KAG Map Editor Developement

Yes, that's the name of my map editor.

 

I think the main purpose of my map making tool is for those who don't know how to already use paint editors, or don't want to make swatches and label them. It gives you a visual representation of exactly what you are putting down, and what it will look like. I'm working on adding features that will improve it's standing over the existing tools (paint editors) as for The KAG map format the reason that I haven't done much work on it is because it is going to be subject to change in the final release of kag. I talk to Geti on a fairly regular basis, and on a few occasions I've asked him about reading the kag map format. It honestly wont be that hard to read, I'll probably make a script to spit into a text file. But basically the way it works is there are values from 1-256 represented through enums. once you know all the enums you're done. Theres a few more things such as entities like zombies, water, sacks ect. but that can easily be figured out if I just make a map with everything on it then put it through the above mentioned script.
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regarding the usefulness of my editor vs the usefulness of gimp, I think that my editor can be faster in some cases. Considering the amount of work that goes into the swatches and remembering which color is which if you don't have a reference up. I just think it means you have to put less thought into what you are doing, because you can see exactly what you are doing. You can tell if something wont work or if it will look bad. In short it allows you to focus more on the map making portion rather than the not screwing up what block your placing portion.

 

No I haven't heard anything about documentation, but the problem is that you can't just make a text file with the proper enum names and such and then save it as .kag The .kag is a binary file. So you would need a program to write and read binary but show it to you in unicode. If you could post a .kag map here with a bunch of different stuff I could try and read it tonight and post the results back, say in about an hour.

 

1) how big is the map your opening.
2) sorry I haven't finished culling.

 

Yea, it handles maps the size of duel and duel2 pretty perfectly, once you get maps about the size of a 20 person ctf that's when it starts to go down hill. I can hopefully do some stuff to fix all that though.

 

uhm, did you completely reinstall, like remove it then try reinstalling it. Or installing it to a different place. I got that air two days ago, Because I made an update from 2.3 to 2.4 which fixed a bug with colors that didn't correspond to any blocks. But It only could have happened during a period of 30 minutes or so when the name for the file was incorrect. If that happens then install it to a new location.

What OS are you running?

 

Yea, if the launcher isn't responding that just means its updating. I never put in any downloading bar or anything for the updater. Because I was rushing when I was trying to get it released. So if it doesn't respond just let it do it's thing for a few minutes. If you stop it it will only have a partial .exe for the map editor and so then it will crash the second you try to start it. it will also think you have the correct version. so delete version.txt and nversion.txt

 

define a blank screen, and if you read the post above yours that might solve your problem. ;)
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Also I'm going to just officially announce this: My C++ KAG Map Editor has reached the end of it's development cycle, I'm no longer going to be producing updates for it. However I'm working on a different project for KAG that involves a map editor. ;) You can still use this thread to ask for help with trouble shooting. I'll probably also post a link to the source code soon if ya'll want to look at that.