On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Enrico Kochon<ekoc...@uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote:
Hi Enrico, thanks for the input :-). > Thus, here are my 2 cents just as comments concerning the map-editor: > - if the target group of the editor are programmers, there is nothing > wrong with it. However, if you plan to release it to the average > non-programmer, the concept of different entitytypes could be to > complicated. Valid point. While I would not want to change the way things are coded, I think there are some assumptions we can make that will hide the details from users not willing to understand the inner workings: * Scenery objects are always anonymous entities. * Items are always shared entities. * Characters are always unique entities. There is another group of objects (doors, switches and containers mainly) that need to be unique too, but I guess in that case, people will just have to read up on how to make a working door. I haven't looked at that many game creation tools (mostly the Elder Scrolls Construction Set so far), but I think it won't be possible to make something simple enough to use it without consulting some documentation first. I'll try to add some helpful tooltips ... > - there are several applications which provide good samples of tag-based > filtering. Unfortunately, the most of them are webapplications. They are > not so easy to implement in a clientapplication. Keep things simple is > my advice. For instance what about a Widgets containing clickable text > as text and the filtered Objectbrowser? After a click the corresponding > text gets colored and the filtering is applied to the objectlist. I probably would have made each tag a toggle button ... but I'm not sure where in the GUI to show them and which layout to use. > Of course should the tag-categories for all objects be prebuilt if a > built-in object set is used (which I would appreciate). Yes, that's a given. Tags will basically be precomputed from the directory a map object sits in. I.e. if you have a map object "map/ground/outside/grass/grass-tile-1.xml", it'll get the tags "map", "ground", "outside" and "grass". Kai _______________________________________________ Adonthell-devel mailing list Adonthell-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/adonthell-devel
