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Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit v0.2.1.0b

Postby FaultCheck » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:53 am

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August 9th, 2012 9:00 PM CST - UPDATE

http://blockman2d.herokuapp.com/
Beta 0.2.1.0 Minor Update Released!
- Fixed Map Generator VXL Writer, Now outputting and writing proper VXL Format!
- Added VXL Cleaner Command Line Tool Advanced Will batch read and write and TRY to clean vxl format files from
other software exports to match the Ace of Spades VXL Standard.
Run vxlcleaner.exe From the Blockman2D Install Directory "default: C:\Program Files(x86)\Blockman2D\" to view
help, and remember to backup your vxl files before you clean, and verify they have converted properly before
removing your backups.

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August 4th, 2012 1:00 PM CST - UPDATE

http://blockman2d.herokuapp.com/
Beta 0.2.0.5 Minor Update Released!
- Map Generator Now Colorizing The Maps Successfully
- Fixed issues Doodad Editor, Rotate and Vert Code.

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July 29th, 2012 10:00 AM CST - UPDATE

http://blockman2d.herokuapp.com/
Beta 0.2.0.0 Major Update Released!
- Window Resizing Added
- Window Multi-Task Added
- Water Shade Overlay Added
- Doodads max size increased to 20x20
- New BlockExchange System, allowing sharing of Doodads, Height Maps, and Map Templates.
- Undo Cache has increased to 10 for all three tools.
- Made fixes to Map and Photo Generator with Map Colorization, fixed a few issues, maps now painting accuratly.
- File compression added to the BDD, BHM, and BMT File formats.
- Thumb generated and now saved with file for BlockExchange.

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July 16th, 2012 5:00 PM CST - UPDATE

http://blockman2d.herokuapp.com/
Beta 0.1.4.5 Mini-Update Released!
- Added Update Check, can be disabled in settings.

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July 16th, 2012 12:00 PM CST - UPDATE

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Beta 0.1.4.0 Released!
- Doodad Editor Disk Caching Adding for Blocks, Furthur Optimized for Speed.
- Block Graphic in Doodad Editor Updates for cleaner lines.
- Undo Feature added to Height Map Editor, Map Painter, and Doodad Editor.
- Marquee Tool for Copy and Pasting Added To Height Map Editor and Map Painter. Use right click and drag to reposition.
- Shape Marquee Tool Added To Height Map Editor and Map Painter.
- EyeDropper Tool Added to Height Map Editor and Map Painter.
- Free Paint/Locked Line Painting Added to both Height Map, and Map Painter. Left click to free draw, right click to lock draw.

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July 2nd, 2012 2:00 PM CST - UPDATE
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Site Updated!

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July 2nd, 2012 2:00 AM CST - UPDATE

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Beta 0.1.3.0 Released!
- Fixed Doodad Vertical Height Code for 2D Interface
- Created YouTube Tutorial Viewer.
- Created tool tip dialogs across system. Can be disabled in settings.
- 2D Interface now collapsable.
- Added Square Brushes to Height Map Editor and Map Painter.
- Fixed Alpha bug with Generated Maps
- Changed Random Brush
- Updated Map Painter Options GUI
- Bug Fixes and General Improvements.

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UPDATE - PLEASE READ

I just wanted to make it clear my intentions of this software, I fully intend to keep it freeware/shareware, shareable by the community and everyone alike at no cost. BETA Stage or Full Stage alike. After just a short time playing the game I really felt there was a need for a simpler, more user friendly map designer, and that's how the software was born. First Released on June 21st 2012, with development starting the end of May 2012, so the software is still young, and I appreciate your feedback and suggestions and patients as I work out the kinks in my spare time!

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June 24th, 2012 7:00 PM CST - UPDATE

http://blockman2d.herokuapp.com/
Beta 0.1.2.0 Released!
- Added VXL Convertor - Convert Existing VXL Maps to an Editable Format!
- Doodad Editor Height Fix in Place, Should be working a lot better!
- A Bunch of Small fixes, and bug fixes.

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SOME AWESOME NEWS - GET EXCITED
June 24th, 2012 - NOON - CST
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I was able to get a VXL Map Convertor up and running, it creates a height map which can be edited in the Height Map Editor, and a JPEG Landscape Image that can be imported into Map Painter.

Only one down side... :[ since the Height Map and Map Painter work on a single layer system ( it doesn't allow for overhangs and bridges quite yet ) the converted maps are pulled into a single layer, now this may remove the overhand altogether, or make it solid to it's height like a tower instead of a platform... The next step is to create a full editor allowing opening of the vxl directly, without needing for conversion, this will be the final major peice bringing everything in full circle.

Also made a bunch of little fixes, Doodad Editor should be working much better with the 3D Isometric Interface.

Finishing things up, hopefully will have latest version up by end of day.

Want to throw out a thanks to BuffetOfLies with resource help and really pushing the need for loading existing VXL files. Also Thanks to everybody who helped me to debug the reader! This community is awesome!

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June 21st, 2012 8:00 PM CST - UPDATE

Beta 0.1.1.0 Released!
- Major Optimization to the Isometric Doodad Rendering Engine
- Added 2D Interface to Doodad Editor, Allowing user to use the 3D or 2D interface.
- Transparent Height Blocks renamed to Risers.

Please let me know how everything is running with the doodad editor with the updates, thanks everybody!

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A shout out to the mapping community! I've released a toolkit for Ace of Spades and Pyspades Map Generation, feature rich and with the help of the community I hope to make it even better. If your an active mapper, then you really should stop by and give it a try!

A Doodad creator, a height map painter, a map painter, and many more options! Check out the site for more details, and please send suggestions and feedback!

Blockman2D - Ace of Spades 2D Map Generator Tools
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby bobbotheclown » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:41 am

that doodad editor is sexy.
edit: the editor is hard to use, but never the less, sexy.
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby Tek2 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:56 pm

Crashed for me when I entered the photo thingy. :S

The model builder was slower to use than slab6 (atleast in my opinion)

Otherwise seems nice. I like how it looks, really eye friendly.
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby FaultCheck » Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:37 am

It's still in beta, the Isometric interface is completely written from scratch, so I still have some fine tuning on it to speed it up, but it is meant for small objects and such so I thought it would be okay to release for the first beta.

I will run through the photo map generator and debug it, see if I can't figure out why it would have crashed on you.

I really appreciate you guys taking the time to check it out!! Any suggestions or ideas you have are always welcome would really help to build this out.
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby FaultCheck » Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:47 am

bobbotheclown wrote:that doodad editor is sexy.
edit: the editor is hard to use, but never the less, sexy.


Your making me blush bobbo! lol! :D
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby TheGrandmaster » Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:01 am

I hope to have a good look at this once I'm free (in the next day or two) because it's great to see more tools for mapping.
I used a strange mix of blender plug-ins (that jojoe made), GIMP, Paint.net and a heightmap exporter (by bildramer), so it'd be interesting to see how your program works and how easy it will be to use.
I could certainly give you some feedback when I have the time to properly test it.
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby MrVoxelCloud » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:54 am

Looks great !
I hope you will continue and finish it. :)
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby FaultCheck » Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:26 pm

TheGrandmaster wrote:I hope to have a good look at this once I'm free (in the next day or two) because it's great to see more tools for mapping.
I used a strange mix of blender plug-ins (that jojoe made), GIMP, Paint.net and a heightmap exporter (by bildramer), so it'd be interesting to see how your program works and how easy it will be to use.
I could certainly give you some feedback when I have the time to properly test it.


I really appreciate you taking the time to do that! With this tool, it should consolidate all of that into one application, I have a paint like GUI for the height maps and the map painting, I have an Isometric Editor that I'm currently working on making much faster, already optimized it like 100x last night, working on adding a layer system with it so you can use the 3d aspect, or the 2d layers to edit the doodads, I will be releasing the update today or tomorrow, so you may want to check for an update when you get the chance to sit down and play with it.
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby FaultCheck » Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:29 pm

MrVoxelCloud wrote:Looks great !
I hope you will continue and finish it. :)


That is the plan, at this time it is useable, you should be able to compile maps and save and edit. The system may be a tad unstable so I'm still working on the memory management aspects, and speeding up the Isometric Doodad Editor I wrote, which it's coming along great!

Your support is MUCH APPRECIATED! Thank you!
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby Frostified » Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:51 pm

This should be stickied.
This could be the replacement of voxed.
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby Valor » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:09 pm

This is pretty awesome.
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Re: Blockman2D - Map Generator Toolkit

Postby FaultCheck » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:24 am

Frostified wrote:This should be stickied.
This could be the replacement of voxed.


HUGE Compliment Thank You!

Valor wrote:This is pretty awesome.


Thank You!
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby Tank » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:53 am

Just been messing around with it for a couple of minutes, and I'm liking this a lot, you can pretty much make a map solely from this. The only thing I've had a slight problem with so far is the doodad creator, there's no way of making a vertical stem of blocks without it placing a block behind the block I want to place on top of, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong. The rest of the tools seem fine from what I've done so far (which wasn't much).

I'll be sure to keep up to date with this, nice work~
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby FaultCheck » Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:03 am

Tank wrote:Just been messing around with it for a couple of minutes, and I'm liking this a lot, you can pretty much make a map solely from this. The only thing I've had a slight problem with so far is the doodad creator, there's no way of making a vertical stem of blocks without it placing a block behind the block I want to place on top of, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong. The rest of the tools seem fine from what I've done so far (which wasn't much).

I'll be sure to keep up to date with this, nice work~


I'm playing with that code to get it just right, I will keep working on it! Not sure if you have the 0.1.1.0 release, but I just added a 2D Level Plane to the doodad editor that is also interactive and a little easier to use with the 3d aspect as a visual guide.
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Re: Blockman2D

Postby TheSifodias » Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:49 am

This might be potentially one of the best map making tools. But you'll need a second opinion, my /net framework does not approve of this D:
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