Anyone who has ever had to texture an entire matrix and all the tiles in it will know how much time it takes and how many lines of code it takes and how after 3 hours its still not quite right. and that tile there should be brought forwa..... Here's the answer.
A simple program to aid you in the design of a matrix.
When you run the program a 60*60 grid is prodced which can be adjusted at any time to a different size.
You have up to 8 colors to choose from to represent differnt tiles on the matrix. (may increase to an unlimited amount in future versions)
You click or use the arrowkeys to fill out the grid with the matrix design you want.
When you've finished designing select whether you want a series of unseparated numbers produced (for a map file) or wether you want it to produce a data statement (for use in dbpro editor).
E.g. a matrix of size 4*4 that was coloured totaly in red would produce a data statement like this. (red has the value 2)
DATA 2,2,2,2
DATA 2,2,2,2
DATA 2,2,2,2
DATA 2,2,2,2
lets say you had one that was all red except for the top row which has 3 green tiles would read this (green is value 3)
DATA 3,3,3,2
DATA 2,2,2,2
DATA 2,2,2,2
DATA 2,2,2,2
You then run a little routine like this to read off the data and produce the matrix you want in your game
for tt=0 to 59
for t=0 to 59
read a#
if a#=3 then tile#=1
if a#=2 then tile#=2
set matrix tile 1,t,tt,tile#
next t
next tt
update matrix 1
The file comes with its own installation wizard so you dont have to arse about with files and is only 136k to download
and it is definatly available at the following site
http://gaming.nsoptimum.co.uk/makoangel/MTDSetup.exe
With special thanks to makoangel for posting my program up as my host wont let me upload exe's.
The above is where to get the program
The below is my web site if you wana visit it
http://www.darkdayssoftware.tk
heres a 31k screen shot of the editor.
Any comments or questions to the forum on my site or here
so wada ya think
Thanks everybody.
Special thanks to Hammish McHaggis for BETA testing this program
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