more attributes

[OddChild]

It would be nice if it were possible to create "custom attributes" in the map.

That way you could have more than just "5" but be able to create others.

Just using the premade mats that you have, then select a color via a color applet.

[Guilect]

on the to do list

[Guilect]

I have added more attributes.
You now have 16.
That's more than three times the number before.
WOW.

But seriously, I did think about making the attributes open ended, rather than a fixed number. But I could see that it would be too easy for new programmers to get it wrong. Assigning the same value to two different attributes and the like.

So, now everything is nice and fixed and orderly.
Plus, I am willing to bet that these are enough attributes to use in the tilemap editor for the vast majority of people and the vast majority of games.

I will start work on dynamic map building soon.
In there I would imagine that you could have 'infinite' attribute values.

Cheers.

[u9]

uh.. infinite sounds like many But will it still fit with the map file-format or is it possible to expand the format?

Could you post a small/tiny description of the map format so i can fiddle a bit myself? (without studying and deciphering it for hours)

[Guilect]

That is why infinite is in quotes.
It will fit with existing map file format.
Map file format could be expanded but this would break backwards compatibility.

Here is the map file format:

number of tile Rows in the map as integer
number of tile columns in the map as integer
length of Tilesetname as integer
Tilesetname as string
number of tiles in the x-axis of the TileSet as integer
number of tiles in the y-axis of the TileSet as integer
transparent color as long
tile width as integer


next is the tilemap data represented as the tile index number in the tileset.
as integer

next is the tilemap attribute data as integer