2009-10-22, 12:00 AM
Making an easier way to design multi level maps could be a very good thing. SoM maps are already fully 3D and there are multi-level map Pieces that come with SoM (Piece #103 etc) and there is the multi-level 'castle building' set I made. The multi-layer Pieces aren't necessarily user friendly though. The main problem is that event triggers are like a column that goes all the way up and down- so events on a lower level will trigger when the player is on the upper floors etc. It's easy to work around this problem by turning events that are on other layers off until the player is on the correct level.
I had the idea to make a simple program that could take a 100x100 Piece sized 3d model (in a common format like 3DS) and automatically cut it into SoM map Piece sized squares- then lastly it would auto-generate a map file that had all the cut Pieces placed consecutively. That would let builders move away from the blocky Pieces that come with SoM and easily make flowing, complex ground layer environments.
I had the idea to make a simple program that could take a 100x100 Piece sized 3d model (in a common format like 3DS) and automatically cut it into SoM map Piece sized squares- then lastly it would auto-generate a map file that had all the cut Pieces placed consecutively. That would let builders move away from the blocky Pieces that come with SoM and easily make flowing, complex ground layer environments.