{"id":1436,"date":"2011-09-07T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2011-09-07T20:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:07:47","slug":"the-gratuitous-editor-and-ui-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/09\/07\/the-gratuitous-editor-and-ui-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gratuitous Editor and UI flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on the GTB<\/a> map editor.\u00a0 Editing the maps won’t be just for modders, but for everyone, so this is a very important part of the game and I need to get it right. I’m going to really encourage custom maps as a big part of the game, with the singleplayer campaign maps acting purely as examples and tasters of what can be made.<\/p>\n

Here is a Work-In-Progress screenshot with some old GSB UI still in place:<\/p>\n

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Given my plans for it’s use, it’ s important that the editor looks easy to use. I’m wary of making mistakes in terms of UI flow. Essentially, the editor works in 3 modes, which I’m currently calling ‘normal’ ‘prop’ and ‘ground’ which is a bit rubbish, but I need to split things up somehow.<\/p>\n

Normal mode, lets you edit individual tiles, by setting up routes, toggling them as attacker or defender-deployable, and placing ‘whole-tile’ items like trench sections, emplacements, or sections of path.<\/p>\n

Prop mode is basically where you add, move, rotate and scale decorative items like barbed wire, trees, tank traps, and other fluff that exists to make the world look interesting<\/p>\n

Ground mode lets you edit the background tiles, which is again, purely visual.<\/p>\n

The window on the right changes with each mode to display the relevant items (tiles \/ props \/ textures).<\/p>\n

A right click menu, mainly for normal mode, lets you carry out actions on all the selected tiles. The editor supports zooming in and out with the mouse, WSAD movement, drag-selection and ctrl-selection.\u00a0 It adjusts ( a bit) to different resolutions.<\/p>\n

The thing that concerns me is the UI ‘flow’ of those three modes.\u00a0I wonder if I can somehow squash all 3 modes together. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m working on the GTB map editor.\u00a0 Editing the maps won’t be just for modders, but for everyone, so this is a very important part of the game and I need to get it right. I’m going to really encourage custom maps as a big part of the game, with the singleplayer campaign maps acting<\/p>\n

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