Curve tool

Will this ever be an implement in the actual Level Editor? When it was released for Zap! I remember it being a PC oriented tool only, which meant Mac users never could use it.

[watusimoto]

Well, I'm not planning on implementing it; however there is now a way to run lua scripts from the editor to create items that are then inserted into the editor. If there were others out there who wanted such a thing, it would be easy enough to create. Basically, the script would just need to generate the equivalent of a line from a level file that had the shape you wanted.

If anyone wants to write such a tool, I'm willing to help with getting you started in terms of how to run the script, where to put it, and so on. Note that this would also work on all platforms.

It should be pretty easy.

[karamazovapy]

I wrote a Lua script that would create curves using variables set right at the top of the file, pretty similar to a script-version of the curve tool. I kind of got bored with cleaning it up, though. It's probably mothballed on my harddrive.

Sam could probably crank out a really pretty version in about 10 minutes, though.

[watusimoto]

Just an example of how easy it would be:

  Code:

local p1x = arg[1] or 0
local p1y = arg[2] or 0
local p2x = arg[3] or 1
local p2y = arg[4] or 1

local pts = { Point(p1x, p1y), Point(p2x, p2y) }
local wallsize = 20
levelgen:addWall(wallsize, false, pts)

Copy this into a file called "line.lua" in your levels folder. In the editor, open the console by pressing "/", then type

run line.lua

(the .lua might be optional). It will create a line from (0,0) to (1,1). If you type

run line.lua 1 1 2 1

you'll get a line from (1,1) to (2,1)

So now you know how to run a script from the editor; how to pass params to it; and how to insert walls back into the editor. All you need is the geometry calculations and a little basic Lua info, which is easily available on the web.

[ZoombeR]

Will this ever be an implement in the actual Level Editor? When it was released for Zap! I remember it being a PC oriented tool only, which meant Mac users never could use it.

get darwine for mac. It will open this .exe file. I use zap curve tool alot with it.

Or just wine in general. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX.

Darwine is a somewhat outdated package thing. There are other, more modern ones, but you can also just run things in terminal like a boss.

[ZoombeR]

Or just wine in general. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX.

Darwine is a somewhat outdated package thing. There are other, more modern ones, but you can also just run things in terminal like a boss.

there's mono which can run the .NET stuff too.

I have:

Crossover
Mono
Wine

They pretty much cover everything. Bitfighter runs great in Crossover too.