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[cspotcode]

I'm rewriting the Garrison Builder in Qt.  I'm gonna write about my progress here.  I've never really done anything like a development journal before, but hopefully it'll help motivate me.

It doesn't really do anything yet, but here's a screenshot:

[Juicebox360]

This looks quite promising. What are some new features you'll be adding to it (that is, if you're planning to do more than a rewrite)?

[Agh]

I am really looking forward to this
Does this mean the compiling will be faster?

[cspotcode]

This looks quite promising. What are some new features you'll be adding to it (that is, if you're planning to do more than a rewrite)?

Qt has great image manipulation support, so it'd be cool if mappers could resize, shift, and move around parts of the map.  It would not be an image editor, it would be more of a walkmask adjuster.  So the mapper would create the basic shape in his drawing program, adjust everything in Garrison Builder so that gameplay felt right, and then go back to his drawing program to repair the damage Garrison Builder had done to the background during the adjustment process.  I think this is important, because currently the tools don't encourage mappers to focus on gameplay.

Also, I want to redo control point support to be much more powerful.  So the new editor would support that.

It'd be really, really cool if all the entities were loaded by the Builder from a zip file.  When new stuff was added to the game, mappers could instantly get access by auto-updating the zip file.  Even a non-coder developer could maintain the zip file, because it would just contain png images and text config files.

I am really looking forward to this
Does this mean the compiling will be faster?

Yes, compiling should be instant.  There's really no excuse for the current builder to compile so slowly.  It's my fault for doing it in GML.

[Corky]

Garrison Builder might work for me again now.

 

[Juicebox360]

It'd be really, really cool if all the entities were loaded by the Builder from a zip file.  When new stuff was added to the game, mappers could instantly get access by auto-updating the zip file.  Even a non-coder developer could maintain the zip file, because it would just contain png images and text config files.

Yeah, I agree that the blueprint you suggested was a neat idea. It's good to finally see it being integrated.

[cspotcode]

I'm pushing the code to Launchpad now.  I'll try to update periodically as I work.

https://code.launchpad.net/~cspotcode/gg2garrisonbuilder/garrisonBuilderQtRewrite

Programmers, please don't laugh!  I'm still learning...

[Juicebox360]

Have you received errors regarding type conversion? I don't think that cast expressions are needed, it's floor() and ceil()

[cspotcode]

Have you received errors regarding type conversion? I don't think that cast expressions are needed, it's floor() and ceil()

No, I haven't.  What part of the code are you referring to?

[Juicebox360]

Have you received errors regarding type conversion? I don't think that cast expressions are needed, it's floor() and ceil()

No, I haven't.  What part of the code are you referring to?

One second. I need to restart my computer since I changed the directory structure

It's at the part where it draws the grid, if I recall.

EDIT: urgh, my SSH keys won't work, one second please.

[Juicebox360]

Sorry for the alarm. I'm an idiot that I didn't realize that it was merely a warning.

It's running now. I like it.

[cspotcode]

It's ok, you made me realize I put some moc_* files in the repository accidentally.  They shouldn't be there since they're created by Qt's meta object compiler at compile time.

[NAGN]

Sorry for the horrid necrobump, but whatever happend to this project?

[cspotcode]

It's not dead, just very slow going.  School and life and all keep me busy doing stuff that I don't like to do.

And uhh... yeah, that's about it.

[favicon guru]

Is Launchpad for debuggers exclusively?