2010-09-13, 07:03 PM
(2010-09-13, 05:37 PM)dragoonblade link Wrote: There's a question I have right now, because it's now starting to frustrate me when I'm trying to work on my maps. When I show a preview in the map editor for putting any items or enemies into position, the map cell often doesn't show, and enemies and items for the likes don't appear at all. This makes editing the maps rather difficult so I was wondering if anyone knew how to bypass that problem. I think it's the directX I use but unfortunately, I can't downgrade or other things I enjoy will break (and that will suck. Hard.)
It sounds like you're trying to make a game with Vista or Windows 7. To put it simply that is not possible. Games are playable, but you really want to use Ex. Eventually I'd like to be able to give the editors the same treatment as the game runtimes (exe file that is the game program) but that's going to be a while yet.
In the meantime you need to use Windows XP. Hopefully you have an old (or new) computer laying around. Alternatively you can use a "virtual machine". If you're using 7 (Windows) you might be able to download "XP Mode" from the MS website, but you will still need an XP disc to install some extra components. The disc does not have to be licensed or anything. The main VM options I've heard of are VMWare and Virtual PC (a Microsoft product) ... the VMWare client is free if you have an image of a PC you can use with it (which I don't know if there are any restrictions on) and "XP Mode" is actually just Virtual PC with XP preloaded.
I've tried to lean on Todd to help create a Sword of Moonlight SDK that installs a VM with everything you need preloaded, but things like that almost never get done around here. Just too selfish/uncoordinated
PS: Also Som is not painfully slow the way it is on Vista/7. That's a bug in one form or another. Now you know, so it's your job to tell the next soul that wanders thru
