Map editor

AVS · January 17, 2016, 9:06am

System requirements

Any desktop OS (windows and linux known to work, OSX not tested but also should)
OpenGL 3.3+

Repository

Latest release
v0.1.15-alpha

Screenshots

Missing features

campaign support
Map and town events (to be unified with win-loss conditions in Triggered events)[not started]
Terrain palette animations
auto-adjusting appearance based on terrain
RMG inside editor (depends on planned VCMI_lib integration)

Warmonger · January 17, 2016, 5:46pm

Great news . So what does editor actually do for now?

AVS · January 17, 2016, 9:35pm

Editor is editing maps

Terrain, roads, all original and modded objects with options, player options, map options, triggered events. Can import h3m but save only vcmi ziped json. Uses configuration from vcmi.

Nephretes · January 19, 2016, 11:27am

Great! Looking forward for release and later to see additional functions. Thanks for your work.

Macron1 · January 19, 2016, 12:33pm

“auto-adjusting appearance based on terrain”

What is this? If this is replacing DEFs which dont have current terrain in “allowedTerrains” by DEFs which have, than this is not needed (user placing objects must do this by himself).

AVS · January 19, 2016, 12:39pm

Not exactly that it changing already placed objects appearance on terrain edit. Feature has been requested as it is and will be implemented (but later). @Macron1 Also Im not accept request to “not add” feature

Macron1 · January 19, 2016, 3:21pm

So on terrain change object will change DEF?
What if DEF configuration differs (object has another size and visible/passable/not passable cells for another terrain? I already have lot of mod objects that serve like University (for example), but have different sizes/look in terms of mask.
Than this feature can be turned on/off i guess. Or compare mask and replace object only if masks equal.

AVS · January 19, 2016, 4:43pm

Feature will be obviously optional, mask compatibility also should be checked. Animation is selected from this object but from any other with same handler - map editor even ignore handlers.

SXX · January 20, 2016, 1:23am

There is plenty of objects in H3 that identical on all terrains except for appearance. It’s my suggestion so probably I’ll eventually try to contribute it to editor.

AVS · February 23, 2016, 10:26pm

Next milestone achieved! Random generated map is looks playable as normal map.

I think it`s a time to think about merging part 1 aka PR 146.

Tooandorisu · February 25, 2016, 6:27pm

Nice! Can’t wait

Warmonger · February 26, 2016, 11:13am

Is there anything particular that needs to be revieved? Quite a huge commit.

AVS · February 26, 2016, 3:25pm

There were already some regressions, mostly afraid of more. (New code - the format itself will be changed anyway also it will have more automatic tests.) There are not trivial changes in RMG, please look at them.

Warmonger · February 29, 2016, 1:28pm

RMG works ok as far as I see. Ready for merge?

How about releasing editor tommorow?

Tooandorisu · February 29, 2016, 7:17pm

Please do

AVS · February 29, 2016, 7:27pm

As for branch probably yes. Some further work can be done in upstream.

I do not want to release editor until map format will be frozen - I do some changes often. PR 146 is only part 1 (2 more planned before 0.99)

But I can do release.

Warmonger · February 29, 2016, 7:54pm

Well, we could say it’s only beta version for 0.98g.

AVS · February 29, 2016, 8:41pm

I`ve added a release draft on GitHub.

Warmonger · March 1, 2016, 6:55am

Hm?

AVS · March 1, 2016, 7:00am

github.com/vcmi/vcmi_editor/releases

You have access to release draft. Please test attached binary before we release it to public.