kay thanks again

Good work! May I give a suggestion? Make a base for the arrows also, for us to see if the model is really parallel to the ground, like in this pic: http://img24.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc207&image=c48_Editor4.jpg

Hmm yes okay I'll implement such a base

I have another idea. Dan suggested something like this a while back
http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/sho...true#Post476174

I was thinking it can be done like Paint Shop Pro tubes? Say you create a scene with some rubble -broken bricks- you can create 9 mdl of broken bricks, each a little different and rotated etc. When you finish your level you can go in and 'spray' or 'paint' these mdl's around by a broken wall for example and it would randomly insert any one of these models in this group on the floor. You could also say make sprites or models of pieces of broken glass and spray a few beneath a borken window, or grass sprites and spray/paint a few in a sidewalk crack to have them auto placed.

This idea from bupaje is great but I would suggest following to make it more easy for TripleX:

It don't have to be a paint function. It could be a simple dialog where you enter the entity (or maybe a list of entities), a radius for a circular range, the number of entities and some ramdomize parameters, press enter and the function places randomly some entities.

That could be more easy to implement.

wie wird das ganze denn funktionieren?

muss man das tool wie ein plugin im spiel einbauen oder
muss man die map machen und sie dann abspeichern?

sicher muss man sein level erst laden,
kann es dann editieren und dann abspeichern oder?

das wird sicher voll hammer wenn man alles so bequem ingame verändern kann....

hab ich richtig verstanden das du den EP-editor mit dem Map-Editor "verschmälzen" lassen willst?

bin mal gespannt wann du damit fertig wirst (ich hoffe noch dieses jahr ^^)

Hat der Editor schon einen namen? Easy-Map? *g*

The first screens of the Entity Creating menue. These shots are absolutly WIP shots, the menue design will be overworked completly (for allowing multiple entity selection -> see idea of utillia and frank above).

You can say the map editor where your model files are (maybe over a windows dialog box..atm over a normal inkey box). Now the Editor show you all Files out of this directory. If you click at one you can see a preview in a view below (of course you can rotate/zoom in this view). Over a double click (you can also "pull" the entitiy in your level) the entity is created.



The search function works too



The Entity Navigator is also finished but not showable (the menue design is too bad at the moment )

have a nice day
TripleX

EDIT: Because the problem, where the entities are created. The entities are created at the camera position. After that the camera is moved away and look at the entity. I think this is a good solution.

EDIT2: Terrain Support added.

TripleX still has too much time :P