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I was thinking about the floor/ceiling. It seems in your demo that the canvas erases with solid black. Would it be easy to erase that with a transparent color? That way, one could add a new canvas underneath and add some mode 7 code to give a cool ceiling affect (or maybe you'll figure out a way to do it all in one canvas, that would probably be better). If not, at least one could change the color of the ceiling / floor.

Jagmaster wrote:

lcl wrote:

Jagmaster wrote:Sabre is such a good acronym btw

That's good to hear, you don't know how stressed I was about whether it was good or not..

Why wouldn't it be? there are so many cool things associated with sabres!

Jagmaster wrote:You or someone should make a game called Sabre with the Sabre engine. Some kind of dungeon crawler.

Jagmaster wrote:I was thinking about the floor/ceiling. It seems in your demo that the canvas erases with solid black. Would it be easy to erase that with a transparent color? That way, one could add a new canvas underneath and add some mode 7 code to give a cool ceiling affect (or maybe you'll figure out a way to do it all in one canvas, that would probably be better). If not, at least one could change the color of the ceiling / floor.

SABRE World Editor progress updates - (newest update first):

-----08.01.2015-----

• Smooth rendering of the blocks drawn on the grid, the editor won't start lagging when you draw bigger maps
• Colors represent different textures, later on you'll be able to modify the colors, add new colors and tag the colors with a texture name so that you'll always know what texture each color means.
• For adding new colors, I've programmed a color selector that uses HSV (or HSB, depends on what you want to call it) color system. That is because normal RGB system makes it kinda difficult to find a specific color. But don't worry, you'll also be able to use the normal RGB colors
• Bresenham's line drawing algorithm is now implemented for placing blocks in straight lines
• A middle-point ellipse algorithm is implemented for placing blocks in ellipse-like formations (this one still needs some adjustment, but already works basically)
• The editor has an automatic system checking for errors in the level structure, and it warns you for example if the player spawn point is placed inside a wall, or if the level edges have a "leak", i.e. the walls don't form a closed shape, which is a problem because it would allow the player to walk outside of the map array causing undefined behavior, most likely crashing the game. But yeah, the editor won't allow you to make mistakes like that. In case you're interested, the piece of code that checks this utilizes an algorithm similar to a recursive flood fill
• The level testing in 3D works, too
• A video about these updates:
  

-----31.05.2014-----

• The editor project has been rebooted due to bad coding of the first version.
• This means that all features the editor had have to be recoded to fit to the new editor, so there's quite a lot work to be done for getting back to the same level with the new editor where I was with the old one. However, this time the editor will be a lot nicer to use and it will support zooming in and out.
• The new editor will also be easily usable in any resolution you wish. All you will have to do to set the resolution to you liking is to change the project's resolution from the Game Editor's Config -> Game Properties -> Game resolution.
• Below is a screenshot of the new editor at it's current stage. The GUI is just for testing and may be completely different in the final version.
  
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The old, cancelled World Editor:
-----24.03.2013-----

• Converting the 2D map to 3D world now works without issues.
• Made a video showing the current stage of the level editor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oz9D3nae4
  
  -----20.03.2013-----
• I've begun testing the 2D overview to 3D rendering and it works at some stage.
• Also worked on making the world dimensions dynamic. Works ok now. This means that the editor will be able to create any size levels/worlds.

RippeR7420 wrote:WOW. This is ridiculously awesome! Reminds of the early Elder Scrolls games!

Keep up the great work!

moonforge wrote:I don't think adding enemies is possible in a 3D game with gE. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's any way to rotate the actors like that just yet.

moonforge wrote:Okay, you definetly get a +1 for this. If you get the level editor fully working, I will be jumping for joy! I'm hoping for a possibility of the common gE user making 3D games. I know that's looking a bit into the future, but it would be pretty incredible.

Jagmaster wrote:The map editor looks pretty neat. And those drawing functions will make map editing pretty efficient (especially with huge maps).
So if I understand correctly, each tile in the map file is projected on all four sides of a cube? What will be the maximum map size?