Building level editors

Arce · Post by **Arce** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:49 am

An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:51 am

by Arce on Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:49 am

Choose the best reply:
a) Quit dawdling at work!
b) Pay attention in class!

Arce · Post by **Arce** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:09 am

MarauderIIC wrote:
by Arce on Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:49 am
Choose the best reply:
a) Quit dawdling at work!
b) Pay attention in class!

HEY. Clearcase is acting up, and the manager guy who can help isn't here!

Eh, I guess I can be checking out why this test failed...;p

MadPumpkin · Post by **MadPumpkin** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:29 pm

Arce wrote:An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!

says the creator of quite possibly the best level editor ever :}

i love you Arce!!! LEVEL EDITORS ROCK! AND YOURS IS BOMBB!!!!!

Ewan · Post by **Ewan** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:47 pm

MadPumpkin wrote:
Arce wrote:An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!
says the creator of quite possibly the best level editor ever :}

i love you Arce!!! LEVEL EDITORS ROCK! AND YOURS IS BOMBB!!!!!

Kissass.

You're amazing Arce

Post by **eatcomics** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:54 pm

MadPumpkin wrote:
Arce wrote:An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!
says the creator of quite possibly the best level editor ever :}

i love you Arce!!! LEVEL EDITORS ROCK! AND YOURS IS BOMBB!!!!!

Are you kidding I could have done better when I was in third grade! no just kidding, keep up the good work fellas...

MadPumpkin · Post by **MadPumpkin** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:14 am

Ewan wrote:
MadPumpkin wrote:
Arce wrote:An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!
says the creator of quite possibly the best level editor ever :}

i love you Arce!!! LEVEL EDITORS ROCK! AND YOURS IS BOMBB!!!!!
Kissass.

possibly... but its true i love level editors, StarCrafts is the best 2d editor EVER

RyanPridgeon · Post by **RyanPridgeon** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:01 pm

Arce wrote:An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Arce · Post by **Arce** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:10 pm

RyanPridgeon wrote:
Arce wrote:An entire topic dedicated to level editors!? What's wrong with you guys!? How lame! I'd be caught dead before working on one of them!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

What, really? I never knew!

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Naw, I'd classify "useless interjection" right before that.

Also, good luck and some nice discussion here. Hopefully I didn't kill the useful elements of this topic, haha.

avansc · Post by **avansc** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:16 pm

i have noticed that alot if people do something like this

<image 01>
bla.jpg
</image>
...
...
00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00
01 01 01 01 01 01

well i would not do it this way, but if you are doing this. (and especially if you have multi layerd levels)
use some compression. this same map can be represented as something like this

<image 01>
bla.jpg
</image>
...
...
<pat 00>
18
</pat>
<pat 01>
6
</pat>

which would cut down on alot of loading time.

again, i would not recommend using something like this. you can save alot of time and effort if you just write object directly as binary to files

RyanPridgeon · Post by **RyanPridgeon** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:02 pm

That compression is actually a damn good idea. I'm making a small tile-based platformer at the moment and currently it is done with

spritesheet.bmp
32 32
5 4
0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 1 0
0 2 1 3 0
0 0 0 0 0

I might change it to implement something like you just said.

Arce · Post by **Arce** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:37 pm

WAYY back in the day, when Gyro was just a lad, Null loaded files like

01 11 12 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00

Which is pretty stupid and more easily just

01
11
12
00
00
00
00
00
,,,
00

;p

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:57 pm

That was so that we could edit it by hand if we noticed that the level editor had fucked something up.

Post by **eatcomics** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:48 am

GyroVorbis wrote:That was so that we could edit it by hand if we noticed that the level editor had fucked something up.

I think that was a bash to your face arce

Arce · Post by **Arce** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:21 pm

eatcomics wrote:
GyroVorbis wrote:That was so that we could edit it by hand if we noticed that the level editor had fucked something up.
I think that was a bash to your face arce

Naw, that was before I did the editor for him. He wrote his own in SDL.

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