Andor's Trail

oskarwiksten wrote:Hello hblok, welcome to the forums!

Sorry for the extremely late update on this. I should have commented on this ages ago when you posted it.

Wow, nice work!

This looks like a really neat application, and really something that could be useful as a stand-alone tool for the game. The worldmap we will have in-game will require a whole different approach, to not consume as much memory, since our aim is at around 16MB(!) allocated memory on the device. But as a stand-alone tool, this is really interesting. For example, for the upcoming worldmap I think we'll need to assign something like "world-coordinates" to each map, to make the process of stitching them together a bit more efficient, and a tool like this could really help with that!

It may not be as obvious, but we have an early version of a sort of world-map in a tmx-file that we use when developing new maps, to remember the names of each map:
http://code.google.com/p/andors-trail/s ... ld_map.tmx
Maybe this tool can be adapted into generating such a map automatically? Could be really nice, and would save a lot of work in maintaining that file.

I should also add that your idea of a javascript/html5 worldmap sounds really interesting. If you are interested in continuing on that, and want to get over the zlib compression obstacle, I have heard that the "jsxcompressor" library can do zlib and deflate decompression in pure javascript:
http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/jsxcompressor/

Again, nice work! Looking forward to seeing what we can make of this!

oskarwiksten wrote:Hi again,

about the world-map, we recently added a <property> to the <map> element, that sets "outside"="1" for all maps that we consider to be outside. The thought for that was that all maps that have "outside"="1" should be rendered on the worldmap, which in effect would exclude all indoor maps. Maybe we'll have to tweak that for some special maps that are connected through cave systems, to consider them indoors even though they are outside (for example, "wild14_clearing.tmx").

And about Blackwater mountain, I would really like to have them on a separate worldmap and not show up on the main outdoor worldmap since they overlap with what we have planned for the road to Carn Tower. Maybe something like a larger map of a whole dungeon, but used for the whole of BWM even though they are outdoors? It might be possible to encode this in the <property> tags of each maps. Maybe one property stating which "overview map" they belong to, and one property stating the map's relative coordinates on that particular overview map, with one of the overview maps being the actual outdoors world map.

My general though for a world-map in-game is that we generate down-scaled png files that we store on the sd-card for each map that the player visits, and then create a html fragment that links all these png files together with absolute positioning. That way, we can make use of a html view that all Android devices have, which would have the benefit of giving pinch-to-zoom and all those nice features that Android users are accustomed to, without having to code it ourselves.