G.T.A.2 Map Editor

[Carver413]

very nicely done, love the music

[hwnd]

Thanks. I thought that people will say "remove the music". But i think silent videos are not very good.
Next vid hopefully shows more stuff and is longer.

[hwnd]

Just posting this as log.

About these 4 slopes, actually they are just are copy of one slope of same type. Just with different rotations.
It's tricky because they can have different shape, if slope has LID face then it has one shape, if it doesn't have LID then it has second shape or form.
I completed one slope, now i will just mathematically rotate it (thanks to nxPascal great and neat code again) but rendering of these slopes is also tricky, including picking. I saw that when messing with these 4 slopes i messed up drawing of some faces for other slopes.
The block (or slope) drawing code tries to be general for all slopes. But if there is bad boolean logic, it messes up other faces. The code is also pretty messy atm. I must rewrite it. The whole logic is there just few boolean functions returning me "true" or "false" and some logical boolean ops like "and "or" "not".
It's very boring stuff to work on, but i must fix this asap. How the map is rendered and how the picking works depends on this stuff.

Now i gtg to work.

Bye.

[User137]

You didn't post about the boolean logics as code But you can msg me in Skype/MSN later if want to.

[hwnd]

The logic is pretty tricky there. It's hard to figure out things if code is badly formatted and contains lot's of commented out lines of code from debug time. In my case this quickly builds up and i have source where most of the space is wasted by commented out lines. So i started to rewriting this thingy and that's the reason why i wanted to init nxPascal with button (actually menu item later). So i can slowly move on with GUI. And at the same time continue with rendering part.

And that initializing stuff stopped me. I will try to make this work first. I will let you know how it goes.

Of course im not rewriting this from 0 again, it's just i wanted to move on with GUI and move the existing code to this fresh GUI and at the same time cleanup and debug my code.

Also from the video above it's possible to see that flat (transparent) faces bug, graffiti on the walls, Z fighting (flickering). Not a big problem but just looks bad for eyes. Nothing else.
I have to add some very small value to flat vertices, like 0.001 or 0.01 or something like that.

[hwnd]

Little log again.

I worked on the editor GUI and added many things and debugged at the same time.
I added the docking tiles panel where the tiles will be drawn later (on the grid) and some tile info (like small selected tile preview). For docking panel i used old but working component DockPanel from http://www.torry.net/pages.php?s=79

(DockPanel is a component which was originally created for the open perl IDE. This release has been modified to be substantially easier to use, requiring virtually no code to actually impliment it, and a few new features including tabposition, and Tabtype (Icon or strictly text). This produces a docking style similiar to that which is seen in Delphi, and Homesite.)

Does it's job very well and it's very easy to get up and running. Whats even better, it saves it's positions. I don't have to do anything. Also made the menu items to show and hide the side panels, including tiles panel. Made the shortcuts to work.
Messed with FormShortCut handler to handle any shortcuts or things except the 4 arrow keys. I will handle these by my own:

procedure TfrmMain.FormShortCut(var Msg: TWMKey; var Handled: Boolean);
var Key: Word;
begin

  if MenuToolbar.IsShortCut(Msg) then
  begin
    Handled := True;
  end;

  Key := Msg.CharCode;
  
  //We handle arrow keys by our own
  if Key in [37..40] then
    Handled := False
  else
    Handled := True;
end;

I need this so that arrow keys will not mess with components on the form like some Listboxes or buttons, in old versions of editor i had this problem. Arrow keys were messing up everything.
This handles the issue for me.
Also i figured out why nxPascal didn't receive a Key values in GameLoop. That was that shortcut thingy again.
Now it works and i can move my camera movement to gameloop now.


That's it for now. I must wake up early so i will go to sleep.

[hwnd]

I was surfing whole day on he net and found a good tutorial how to make dynamic and more than 8 lights with opengl.
I downloaded the example, messed around with it alot to understand what he is doing.
He used simple .obj model for lighting effect but i slowly added my own test vertex coords from map editor and i got it working with my vertices. The results look very very promising for me, im very happy with results so far.

I believe i can show lights like these in my editor very soon:
http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/683/lights2w.png
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1940/edtrlights.png