import map

[life2searching]

i am making a flash rpg with MMF2, and my friend wants to design levels.

is there a simple solution anyone can think of , where he can design the layout of the maps without having to even acess my .mfa, which i can load into mmf in a memory efficient way - preferably not as giant background objects

i posted this in flash section, because i cant use a extension that is *not* available to flash.

[superpoo2]

The way I did this for my game was have the level editor save to an external text file. Then in the actual game as MMF2 flash doesn't really support external files very well, I'm using a list object to hold all of my level data (just copy and paste from text file into list).

Not sure how well this will scale for a full blown RPG but for the simple thing I'm working on at the moment it's able to fastloop through and build the level pretty well from the internal list object.

Following this method, you can build an exe version of the editor (added benefit is this won't limit you to the flash supported extensions), give it to your friend and he can just send you the text files for your game engine.

[life2searching]

nice... thanks for the suggestion.

the rpg i am making is pretty "lite" so i think this would be a good approach.

did you ever look into the "mappy" program?
i wonder if MMF could interpret the exported text map from that...

[superpoo2]

I'd say that it would be possible for a custom MMF2 extension to be written to natively support the Mappy format (I think it's FMP), but looking at the text export it looks to be just a number coded array.

The file is comma delimited so you should have no problem using the string parser object to load levels using your game engine.

I found the following site that explains how Mappy text export files can be loaded into Flixel, hopefully this will be of some assistance, at least on the Mappy side of things. http://flixel.org/forums/index.php?topic=211.0

Cheers,

Dave