Modding: Custom Tiles

So, yea, I know, we have custom tiles, but they are SO simple. You can only add some flags when map loads.
Cause of it you can't:

1. damage them
2. add breaking states
3. change breaking sounds
4. change destroying sounds
5. change building sounds
6. change collapsing sounds
7. change particles.

So actual custom tiles are nothing, you can't do anyhing with them, like you can do with stone, wood, etc.

 

You can do all of that actually..

I just started modding, so I could be wrong, but basically to change those values you have to copy some of the base files and mod them, and then have pointers to your new files instead of the base ones. It's the only way to further the hardcoding of the amount of cases that are available when changing blocks (specifically with custom block - base block interaction in mind). Yeah, it's kind of inefficient, but it's not impossible.

 

You are not right. Tiles are in engine, they are not open source. You mean fake tiles (blob tiles), which have shitty shadows, very little spaces between each other, and they eat much more recources, than a usual tile. You can't copy normal tiles (world.png)

 

Oh, in that case, yeah. Are there no commands that can be scripted to force custom sprites to behave like the in-engine ones?

 

That's the problem, you can't add any behaviors, everything that we have is:

Code:

Tile::TileFlags
    SPARE_0
    SOLID
    BACKGROUND
    LADDER
    LIGHT_PASSES
    WATER_PASSES
    FLAMMABLE
    PLATFORM
    LIGHT_SOURCE
    MIRROR
    FLIP
    ROTATE
    COLLISION
    SPARE_2
    SPARE_3
    SPARE_4

but it's kinda useless, when you can't damage them

 

I've been looking at some code, and it looks like it's possible... it writes custom variables to 'u8 customData', allowing a script to handle events that are out-of-engine. Again, I could be wrong (not a programmer in the slightest, but looking through the code).

Edit: Look at Soprano's Server. He has gold tiles that behave like in-engine tiles, and you are even able to build doors out of them (another custom sprite, among others on that server) that just point to base files to function properly. Unless I'm mistaken, those are all out-of engine blobs that CAN be hit and with scripts basically do anything afaik.

 

Dude, it's fake tile (blob). I don't want to use them, cause they eat more recources and cause of other reasons, that I said above. I made these fake tiles like 2 years ago, you can check them at "Official Fun CTF"

 

wow, god, Skinney, I love you. I think at first I had to look at hooks. x)

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 12, 2015, Original Post Date: Jun 12, 2015 ---

but wait, what can I do with them, if I don't know a tile's position?

 

Thanks. But now I noticed that tiles don't have health, is it right?

 

Oh wow, I apologize I was very, very wrong. Blobs are awful.