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Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 02 Dec 2009, 03:16
by Frostregen
1. Makes sense. (I think I left it out on purpose for easy testing stuff back then)
2. This was my first approach,
but it is quite limiting:
-does not allow reuse of heightmap/texturemap/featuremap
Main problem is Height and LevelOverlap:
Those values are valid for a single batch of tiles only. Each and every different tileset NEEDS those values adjusted differently.
An additional Height-Modifier in GUI could be added though.
How long does it take to actually create a useful prefab compared to creating this file by copy&paste&editing 3 lines?
Edit:
Maybe in combination with category subdirectories this could be done:
-One .tdf with Height/LevelOverlap per directory, which is used for all hmap/texmap/fmaps inside this dir.
Still I do not like this limitation somehow :-/
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 01 Jan 2010, 17:09
by Beherith
After about 512 features, the menu render stops.
Also, 3do feature support would be awesome:
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java.io.IOException: .S3O load: Did not find magic "Spring unit" marker
at frontend.render.features.FeatureLoader.loadHeader(FeatureLoader.java:
204)
at frontend.render.features.FeatureLoader.loadFeature(FeatureLoader.java
:81)
at frontend.render.features.FeatureManager.loadFeature(FeatureManager.ja
va:155)
at frontend.render.MapRenderer.getFeatureImageData(MapRenderer.java:2172
)
at frontend.gui.FeatureSelectionDialog.animate(FeatureSelectionDialog.ja
va:169)
at frontend.gui.SpringMapEditDialog.animate(SpringMapEditDialog.java:184
7)
at frontend.gui.SpringMapEditGUI.run(SpringMapEditGUI.java:686)
at application.SpringMapEditApplication.main(SpringMapEditApplication.ja
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 01 Jan 2010, 19:20
by smoth
Frostregen wrote:How long does it take to actually create a useful prefab compared to creating this file by copy&paste&editing 3 lines?
The tdf creation is the tedious part. photoshop+slices means I can generate tile images within seconds after I have made the prefabs.
the fact that they are all stored right now in a common dir also causes conflict issues.
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 10 Jan 2010, 16:44
by smoth
another bug, sme rejects a tdf with whitespace...
so say:
Description = I like to punch babies;
will make the tdf invalid in sme.
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 14:02
by Jonny5isalivetm
Hi folks im running windows 7 64 and when i click on the "start_win64.bat" bad things happen..
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 14:05
by Beherith
edit .bat file to contain the path to java.exe (yes you need java installed)
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%WINDIR%\system32\java.exe -classpath springmapedit.jar;lib_win64/gluegen-rt.jar;lib_win64/jogl.jar;lib_win64/swt.jar -Xms128m -Xmx1024m -Djava.library.path=lib_win64 application.SpringMapEditApplication
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 14:53
by Jonny5isalivetm
cheers behe yea java is installed
Jonny
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 17 Jan 2010, 13:30
by erandur
I fixed the "can't find java.exe" problem by just copy/pasting java.exe to system32. :) Probably not the best way to fix it, but it works...
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 17 Jan 2010, 14:33
by AF
ahk thats very bad
What you need to do is put the folder java is in on the end of your pATH variable
Didnt anybody bother to google this?!
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 17 Jan 2010, 14:49
by TradeMark
oh no, another path-variable-a-must -program
windows != linux, when do you learn that guys... dont expect windows users know how to do anything else than copy/move files
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 17 Jan 2010, 16:01
by FLOZi
I thought Java added itself to PATH when it installs? Maybe its only the jdk that does that.
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 17 Jan 2010, 20:43
by KaiserJ
one funny thing i've noticed using SME on vista
if i dont have "classic windows" style set, it loads up and seems to be rendering using my graphics card (landscape looks nice) but it doesnt respond or refresh... unable to change camera angle etc.
if i start it in classic mode, it works normally, but the rendering looks pretty crappy, i think its using my software renderer.
so yeah; if anyone failed to get it to work on vista; try classic mode.
and where is the defenition for what rendering method to use; what file is it hidden in?
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 15:28
by AF
Vista + SME + Aero == uber slowness freezing
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 18:44
by TradeMark
SME + nothing = uber slowness freezing
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 22:28
by KaiserJ
did you try classic windows style?
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 23:04
by Frostregen
Aero sucks quite massive fps from SME, this is true.
Please supply some more information about cpu/ram/gfxcard/mapsize/fps, rather than just "its slow".
And what about freezing? When, where?
(There is a progress bar sometimes within the black commandline)
Currently are exams again, so very little love for SME, but it will be worked on again definitely.
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 23:39
by Jazcash
AF wrote:Vista + SME + Aero == uber slowness freezing
Vista = Uber slowness freezing.
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 19:29
by SirArtturi
Are you still developing this program?
I'd like add few suggestions which would increase the usability and easiness a lot.
1. Not only that SME featureplacer is very picky about tdfs, it actually shouldnt be depended of tdfs at all... (At least add lua support)
2. Featureplacer rotation is not working
3. Feature deleter or eraser could be handy (Actually more than handy, IT IS CRUCIAL, because if you miss it, then its fail and you need to do the whole thing again)
4. Save map tool should export pure rgb image, feature map so to say in png or bmp format. Not .fmf - What is that anyway? What can I do with it?
5. Maybe you could add Compiling options/panel and use Beherits latest mapconv and maybe implementation of Das Bruces GUI for it.
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 8&start=60
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 20:21
by SeanHeron
On 1-3: Features, it could be argued, are perhaps addressed better in other frameworks anyhow... Sure it's nice to have all in one functionality, and I'm not trying to say it wouldn't be good to add/improve the things your saying SirArturri. But I'd argue that the time may be better spent on other functionality, since "after compile" feature editing is a pretty big bonus (and adding that kind of functionality would require some kind of standard between Worldbuilder and FeaturePlacer, I would have thought).
So I would suggest going for 4+5 first :).
Re: New Mapping Tool - "SpringMapEdit" - r913
Posted: 25 Feb 2010, 16:57
by Erik
How to get a map to work in Spring?
I exported it into the map folder but it said sth about missing archieves? What else do i have to do?