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:42 pm
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- the SS shrtfont.bm2 is brutal at high resolutions. If you don't want to wander outside traditional SS rendering and support TTFs, support font switching or at least make tallfont.bm2 the default. Fairly big usability problem for me.
- Imo default should be disallowing placement of special (all?) tiles in 'impossible' places, not overwrite. Modifier key for overwrite.
- I don't think SS map editors should have filled rectangle tools, or if they do, they should require you to click-through a warning dialog on first-use. Filled rects cause an FPS hit due to the sheer number of blts. A click-through warning would say that, and that the best way to achieve a visually filled area is to have a tile outline with an LVZ map object inside.
- Make radar F# togglable.
- If/When you get to line-tiling, make lines axis-restricted by default, with a modifier key for free placement. Diagonal tiling is cute, but without angled physical surfaces, x=c/y=c lines are more physically natural.
Other than that, thanks for writing something I can use without booting over to windows.
-numpf
Smong - Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:31 pm
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What do you mean by imposible places? Do you mean placing a stamp near the bottom/right edge?
The filled rectangle tool was originally so you could paint regions quickly. As for a click through box, I'm not going to invent my own UI components inside SDL. I am slowly learning gtk and would rather code a map editor in that so you can enter parameters for regions and stuff.
Radar toggle, ok (I'll change the radar generation algo so it's faster). I'll also make it so if you click in the radar it warps you there. Just found a bug if you have the palette open, and then hold alt and paint where the palette would be.
Anonymous - Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:43 pm
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impossible = overlapping an existing tile.
A warning could be on the console, or could be a popup like f2/esc that says 'enter to continue' or similar. Doesn't need to be a UI component in the context of a framework, just an extremely limited-purpose graphic.
-numpf
Maverick - Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:19 am
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Smong;
- How do you create a new region?
- How can you replace a new tileset to a map? (How about 24-bit support for this $ )
- Can you extract the tileset from a map?
Dusted can become a real good replacement for SSME because I am getting sick of SSME's limitations.
Anonymous - Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:47 am
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Overlapping existing tile? The reason I'm having trouble understanding this is you're making it sound like you should only be able to add tiles to empty spaces and not edit tiles already in place.
- How do you create a new region?
?mkrgn <name>
To remove one, first select the region with the ticker and use ?remove.
Region support is minimal so there aren't any other features (like save regions).
- How can you replace a new tileset to a map? (How about 24-bit support for this $ )
Just do ?go <whatever.bmp> and then ?save <whatever.lvl> and there you have a map with tileset whatever.bmp (any bit depth).
- Can you extract the tileset from a map?
In the graphics folder there is a bmp called 'last-tiles.bmp'. Not sure why you asked for this feature, mspaint does the job nicely.
Mr Ekted - Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:32 pm
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