New Map Format - Githubissues

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

type_patch (an actual patch, not a request for one) | by NoQ

This is a very rough proof-of-concept! Do not push it yet. I'm simply trying to figure out if i'm going in the right direction, or if problems that i encounter should be solved differently.

Obvious to-do for myself:

Implement a routine saving game.json and mission.json. This patch currently breaks savegames.

To-do for discussion:

Think of something for the radar. Now arizona palette is used for both radar and map preview, and radar gets screwed. My best idea so far is to rely upon the map editor provide arbitrary custom png textures for both preview and radar, which would probably be cool.
Properly wipe the mipmap code. I reduced mipmap depth to 1, but the code just needs to be removed, i guess, because it's completely useless with the new terrain renderer anyway.
If anybody has a good plan for refactoring the whole loading procedure, or deprecating addon.lev, or something like that, it'd be great if it gets shared now. Because, damn, my eyes, that was ugly to look at, and i'm making it even uglier.

Issue migrated from trac:4291 at 2022-04-16 11:50:13 -0700

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ uploaded file 0001-TEMP.patch (28.3 KiB)

The first version.

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ commented

http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/NewMapFormat - specification, motivation, whatever.

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

vexed changed blocking which not transferred by tractive

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vexed changed blockedby which not transferred by tractive

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

vexed commented

Just adding myself to this ticket. :)

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ uploaded file 0001-TEMP2.patch (32.9 KiB)

The second part of the patch.

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ uploaded file 4c-Mansion.wz (107.9 KiB)

A new-style map with custom decal textures, the second version.

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ uploaded file 6c-Mirage-1-02.wz (40.5 KiB)

A new-style map with mixed ground textures, the second version.

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ uploaded file 5c-Starfish-1-01.wz (114.8 KiB)

A new-style map with custom skybox, the second version.

wzdev-ci commented 9 years ago

NoQ commented

The second patch relies on both the first patch and the patch in #4292 (the fog colour). I guess i'd better make a branch and do work there.

The following was done:

Finally implement and test various optional tileset features unrelated to terrain:
- Custom sky. This includes sky texture, wind, scale, weather, fog. All of these are now determined by the tileset and varies from map to map.
- TODO: Sun position?
- Texture replacements. For example, the base game uses different base structure textures on different tilesets. The map is allowed to replace any texture with any texture via a simple json map. In particular, this also works for water textures, so a separate field for water textures was removed from tileset.json.
Finally thought-through the minimap stuff:
- Map preview is now standard for all custom maps: white ground, red cliffs, blue water. This ensures that map authors don't cheat by eg. masking oil drum previews with terrain colors.
- Radar colors, on the contrary, are tileset-defined. For the new-style maps, radar is drawn based on tile-types (passability) rather than textures. It is a lot easier to maintain by the tileset makers, and also makes more sense. Also, we no longer have sensible tile texture numbers, on which we used to rely.
Tileset information (tileset.json as-is) is now exposed to JavaScript API in a read-only manner. Sky and texture replacement, as decsribed above, is implemented via rules.js. Radar color algorithms are hardcoded though.
A bit of minor refactoring was done. Eg., current tileset used to be stored and retrieved in various manners, now it's done through a single enum.

TODO: Game saving. Once i implement the json writer function for the savegames, i guess i'm done with a working support for the new map format. The format itself is, i guess, settled down by now, as all the features i wanted are already supported, or may be delayed for later without breaking stuff. Wiki specs were updated accordingly.

wzdev-ci commented 8 years ago

NoQ uploaded file 0001-TEMP3.patch (28.7 KiB)

The third part of the patch.

wzdev-ci commented 8 years ago

NoQ commented

Saving the game mostly works now, only a few bugs remain:

Fog colour is pink after save-load.
Texture replacement with map-specific textures degrades performance, because absolute paths and cache.

Warzone2100 / old-trac-import

New Map Format #4291