[Discussion thread] Name 3 things you want to see in 0.7 (Page 5 of 6)

like this? it would be cool if you could change the color of the light and decide how dark the shadows are.

Yah the name tag thing is probably a bug. It would be neat if the map maker could place many different light sources around the map and edit their attributes.

Brightness/transparency

Color - light and shodow should be the same hue.  Eg Light is red, shadow is dark red.

Distance - how far does the light from the source before it starts fading to shadow.

Direction - control where the light is shining.  full light like in the video, half light, Siren

Animation - I imagine fire flicker, Siren spinning, flashing or fading in and out, swinging lights etc.

Size - how big is the light source. Eg, lamp's and clanles.

visibility - can you see the light source or not?  You might not want to show the light source of the sun but you want there to be a source to draw the shadows from. On the other hand lights, lamps, candle's could be visible little balls of light.

Broadcast are deleted because it must be client-side to be translated in the player language. The only possibility for that is to send an text ID instead of the true text and let the client choose the appropriate text corresponding to this id. In addition, the number of data to send decrease with this approach. So removing broadcast is a good idea for TeeWorlds. And keep this functionality without use it means that you support mod community, which is not what devs want.

So ask instead for a descent API for mod development in 0.7 ( good luck :-p )

Using external service is not really a solution.
The main issue about broadcast is not translation. It's only about make thing smarter.
Think Broadcast as a temporary solution.

By the way, replacing broadcast by message ID is 3 years old. Modder had plenty of time to rethink how to make message.

Mod API is not a bad idea to make consistent choices for mods.

I think the shadow should be a mix of the other ambient light sources' (that are near by) colors , if there are any other sources. if there aren't, then dark red would be more sensical. think of it this way in real life, the sun is yellow but shadows are kinda blueish or grey (so many clouds right now), not yellowish ^-^

I don't even know who spreads those lies, obviously devs DON'T hate mods, they are just not a priority over vanilla. *snip*

Please be friendly to other forum members // heinrich5991

Not sure whether you are trolling right now or what, but as you mentioned it is inaccurate, you need to provide an api key (everyone their own or all the same?) and it is strictly limited to a small amount of characters if you don't want to pay an unrealistic amount of money.

I have read OY state that he does not care for mods and reject things that would make help modes. I completely understand that vanilla is their priority. But I do not understand why the devs will completely shoot down things that would make modding easier.  Why are the devs so hostile to the community that keeps their game afloat?

I don't understand how this could be considered tolling? If the problem with the broadcasting system is that people of different languages would not have the braudcast translated in their language. wouldn't the obvious thing to do be send the message to the player, detect the language of the player and have that message translated to that language.   This was the argument given against the broadcast system at the time, so I gave a legitimate solution to the preserved problem.  I don't know how language translation APIs work all I know is that Google translate is freaking awesome. I personally do not care one way or the other whether the devs keep or discard the broadcast system. I just see a lot of modders in an uproar over the whole thing, I thought of a solution to the preserved problem and then suggested the solution.  I don't care what happenes to the system, I care that the devs are actively striping out features that modders want for one reason or another, because OY says and I quote "Won't fix, the messages are integrated into the client now - don't care about mods." Fantastic explanation for why a feature won't be added to the game.

Dude there are so many thing missing from the cartographer.

Smarter = simpler implementation, simpler code maintenance, few network usage, easier for localization.
It's totally logical to do that since teeworlds dev work on teeworlds.
I meant the old broadcast system, with plain text message from the server.

It's not about the reliability of Google Translate. It is about using it. It's neither a bad nor a good solution. It's not a solution.
Again, translation is not a real issue. In vanilla, server messages are limited. You can easily lookup plaintext server message in a table and use its translation on client side (leaving the other messages non-translated )

Personally, I would react as xush. It's like asking a minesweeper to use google translate to translate score message. (ok, it's really different. but, i think that using a third party in teeworlds run time is irrelevant.)

Google Translate is a good example for simple != smarter.
I used '=' to translate my smarter in simpler blablabla… in this case. I never said that simpler = smarter. Don't misinterpret me.

Teeworlds shouldn't be compared to minecraft… teeworlds is open source after all. Modding is and will stay easy.

Because minecraft is not open source. Modding highly depends on a unknown black box that can change on each release.

On teeworlds, the source are free to use, modifiable. The dev version is also available and part of the source is self documenting.

However, i m not sure atm if you or another tee did compare minecraft and teeworlds so nvm.

About, broadcast, we might find armuments to restore part of its functions. For admin or improving user experience in vanilla.

Mark the "deleted" features as ''deprecated' instead remove them in this version... The game have "modifications"... be good with the devs and eh... give time to adapt all to the new guideline...

sry for bad english

I personally think the map editor's color picker is more understandable than the one for skins, as each click will get you closer to the desired color and show that, even if the selected color isn't near it..idk, always thought the tee color picker was a tad clunky