I’ve updated the Random Map Generator to Version 1.3. This update was mainly to fix the issues with names showing up with squares instead of letters with diacritics. My choices were to inform the game developer and wait for a fix, apply a regex to modify broken letters, or just hard code a list without…
It’s been pointed out that my map script still includes issues with the city naming. I looked into it and it appears that EDCE doesn’t have multi-language support. Some characters don’t have issues but others do. I am going to make a guess that it only supports German and Spanish character sets. When I get…
After about two weeks of revisions, I settled on this layout for the unit tiles. It’s called the Empire Deluxe Unit Template (EDUT). After searching through the EDCE manual, doing some in-game tests, and searching through the art assets I determined all of the possible status options I could identify without making any code changes. …
I’ve uploaded the new 128×128 unit tiles for Ground Forces. This tile set represents the template I plan to use for future unit tiles. I used real objects for the outline design and the additional texture is meant to help identify it from a distance. For instance, I decided to move away from the iconic…
After some tinkering I was finally able to get unit tiles to work. I learned a couple of important lessons along the way. But the good news is the new tiles are working, so now it is just a matter of time before I am able to draw them and get them uploaded. More is…
It’s only been a day and already I’ve uncovered the main limitation to unit icons – transparency. It looks like the sprites cannot use an alpha channel and are instead appearing as black. The game is instead trying to auto scale the images and remove the transparent pixels. This is surely a choice of the…
As I indicated in my last post couple of posts, I decided to pass along a few of the lessons learned I’ve had from some recent artwork I made for a game using the Unity Engine. I’m specifically referring to the work I did with multi-layered road sprites and the 2 bit supply sprites. Both…
As I indicated in my last post, I’m releasing the brown road tiles I’ve been working on despite some reservations. You can find it on EDIBLE. I was not able to get the roads to look exactly the way I wanted, but most of the anomalies are only visible on the closest zoom settings. The…
For the sake of completeness, I’ve decided to do road networks next. I knew this was going to be a painful exercise before I got started. But for the sake of completeness, I wanted to finish out the map-related art in the terrain directory before I moved on to something else more interesting, probably unit…
I decided to post up the map script I’ve been working on. It’s very much a beta, so try it at your own risk. I would recommend any map file you create be opened through the in-game map editor. I’ve found it to be the most full-proof method of verifying if it will work properly. …
