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Why wouldn't games be published with Map Editors included?
There could be a lot of factors but the ones that come to my mind first are ease of use and compatibility.
An AAA office environment would most likely have company-provided computers, meaning there ...
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Why wouldn't games be published with Map Editors included?
What money can you make from such a map editor?
Prolonging the lifetime of a game is great for the customer, but for the studio? Blizzard had to keep the original Battle.Net servers online much ...
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C++ property system interface for game editors (reflection system)
This is an incredibly complicated problem. I had an old series on blog about it but (a) I no longer recommend that approach and (b) old posts on my blog can't be read easily due to a snafu with a ...
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How can I deal with tilemap position in the editor?
The select tool.
Clicking any tile with the select tool, the inspector will tell you the position relative to 0,0.
With a little bit of math (and/or additional clicks), you can hone in on whichever ...
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C++ property system interface for game editors (reflection system)
The best way I've seen is to make use of some custom introspection. As Sean pointed out, this is pretty difficult to do on your own since it's not a direct standard C++ feature in any way. So if you'...
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How can I deal with tilemap position in the editor?
It is an old question - There doesn't still seem to be easy way to show clearly the origin and the bounds of a Tilemap, but it can be solved with a script that runs in the Editor like Philipp said.
I ...
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Why wouldn't games be published with Map Editors included?
To complement the already existing answers I want to add two points:
Often newer games have more complex geometry, effects or design (I'm not speaking of level layout here, only the complexity of the ...
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Best visual way to build a "near isometric" 2D view
These are the two main solutions I can think of:
If you use tilesets, add a rectangle on top of your tiles. You should also move the collision detection up a bit, not to have your character walking ...
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Loading content into an Winforms/XNA Editor's content project
Dynamically importing and processing content at runtime is explained in the sample
WinForms Series 2: Content Loading. This is the preferred method.
You can also build an XNA Content Project file ...
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Creating interiors in Unity
Is there any reason you are using primitives over meshes? The engine shines if you import custom models. So you can avoid the tedious process of modeling in unity by modeling in a program that is ...
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How can I register Mouse Events in the Scene window of the Editor?
Perhaps this is something you are looking for. This allows you to register mouse events in the scene, when a game object with the specified type is selected in the hierarchy.
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Approaches on 2D top-view racing game track design
The way I would approach this is to create at least two tiles (dirt and road) on GIMP as you suggested (pixel size depending on the size of your car). Then I would keep track of the "board" of a ...
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Isometric Map with different Z-axis values
Sharp edges are easy, you just subtract height times step height from the y coordinate and you're done.
Smooth edges on the other hand are a bit harder. For each tile you have to check the ...
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How to store data and behaviour for what happens within a level?
There are fundamentally two parts to anything in a video game; data and behaviour.
An example of data would be the speed of the player, how high they can jump, how many enemies should spawn in a ...
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How to author custom objects in a tile map?
so as it turns out Tiled already lets you give tiles properties, just click the '+' in the tileset editor and you can add variables which can be accessed by a library such as tmxlite, this took me ...
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How can I deal with tilemap position in the editor?
You can use this gizmo. It looks like this. More info in this tweet.
Basically, what it does is draw the axes' cordinates of a selected Grid or Tilemap component. When zoomed in enough it draws the ...
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How can I deal with tilemap position in the editor?
This may be counterintuitive as one would expect the focused tilemap in the palette reveals its zero/origin. However that doesn't happen. Instead, to find the zero you will not only focus the tilemap ...
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How to prevent objects from colliding into each other in the Unity editor?
Try this:
Surface snapping
While dragging in the center using the Move tool, hold Shift and Control (Command on Mac) to quickly snap the GameObject to the intersection of any Collider.
https://docs....
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Placing units on isometric map (2D)
One big thing about optimization is that you should avoid doing it until you're sure you have a problem, and even then only after measuring to see where the problem actually is. Static colliders in ...
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unity real time terrain editor
Yes, it is possible. Take a look at the classes Terrain and TerrainData.
You can edit the heights with the method "SetHeights" by passing float arrays.
But it can be very expensive, depending on what ...
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How can I register Mouse Events in the Scene window of the Editor?
You only need to add the [ExecuteInEditMode] attribute to your class to run events in edit mode:
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2D Map Editor Tiles Palette - Best suited Java Elements to use?
I'd go with an MouseListener per JLabel. Make a custom subclass of MouseListener which is parameterized with the tileId (or whatever you are using to identify the tiles).
Furthermore would not ...
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Creating interiors in Unity
To build level geometry within Unity, probably the best tool available is ProBuilder: http://www.protoolsforunity3d.com/probuilder/
However, the usual approach is don't build your level geometry ...
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Creating interiors in Unity
What you try to do is practically impossible. The primitives are there just for prototyping/placeholders. You will have to "get" those from outside of Unity. Or you can look at asset store, there are ...
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2d canvas representation in c++ code
I would understand a level/map editor but use one of the many available image/photo editing software to create/modify your assets is better (IMHO). Also it will save you time, as image editors are ...
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How can a team work together to assemble a large world map?
What can be done with many engines out of the box is to:
Settle down the heightmap for the whole world, as you usually cannot split this one up easily
Use layers to divide the entities into well ...
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Is there a way to use the ContentManager with full directory paths
Set Game.Content.RootDirectory to the path you want and then just specify the file name portion. But keep in mind that you still have to include them in the Content ...
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Starcraft 2 Editor: I want to make two players share their income
You'll want to look in triggers for an action called, "Set Alliance Aspect". Then look to have them share "Resource Spending". You might have to run it twice so it works in both ...
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