Map Editing - Feature placer

Map Editing - Feature placer

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GunSgtHighway
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Map Editing - Feature placer

Post by GunSgtHighway »

Hi everyone!

I started to create my own spring maps and be struggling with placing.
Cause I can't find helpfull doc's I hope someone here knows the answers.

1. When using the feature placer, can I rotate the objects?
2. How can I save the map?
3. Can I import my own objects to the features?

Hope you guys could help?

Best regards!
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Forboding Angel
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

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Use engine v96. The dump button is in the bottom of the screen. It dumps to my games/spring.
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The Yak
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

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I have a custom version of the feature placer lua gadget (thanks smoth) that I use to randomly rotate features by setting their rotation in set.lua to "-1". Much easier then trying to manually rotate stuff. You can find it in most of my newer maps with features, Zed 2.2 for example.

If you need further help ask here or in #zkmap channel. This area of mapping is admittedly documented poorly.

EDIT: Attached the gadget in question
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Forboding Angel
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

Post by Forboding Angel »

Realistically Scened should be used, but it's not really documented much, that I know of.
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The Yak
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

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Scened is also quite complex to get setup, and eventually getting an upgrade with the new name of SpringBoard. Scened cannot do random feature rotation either IIRC.
gajop
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

Post by gajop »

The Yak wrote:Scened is also quite complex to get setup, and eventually getting an upgrade with the new name of SpringBoard.
True, but it's getting easier (it's on rapid now).
The Yak wrote:Scened cannot do random feature rotation either IIRC.
It can, for a year now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTn8PMPCksM
https://github.com/Spring-SpringBoard/S ... te.lua#L77
GunSgtHighway
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

Post by GunSgtHighway »

Thanks a lot for all the help!
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The Yak
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

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My knowledge of springboard is clearly out of date, I eagerly await a release ready for general public usage.
Senethril
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Re: Map Editing - Feature placer

Post by Senethril »

its works verywell for editwater, smooth terrain and export features into a way you need to reuse..(even without ba version and for others mods)
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