Editor development

Fiachra

Posted on 01-02-13 06:13 PM (rev. 12 of 01-24-13 11:10 AM)

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I'll also be posting updates on the progress here as I don't a new thread'd be necessary.

Bug:
I don't know if it's only me, but when moving the camera with the right mouse button, the camera goes crazy fast and makes flips etc.
Revision: 23

That's been done deliberately - you'll to ask Mega-Mario

Suggestion:
It would be really nice if the dark-texture thing could be fixed. When you import your model, you always have to make them a bit brighter, so they don't look dark after importing
Revision: 23

That turned out to be Google Sketchup not exporting them properly.

Latest: Revision 31 - 24/01/2013

Rev. 24 31/12/2012:
2 bug fixes.
This line:
if (cross(v.sub(u), w.sub(u)).norm_sq() < 0.001) { continue; } //#TODO: find a better solution

was getting rid of very small faces, like the ones on the inside of the coin - the coins now work.

Also this:
int result = (int)(ix*this.magic_x + iy*this.magic_y + iz*this.magic_z) % this.num_buckets;

Sometimes num_buckets could be equal to zero if there were fewer than 256 triangles in the model (problem is also in blank's script, download fix here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yyj6e8). I've fixed this problem as well in the editor (code added to repo).

Rev. 25 31/12/2012:
1 bug fix.
Fixed bug whereby importing an object model/collision would replace the level's model/collision, forgot to update after fixing the collision generation.

Rev. 26 02/01/2013:
2 new features.

Added LZ77 compression with or without header (files where ForceDecompression() was used eg. minimap files).

Added minimap editing. You can now import your own image, must be 256 or fewer colours indexed bitmap and size has to be the same as the minimap you're replacing.
You can also choose which colour to use as the background image (default is first colour in palette).

(Below: Custom image with default background colour, Custom image with custom background colour, Minimap Editor)

I've tested it both using an emulator and the DS itself, fully working.

Rev. 27 06/01/2013
2 improvements, 1 minor change

Suggestion:
Making object-moving better. I mean, you should be able to click on one of the axis-arrows to move it on the selected axis.

You can now move an object along a particular axis by using X,Y and Z keys while moving it.

Added multiple face selection in KCL Editor so you can change several or all collision types at once.

Also added option to use old method for generating collision (ImportCollisionMap() instead of ObjToKcl class) when importing models because some people wanted it.

Rev. 28 07/01/2013
1 bug fix

Removing this line:
if (cross(v.sub(u), w.sub(u)).norm_sq() < 0.001) { continue; } //#TODO: find a better solution

was causing some strange collision behaviour and leaving it as it was meant very small faces were dropped. Setting it to check for < 0.0005 seems to fix both problems. If you're still having problems, play about with the value of it.
Pointless

Rev. 29 07/01/2013
1 improvement

You can now choose the threshold value for removing very small faces when importing collision or set it to not remove any (enter 0). (This line: if (cross(v.sub(u), w.sub(u)).norm_sq() < 0.001) { continue; } //#TODO: find a better solution)

Rev. 30 19/01/2013
1 new feature, 1 minor improvement

Added texture animation editor - you can edit or remove existing texture animations including their scale, rotation and translation values as well as adding new ones.

Also added option for changing minimap co-ordinate scale.

Rev. 31 24/01/2013
2 improvements

Got model exporting working

I made a mistake with working out the amount of faces in quadrilateral strips, messed up BODMAS. I had this:
4+(N-1)*2 vertices per N quads
((N/2)-4)+1 Quads. per N Vertices
instead of
4+(N-1)*2 vertices per N quads
((N-4)/2) + 1 Quads. per N Vertices

Some textures are upside down or repeated incorrectly but that's because the BMD format supports texture features that OBJ doesn't, that can't be helped. Also fixed the issue with exporting models that had a material without a texture that caused the textures to become swapped around.

Before:

After:

I had made improvements to the minimap editor that appeared to be working perfectly but it seems that resolution and other information about the minimaps is hardcoded into the game somewhere. Eg. just swapping playroom's minimap with Bob-Omb Battlefield's doesn't work. As Mega-Mario would say: Blarg!
The changes though should allow it to be used as a general 2D graphics editor with some changes.


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