FlaME -- The Warzone 2100 Map Editor

[Per]

I have committed a change that made Warzone ignore the map's set height for features and re-calculate it instead.

[effigy]

You can install them both.
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So, in this way we can have a flaMe for 2.3 maps, and one for master?

also, does "double click to open" work for *.wz and *.fme again? IIRC in some recent version it was broken.

[Flail13]

effigy, in recent versions it was changed so that object data is stored in the user's documents, not in the installation directory, so having two installations for that reason wont work. At the moment, there's no fast way of switching between one data set and another.
For the future, I could possibly allow users to specify a list of directories to load data from, and have it prompt which one of those to load on start up.
Having two installations will be technically usable, but it's not good.
Double click to open should be working now.

[NoQ]

For the future, I could possibly allow users to specify a list of directories to load data from, and have it prompt which one of those to load on start up.

That might be a good idea since i started to make all those things (unless they will be disabled again :/)

[effigy]

Thanks flail

Personally, I like "portable" or "monolithic" software that doesn't bother with user specific directories. It seems a much cleaner approach to me to have all of a programs files under one directory ...but then again I don't have multiple user accounts on my computer

[NoQ]

Thanks flail

Personally, I like "portable" or "monolithic" software that doesn't bother with user specific directories. It seems a much cleaner approach to me to have all of a programs files under one directory ...but then again I don't have multiple user accounts on my computer

I thought about it, and the idea of not reinstalling the data when reinstalling the program seems something i actually like. Still, it might be a good idea to make FlaME look for data in several places (eg. both in program folder and in home folder).

[effigy]

You mean like this?

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[effigy]

It seems I can't use v1.20 I was upgrading from v1.14 with a "flaMe" directory in My Documents, however now v1.20 wants a ".flaMe" directory for the addition data packages, but I can't create a folder name that leads with a "." and flaMe is not creating one for me

edit: intalling 1.19 works to create the .flame directory.

[bendib]

It seems that circular is the only pattern that various aspects of flaMe (which used to create square too in 1.19) can use. It was a hell of a chore to get flaMe 1.20 installed, and it's disappointing that after all that work and frustration to get the thing installed, it doesn't have the one feature I actually care about. Going back to...1.19... >:^|

[milo christiansen]

".flaME" Windows does not allow you to name a folder with a leading dot from the shell. I ended up having to write a script to rename my folder.

[NoQ]

You mean like this?

No, i mean it just silently takes data from both places, with user data being a priority in case of conflict. Much like most linux apps look for data or configs both in /usr/share/app and ~/.app

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Couple of feature requests, Flail. If you don't mind.

1) The dropdown text is being clipped, making it confusing to see what unit, body, etc. the user is looking at in the droid design area. Any way to have the dropdown expand?

2) I'd sure love to be able to give custom units designed in the droid maker custom template and display names.

3) The usual guff of additional feature requests from me - integrated Research, Weapons, Structures, etc. editing, sans WZCK.

[effigy]

Feature Request:

When opening an existing map file, the map name should be in the title bar instead of "Unsaved Map"

[Killuminati316]

Hello, I've downloaded the newest version of flame and it said after I ran Flame, It would create a folder called ".flame" in My Documents. I ran it, and after that I looked in My Documents and didn't see the folder it was supposed to create, therefore I wasn't able to extract the .zip files to their correct location, and I couldn't load any tiles, objects, etc. Please help, thanks.

[vexed]

For what it is worth, you can create ".flame", but you need to do it in the cmd.exe window, and not from the GUI.
MS disabled it, so you can't start a filename with a . (dot).