[TeeUniverse] Devlog (Page 11 of 12)

Devlog: I'm implementing a new type of map layer: "Object Layer". An object is a line or a polygon, with a style attached to it. I hope this layer will encourage people to make less square based maps. Of course the client-side collision is not compatible with such elements, but for decoration and server-side collision (like death area or freeze area), it's really good.
Since objects are made of quads, the object layer can be converted in the vanilla map format

Bezier curves and line thickness (the bottom right part is a repeated texture with a curved line for the border):

I want to do it, but since it will break the compatibility, it's postponed until there is enough players that use the TeeUniverse client.

Yeah, I am sure that 90% of the end-users use windows!

Eh, it's a good thing to belong to the 10% *even more sorry for even more off-topic*

I'm currently trying to compile it on Windows. It's painful.

Devlog: Material creation implemented. You can set a texture to fill the part inside the polygon, and a sprite to skin the edges of the polygon. Here is a screenshot of a block made using one polygon + 2 lines for decoration. If the polygon is well placed, the collision stay coherent

What you see:

What are the collision tiles:

The material is made of two images:

Edit: If you want something more teeish

Devlog: The material editor is a bit more advanced now. It's now possible to do a lot of different style for various purpose. Here is a list of styles made with it, applied each time on the same surface (a disk):

In the editor, you can define as many layers as you want. For example, the string with lamps is made of 3 layers. The first one don't use a texture and is stretched along the line, the second and the third ones use a sprite aligned to the world (instead of the line).

In addition, I've reworked a little the toolbar to make icons more visible and readable:

Thanks

Yes!!! I agree with u 100%

Devlog: Object layers are now automatically converted into quad layers during map export. Here is the result (vanilla client):

The background is made of one polygon + an appropriate material using vanilla images. I've also added a quad layer to add some non aligned unhookable tiles. It's just for decoration, but such effects could be used to break the feeling of playing in a big grid. This is something that can be done also with vanilla editor, but it's painful because you have to found manually the texture coordinates and resize the quad in a complex way.

Yes, technically, the client don't clamp quads during rendering. So if you create 1 billions of quads you will feel the difference In the above test, the frame-rate was not affected. Concerning the storage, quads are nothing in comparison of an image, so I don't think we can say that it's an issue.

In fact, it's a little bit more difficult to analyze. The screen try to display around 1200 quads per tile layer (because the rest is clamped). In the above example, where the object is 2x bigger than the screen, I use 900 quads (and it's really not optimized: ~800 for the border and ~100 for the inner part). Of course, it's not a good solution to replace all tiles by this. But it's still a good solution, and no so horrible in term of number of quads, to add decorations.

There is multiple ways to optimize this: improve the tessellation algorithm of the polygon and edges, remove invisible quads during export, add some quality parameter attached to the object...

Edit: I've forget to mention: the sprite used for this material is a small square (because I've took the vanilla one). So I need to split a lot the line to repeat the sprite along the line. Using a better image/sprite could decrease a lot the number of quads too.

TeeUniverse 0.2.0 is available

There is still a lot of bugs, in particular with materials, but to create maps just with tiles and quads, it's fine

Linux 32-bit binaries
Linux 64-bit binaries
Windows 32-bit binaries

Added
- Object layers in maps
- Materials
- Tool to create sprite from images
- Tools to create an object and edit its vertices
- Mirror buttons for tile layers
- Export maps to the InfClass format
- Ctrl+Left button to move the camera in the map
- Shortcuts to flip and rotate the stamp selection
- Text selection with copy/paste
- Automatic scrolling during text editing
- Statusbar to display map coordinates
- Confirmation dialog during saving
- Ctrl+S to save the current package
- Import/Export in PTU map format
- Option to align entities with on the grid
- Camera position and zoom saved in the package
- Settings in map view
- Game layer of DDNet maps support

Changed
- Bigger toolbar in the view
- New icons for tools in the view
- Better appearence for focused boxes
- Better appearence for separators

Removed
- Import/Export in the old InfClass map format

Fixed
- Fix non-loaded images after deletion of an image
- Fix unusable crop tool for map layers (the tool is now disabled for layers)
- Fix incoherent behaviour for sliders
- Fix visible gui_editor package in the asset selector
- Fix wrong clipping values for exported maps
- Fix internal images exported as external
- Fix env_snow package