I was able to get some work done with DotNetFish over the weekend. This was the first weekend in almost a month that I was able to work on the project. If you remember from my last post, I had a short bucket list of items that I needed to implement. First on the list is getting the edge tiles land/water orientation to be correct. Here is how I planned to implement this.
- Each map graphics tile would need to know if its edge was water/land or contains both.
- when determining which tile to place, I need to check the edges to determine a match
Its funny how something that seems simple, takes so much longer. After modifying the client to accept the new graphics tile I needed to re-write the .csv file to inclued the edge type information. This proved to be an repetitive task. After fiddling with it for a bit, I decided that using an xml file would work much better. After thinking about it even more, I decided that having a program generate the xml file would work even better. So, I wrote a new application called maptilebuilder that processes a .png file. It steps through each tile in the image and allows you to manually set the edge points as well as the edge type. A future improvement would be to have it generate the xml file with minimal input, but that can wait.
So, even though I only got step 1a finished, it still is progress. I've got all of the changes in place for the second step, I just need to finish the code that chooses based on the edge type.
