Tile based map builder

[ar]

This is for the kirupa addicts who know and understand tile based games and other things.

From all of that coding that you have to do to make a game, much less a small level, I'm trying to find or make an easy way out. Is there a way to make an swf so that when it opens, it looks like a little grid with a menu on the side. In that menu, there are different terrain things that you could choose from. You pick a terrain or item, or anything else, then you simply click on a little box in the build area, and you make a level. Once you are done, you click generate, and it makes an action script file with all of the coding and everything is done for you.

I know that there is a way to make that, but I need help with it. I really don't know where to start that. Could anyone help out






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[ahmed]

Well, your questions is quite general really. Exactly what component of the above problem are you struggling with? (tile-base worlds, setting the kind of terrain, generating the user's setting...?)

[ar]

I'm just stepping into tile based games, and I wanted to know a way to make a tile based map generator to easen the load of coding everything step by step, and so others could just use it and make games.






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[frost_oni]

this was done by tonypa. i believe it's what you're looking for. i googled it but couldn't find it; now there's a copy on kirupa. :thumb:

[ar]

Thanks. That will help a lot. I'm going to try and make that into a very useful thing. You know rgp maker, well, I'm going to try and make a flash version. It's going to be hard, but I'm willing to give it a shot.






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[Templarian]

Im building that right now!!! lol VB and Flash mix.
Its for Little Game (just have to finish some more of the engine before i can make the rest of Construction Set).
Oh and also i should remind you that the engine is much harder than you may think. It takes alot of time to get the code down right so that it is general enough so that you do not have to change the swf in anyway. (i didnt have the time to do this so mines build off of about 9 .as files, and publish the game again. But this editor is just for me for the time being so it doesn't have to be totatlly idiot proof like yours will have to be).
Good luck.


//edit.... It works it can be done becuase no one will read this just let it be know it can be done though a text file. The code took a bit to write but its possable.