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Name:	Harold "LabRat" Brown
Date Posted:	Apr 26, 2004
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What do bored programmers do when they can't sleep?

Well some of us decide to write a Map parser for Zap from the TNL package. Since there is really only one map for Zap right at the moment, that's all the Map parser reads.

So without further rambling (since it is 4:30 am and I need to go to sleep)

The parser is written in PHP and uses the GD library

EDIT:
The parser still doesn't display everything, since I'm finally sleepy I'll finish it later :)

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Frogger (Apr 26, 2004 at 11:31 GMT)

woohoo!

Gareth Davies (Apr 26, 2004 at 13:33 GMT)

I hate you, you spoilt Zap for me now i know what the level looks like... :(

;)

Ben Garney (Apr 26, 2004 at 16:02 GMT)

Edited on Apr 26, 2004 16:04 GMT

Ben Garney (Apr 26, 2004 at 16:03 GMT)

Funny thing, last night I wrote a commander map into Zap. Great minds think alike. ;)

Nice job on the script, btw. Output looks good.
Edited on Apr 26, 2004 16:05 GMT

Harold "LabRat" Brown (Apr 26, 2004 at 16:13 GMT)

Actually it started out as me figureing out how to display the map, with the intent of possibly working on a Map editor. After spending a few hours kicking SDL for not having a simple "drawLine" function I said forget it and did it in GD / PHP as a prototype environment.

Ben Garney (Apr 26, 2004 at 16:52 GMT)

A map editor, eh? You should talk to Robert Blanchet about that... I think he might be working on one, too. ;)

Harold "LabRat" Brown (Apr 26, 2004 at 17:23 GMT)

LoL then I will defer to his wisdom (since I didn't make any headway anyhow :)

Although I think I might continue with the map parser, might be a nice touch later to have the Zap server send a tickler to a webserver to show what map is playing :)

Harold "LabRat" Brown (Apr 26, 2004 at 22:18 GMT)

Little bit of an update:

Added: Flags
Added: Grid
Added: Border
Changed: Repair Pack

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