2009-11-12, 09:32 PM
How do you go from "map 63" (your scratch space) to the map the user wants to be editing? Do you just overwrite the map number the user thinks (?) they're working with when they hit save or what?
I think what you're doing is probably more practical for some applications than what I had in mind. Like my next editor utility would do map offsets of tiles or square regions of tiles. Still it would still be useful to convert all of your operations into command line tools so they could be leveraged by other systems without going thru the map editor as such. You might even find it more clear to do everything that way, so your AI agent would be more of a thin layer accessing a wide array of utilities on the fly (might run faster as well depending on what sort of technology you're using to manipulate these files)
I tend to just develop tools as I require them right now. Even though Tom hates my guts I've pumped a lot of hours working with his DoM maps and I wouldn't mind being able to recenter them if only by a few tiles. So that is what I'd planned to do next. I hope you beat me to it however.
I think what you're doing is probably more practical for some applications than what I had in mind. Like my next editor utility would do map offsets of tiles or square regions of tiles. Still it would still be useful to convert all of your operations into command line tools so they could be leveraged by other systems without going thru the map editor as such. You might even find it more clear to do everything that way, so your AI agent would be more of a thin layer accessing a wide array of utilities on the fly (might run faster as well depending on what sort of technology you're using to manipulate these files)
I tend to just develop tools as I require them right now. Even though Tom hates my guts I've pumped a lot of hours working with his DoM maps and I wouldn't mind being able to recenter them if only by a few tiles. So that is what I'd planned to do next. I hope you beat me to it however.