Sexier Map Editor

[L0lz]

Yeah, the old one is alright, but I'd be nicer it was a bit bigger, you could zoom out, and in, and when you were to create a new map you could edit the size, making it a bit smaller than usual if you have a  70x70 map or something, and you could add npcs on the spot with a click on the map. (kind of like RMXP) might be hard to make but it's a wish i'm wishing for.

[lucifer1101]

i second this

[Spainion]

IF they set up the scrolling maps propery this wouldn't be very hard, they could make a smooth scrolling in and out bar in like 20 minutes.

[Niko]

Just have a propertie you change in the map editor that defines the size for everyone. Then it just gets saved with the map data instead of a .ini and gets loaded upon map load.

[lucifer1101]

that would work pretty good

[Inunah]

I fortyth that, and wanna add onto that. Map editor can be like TE's? It's so simple that even a caveman can do it. *Hehe, used a copyrighted joke*

[xeross]

sounds good, also an undo/redo system would be handy if you phuck up

[mrmiguu]

I think it would also pwn if we could make an offline map editor, that way we could send it to our friends and they could make maps without bothering player's during gameplay and they could just be uploaded. I nineth this idea… lol

[shadowwulf]

I was half expecting a request for Hentia in the background or something lol

I cant think of much that would make the map more functional.

@MrMiguu:

> I think it would also pwn if we could make an offline map editor, that way we could send it to our friends and they could make maps without bothering player's during gameplay and they could just be uploaded. I nineth this idea… lol

just dont link to the maps until the area is finished. If you mean correcting something on a map being used. You dont pose any issue by editing when players are on the map because the file isnt changed until you hit save, at that point it just does a refresh foreveryone. if you game is being played by this point, you shouldnt be throwing a house on someones head or anything like that.

throwing npc spawn around like an attribute would be too hard to code…*evil snickers*

[lucifer1101]

well the way he actually meant it was that you dont actually have to have your game running to be able to edit the maps. like an external map editor that the mapper may use on his computer and then in the internal map editor you could just have a map load button.
i hope that covers it eh MrMigoo?

[Niko]

a stand alone exe, for people who are not connected to the internet at the time but still want to work on a different players game.

[Rogue]

a map editor where you dont have to flick back and forth between the map and the tile sets to place one tile or attribute…

[Lenton]

What about an .exe which is just the map editor and you can load the map file from your SERVER/MAPS folder. (wouldn't be too hard to make..)

[lucifer1101]

i think that that is something that would be needed

[isaac128]

oh man… Rogue has good point, i hate having to click in the screen to refocus window... how you could do this... no idea... maybe try to condense editor window, then if its small enough it can just hang on the side of the game->map window. If you had a seperate map editor .exe you would have more space for above mentioned because you wouldnt need the stats and chat.

I (what number am I?)th these ideas

[Loelin]

How about i code this thing, Making this in VB.NET isn't that hard

actually it could be but I dont care

All we need is a few coders, a nice logo, and a couple of beta testers to do it

So,who's up for it?

[JadeCurt1ss]

Eighty-billionth's everyone's ideas. I was going to suggest something, but it got taken already x]

[L0lz]

@Loelin:

> How about i code this thing, Making this in VB.NET isn't that hard
>
> actually it could be but I dont care
>
> All we need is a few coders, a nice logo, and a couple of beta testers to do it
>
> So,who's up for it?

I could make the logo. Lawl. Zooming in an out is heaven for me imo. Also, a better grid. :3

[demon xxx x]

@Rogue:

> a map editor where you dont have to flick back and forth between the map and the tile sets to place one tile or attribute…

[Zuleloan]

wait until after 2.8 because of directx 8, it will add alpha blending and particles.