2d map editing removed!!!!!

[lav_coyote25]

no please. ;D

it is needed to do the gate way placement...

# [Thu 03:50:44pm] per * r1501 /trunk/ (19 files in 2 dirs):
# [Thu 03:50:44pm] Remove the unused 2D map editing code. We are never going there... Notice
# [Thu 03:50:44pm] that files are removed, so rerun your build systems!

[DevUrandom]

You place gateways ingame?
And I could bet that Per did not remove what was accessible somehow. (Means: The functions of edit2d were probably used nowhere.)

[lav_coyote25]

i dunno... is it possible?    ;D

[Per]

In-game 2D map editing was apparently removed long before the original release, but the code for it was (in a very non-functional form) still preserved inside the sources. I do not know when they removed it, but if I were a betting man, I would bet it was before they made the external map editor. In any case, I do not quite see why you need a 2D map editor in the first place. What it is you cannot edit properly within a 3D map editor?

It would have been a gigantic effort to have salvaged the original in-game 2D map editor, and I stopped believing it was worth the effort, or that it could teach us anything toward making a better in-game 3D map editor.

How do you place gateways in the external editor? I've never used it.

[lav_coyote25]

read about the 3d and 2d screens here - and scroll down to the placement of gateways.


you can do almost all in the 3d screen - but not the placing of gateways.   gateways need to be anywhere from 2 to 6 tiles in length - placed in positions that take advantage of the terrain.  on flat maps - put a cross of at least 6 tiles per arm... it works.

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but i see now that the in game version of the editor isnt a particularly good idea....  the standalone version ( even at the state it is in ) is a much better way to design maps.

//DevU: Used fixed with font.