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…
I had some time this week to look into the comments I got regarding the map script. Thankfully, I commented a lot of my code when I started this back in October so it wasn’t that hard to track down the problems and provide some fixes. I’m still leaving it in the script in a…
I’ve added the Basic Explosions Set to EDIBLE. The picture shows three different animation types that this set includes. I’ve updated the animations when attacking, bombarding, and dropping nukes. These are all at 128×128 definition with matches the resolution all my newer tiles are using. The old explosion animations were just too out of place…
I recently performed a series of site upgrades which have cost me a few days of downtime. Also, my real-life job is quite demanding in February so updates are getting noticeably slower. This is likely to continue for a few weeks before I can get back into things. The good news is, this post is…
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…
