Saturday, February 2, 2008

Mucking about with a map editor

It's something that OpenFracas has been missing. The ability to create custom maps is something that we'd love to give users, and eventually we will. We have no official plans for it yet, but once we have a map editor that is capable of creating these maps, we want to have a custom maps section on our web site.

All of this is jumping the gun a little bit, since the Map Editor is very new, and very lacking in features. For now, at least. The code for drawing maps in the map editor is actually where the code for the new faster map previews (mentioned earlier) comes from. This has been sitting around for a while, now, growing ever so slowly. It might not make it into the 0.4 release, as there are a number of other things that we want to get done, or need to polish, but eventually we'd really like to make map customization available.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's nice to see you've maintained progress on OpenFracas well and I hope you keep up the good work though I feel a bit sorry that you are burdened with so much coding; if only I was experienced enough and had the time. Maybe you could get some exposure and pull in some more coders by posting on the ubuntu forums.