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Levels?

by Joe Spataro · in Torque Game Builder · 07/21/2005 (9:51 am) · 8 replies

Hi,

I am building off of the shooter tutorial and so I still have just a scrolling map/layers that autopan. How can I make a full level where one map scrolls for a long time until a boss fight, where the map then just repeats until the boss is dead, then a new map with different graphics etc.?
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Torque Owner Ryan Ackley
#1
07/21/2005 (10:48 am)
That is an issue that some of us have been pondering. I am putting together (albiet slowly) a platformer demo that includes 2 levels, to illustrate the transition between levels. What I am doing now is have a .cs file that loads up all important information for a "level", kind of like a mission file in tge. There also is a level editor thats in progress, and looks good from what I've seen. I've been meaning to pull that apart and see how it ticks. There hasn't been (afaik) a whole lot of public discussion about this, meaning people are either cooking up their own solutions (which I'd like to hear a bit about) or hardcoding everything.

Torque Owner Markus Wahlgren
#2
09/08/2005 (10:31 pm)
Any updates on the Level Editor? Cause that would really come in handy for all of us I guess.

Torque Owner Ryan Ackley
#3
09/09/2005 (6:08 am)
Adam put something a level editor together:
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=32775

i havent had a chance to test it, my day job has been eating up too much time lately.

Torque Owner Adam Larson
#4
09/09/2005 (8:33 am)
GarageGames is handling the management of the level editor now. I am merely helping in its construction. I'm sure somebody, if not me, will be able to give updates soon. Yeah, there's that 'soon' word again. Sorry, that's the best I can do.

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
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#5
09/09/2005 (9:42 am)
Its hard being on either end of the "soon" comments

Torque Owner Josh Williams
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#6
09/12/2005 (1:14 am)
I doubt that a level editor will make it into the next major release of T2D, but it's definitely high on our priority list and we're teaming up with good guys like Adam to help get it cranked out as soon as humanly possible.

Torque Owner Jason McIntosh
#7
09/12/2005 (10:53 am)
Unfortunately, I doubt any generic level editor will benefit me. I'd like to suggest a level editor framework so that we can build on a basis for creating our own specialized editors. You provide the most needed interface elements and functionality (layer manipulations, layer naming, flood-filling, tile pattern-matching, stuff common to all tile editors). That's my $.02. :)

Torque Owner Ryan Ackley
#8
09/12/2005 (4:23 pm)
I asked melv about the scene editor he was working on, Josh chimed in and answered it for me:

My Question:
Quote:
(referencing the last screenshot)

sceneeditor? I know that I've heard some talk about editors, but care to divulge any details on that one melv?

josh's response:
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Ryan, T2D 1.1 will include a great new object editor... details to come soon. And yes, T2D will have a scene editor-- which combined with the object editor will be T2D's equivalent of the Torque World editor--- though the scene editor will not come out in the 1.1 update.

linkage:
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=8352