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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 18th Dec 2003 18:41 Edited at: 26th Dec 2003 14:14
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Here are two shots of the open-source Matrix Editor I've made, it saves to a special format (usually 20kb each file) that contains all information that my game DarkTimes need to create a world, place units and texture them.

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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 19th Dec 2003 14:46 Edited at: 26th Dec 2003 14:14
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Ive made v1.2 now, it can make hills and equalize the matrix.
Btw, I've optimized the program now, and notice the FPS difference, 20 FPS!


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Looking fantastic. Your progress in your project have been astounding.

"Power, precision, and don't forget about speed. If you practice everyday with these things in mind... you begin to develope A FIGHTING MODE." - Fist of Legend (Jet Li)
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Ok, v1.3 is done, it has mouse support now, so making a matrix is easier than before


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Looks good, only your trees look like cardboard cut-outs.

To make them look really cool, make a trunk and use 3 or four cones, or rather cones with the circle missing from the base, and put them from top to bottom (of the trunk) going from small to big. Texture them with a semi-transparent leaves texture just a load of blobs on a transparent background, set the texture properties to not draw the black background so its transparent and there you go.

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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 22:15 Edited at: 26th Dec 2003 14:15
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Okay, here's a screenshot of version 1.5

The mapfiles are still 20/21kb and store everything!

New:
-Water
-Lightning (sun, etc)
-Smaller Mapfiles


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its looking great! i've got a suggestion though, try and implement texture blending so the textures don't contrast so much


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Yeah. If you could do that, that would be utterly fantastic.

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wow, this is looking good. I really want to try this !!!!!

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Ok, its allmost finished, I still need to figure out how to blend textures

Ive renamed the editor, check the menu screen






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DarkWorld Editor is about to be released (on 31 december)

Here's a screenie of the public version, with GUI (Ive worked HARD on that! )

All I need to do now is texture blending




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looking great! if you work out how to do texture blending please tell me!


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Okay ive made some progress with texture blending, I will upload a screenie when i've finished it. (Btw, the blending technique I use is 0% quality loss and 100% blending )


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nice one mate! can't wait to see the screenie, this editor is gonna be amazing. btw are you making it in dbc or dbp?


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My GOD! how the crap did you do that! were can I dounloud it. you shold make it be able to veiw the map as code. You could make $$ on this!

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You mean the texture blending? Its simple, grab the textures from a matrix bmp, and blend them in all possible ways (4 different textures requires a ~1200x~1000 bitmap/jpeg)

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here's a screenie with the new updated GUI!

If you want to make a matrix for a racegame, then the N and M button may be usefull, they make slopes (depending with one you've selected)



Here's a list of options:
A - Raise Height of a single point
C - Crater
E - Equalize
F - Fill
G - Remove an object
H - Hill / Mountain
K - Piramid Up
L - Piramid Down
M - Slope
N - Slope
P - Place Object
R - Randomise (Smooth Hills)
S - Raise 4 points (tile)
T - Texture Tile
U - River
V - Valley
W - WireFrame On/Off
X - Lower 4 points (tile)
Y - Lake
Z - Lower point


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Could you add hotspots? (they ae called something like that)

This looks great!

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Hotspots and waypoints are supported, you can store unlimited amounts of them in a MVS file.

Btw, ive made a little compression for the MVS file, its now 12KB (0 objects, 0 hotspots and 0 waypoints) the size will never go beyond 1MB, even in a rich decorated map.


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Btw, you can use the minimap to move around. In last screenshot you can see a black square with a white dot on it, thats the minimap


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cool!

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can i dounloud it? oh ya I meant the entire thing! were you very bored one day got high on suger and did this . I don't know any code at all almost.

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hehe, any screens of texture blending yet? i'm just wondering exactly how you did it

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thats abit worrying really, as some graphics cards won't be able to handle an image that large, you may have to scale down the image after getting the blending done.


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Posted: 24th Dec 2003 20:03 Edited at: 24th Dec 2003 20:08
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If you got any questions about the matrix editor, then go to my forums http://adpro.proboards19.com/index.cgi
Guests are allowed to post/reply :-Y

I'm making a website too, it's allmost finished
Have Fun!

Btw, if you think "Why should I use this editor?" then come back to this topic in 5 days, im working on a racegame that uses the MVS matrix data file. Look at a pre-beta screenie:


And here's the full car:



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Looks pretty sweet Emperor Baal. I'll keep my eye on this.



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