[TeeUniverse] Devlog (Page 9 of 12)

First thing that I thought was I wanted is to know what all the new tabs and buttons do. But like vanilla Teeworlds nothing have tool hints. Don't know how hard this would be but it would be nice to mouse over tabs and buttons to find out what they are or do.

When Moving the Eye on ShotgunAttack and others you can move the eye out of bounds and it turns red and the tee goes back to home position. What is the purpose of this?

I will play around with it some more and let you know what I think of the rest of the Assets Editor.

devlog: The skin system is now working. I've also started to implement Teeworlds 0.6 compatibility on the server side. It works (0.6, 0.7 and ModAPi clients can play together), but I've a lag issue due to some strange bug Technically, the compatibility rely on the multi-snapshot system. Each entity must implement Snap07ModAPI(), Snap07() and Snap06() functions to describe how an object should be represented for each client. For the connexion part, the server is registered by the masterserver two times: one with the 0.7 protocol and one with the 0.6 protocol. Each protocol works on it's own port (by default, 8303 and 8304). Of course, clients that use 0.6 client are vulnerable to spoofing, but since the compatibility with 0.6 is optional, I don't think it's a problem.

I've decided to change the name of "ModAPI" to "TeeUniverses" because ModAPI is more a fork than an API. ModAPI can support a lot of graphical changes that can break easly the "teeish" style. Of course, it's still possible to do teeish things with ModAPI, but it's just a subset of what can offer the asset editor.
A "Universe" can be view as a list of gametypes, an asset file and a set of guidelines. TeeWorlds 0.6, TeeWorlds 0.7, DDNet and InfClass will be the first universes available in ModAPI. The server list will use some kind of tabs to separate each universe. That way, it will be easier to keep things sorted and "pure". A "Dark Universe" that contains all remaining servers will be also available. For example, Ninslash and MineTee could be 2 new universes in ModAPI.

I think I've answered your question

devlog:

• Revamped assets editor

• vanilla maps can be loaded in the editor and tile layers can be edited

I've also adopted a particular terminology for assets pacakge. There is 4 types of packages: universe, world, land and skins.
The "universe" package is loaded when the user start the program or when the user try to join a server from a different universe.
The "world" package is loaded when you jion a server (it's the old "mod" file from the early version of ModAPI)
The "land" package is loaded when the map change
All "skin" packages are loaded when the client start and contains what you put in the skin folder.

The main problem here is that you will get horrible skins (tee based on photos of Trump, or tee with dicks) as well as unfair skin (transparent)

I don't understand this part. Universe, world and land package can contains the same type of assets. The only difference is when you load them. You can even store a map in the universe package if you want, so it will be loaded when the client start (it's a wrong practice, however).

devlog:

I try to make the map editor as complete as possible. The goal is that anything that can be done in the vanilla editor must be possible also with the assets editor, but in a more intuitive way. That way, even if nobody use TeeUniverses, at least, I hope the map editor will be appreciated

General improvement

• Partial undo/redo feature

• Improved GUI

Quad editing
I've added 3 tools for quad manipulation:

• The "transform" tool that allows you to move, rotate and scale a quad. Just click on a quad (I check transparency) and drag the quad. You can also rotate it using the gizmo at the corner. If you click again on the quad, you switch to the scaling mode (like in InkScape).
  

• The "edit" tool that allows you to move independently each vertex of the quad.
  

• The "stamp" tool that allows you create and copy quads. It works like tiles: a right click open a palette from witch you can select a part of the texture. Once selected, you can create a quad using left click. Flip and rotate option are also available.
  

In addition, quad animation is now simpler: just use the "new frame" tool in the time line to create key frames, and the envelope will be automatically created. Then, take the "transform" tool, check the "frame transform" option and move your
quad as you want.

I continue the work on the GUI part. Now, it start to be mature enough to be used in the game itself, and not only the assets editor. Progressively, I will replace the old GUI system by the new. There is several interesting point with the new GUI system: it's faster to render text, it support more languages (CJK, arabic, ...), it can be scaled as you want and it support IME. Here is a first trial of implementing the general menu of the game:

The same, but in Arabic (I've used Google Translate to make it, because it's just a test ). Please note that the menu is automatically reversed in this case, because Arabic is written from right to left

And the same menu again, but in Japanese and Chinese, with different scale

Edit: One another interesting point of this system is that all styles are defined in the assets editor as well. So it's easy to customize the menu (colors, margins, boxes, ...). The idea is that, like with NetGUI, a server will be able to simulate a interface to compatible clients, using default or custom styles. You can figure out how the menu can be customized by just compare the difference between the assets editor and the game menu. Both use the same system, but with differents "Gui assets".

I think that I need to implement something like that anyway to display the list of flags and the list of skins. An "icon view" is a layout where you fill the horizontal direction first, then the vertical one, so maybe it could be applied to menu also. I keep this in mine because it could be an interesting feature to have such responsive menu

That's wonderful, thank a lot. I will integrate it soon. The fire may change, but anyway, in the final version, I will use particle effect instead to animate it a little

In these animations can you create an object to crop or mask out another object? I have an idea on how you can make planets look as though they are rotating seen below. if you take an image of the earth double it, take a circle to mask the image with and then move the image of the earth you can create a nice effect. Just add a shadow layer and this would look great.

If you could do this I could make some cool textures that you could make look like planets rotating.

I think label above the universes would read better if it said "Choose a universe to play in". I know that it technically should have an "an" before universe but it just does not sound right.

Yah that is what I was saying. In the image he posted the label says "Choose an universe to play in" and I am suggesting that the label read "Choose a universe to play in".

I guess I was imagining these spinning planets in the background not the menu system. Like if you were to stick around on this menu for a while and not select anything you would see some planets spinning off in the distance. A static image would look better for the menu items.