Dungeons, dungeons everywhere!

My game, Xenocell requires many unique settings where the player enters mostly procedurally generated scenes - be it an underground base owned by the player's team or an alien structure waiting to be explored from the inside.

My friend, Maxim Lyulyukin has told me they were developing a content pack - a gothic style underground dungeon brush tile set, and he's asked me to help with shaders and testing. I told him that I thought the pack was great, but using it was not easy for the customer. I thought this was just the right time for me to create an editor that would let me plan a dungeon no matter where I was, without the need to boot up TGE(A).

Enter the Dungeon Editor! (I know. Please, if you have a good suggestion for a name, let me know!)

Quick feature list:

- Written entirely in Javascript to be accessible and transparent.
- Click + drag rooms and corridors with the mouse.
- Hover over a tile to choose between tiles (ie. wall, door, wall with torch, etc..) that work as a substitute for the hovered tile
- The editor automatically knows what tiles to put where by the design of your dungeon, and it automatically rotates these tiles
- Able to work on multiple floors (experimental still, no stairs yet)
- Automatic dungeon generator - click twice, and you have a dungeon ready to be exported
- Exports torque mission script ready to be used with TGEA (TGE untested)



The editor with a randomly generated floor - see all the floors on the right

So it takes less than a minute to generate a dungeon like the one you see on the images, export into TGEA, and take the screenshots.



This is still under development, but coming along nicely.

Maxim or Vladimir will be able to tell you more about when the pack is coming out (it's close!), all I know is that the editor will be bundled, so it will make the life of those who choose to get it a lot easier.



Some features like placing spawn points and symmetry based dungeon generation are still in progress.

This editor is tailored to this specific pack, but if everything goes well, another pack is going to use a branched version of this editor. (Can I say which one? :)



Eventually, the editor aims to add further effects to tiles such as fire on torches, or export options that set the scene up with correct lighting, fog, etc...

Thanks for reading through. Any suggestions are welcome as always.