PHP SCX Editor

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 11-11-2014 @ 12:04 PM).]

$Time = 100;
Trig("Display Time",1,0);
Cond_Timer($Time);
Efft_Display(10,0,"The game started $Time secondes ago.");

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 11-11-2014 @ 05:37 PM).]

For each points of the map
   Make a looped trigger
   Condition player trigger his spell
   Condition player is in the point
   Effect kill enemy units in an area of size = 3 around the point

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 11-11-2014 @ 07:03 PM).]

like giving ability to the player to launch a spell which kills units around him wherever he is on the map

With scripting you could also create some cool triggers into your scenario, like giving ability to the player to launch a spell which kills units around him wherever he is on the map, with four or five lines. It would take a year to do it in aokts !

Like this:

For each points of the map
Make a looped trigger
Condition player trigger his spell
Condition player is in the point
Effect kill enemy units in an area of size = 3 around the point

On a tiny map it will generate 14400 triggers, AOHH made maps with more 100k triggers and it work so it's not a problem ^^.

[This message has been edited by Mr Wednesday (edited 11-12-2014 @ 04:58 PM).]

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 11-12-2014 @ 07:40 PM).]

Quoted from Matt:

I have better memories of the ES scenarios than 95% of the custom campaigns I played from here. And they are all super simple. The problem is the target audience on this forum is other designers. As such, 'good' actually came to mean 'technically proficient', instead of fun. I'm guilty too. I won the cutscene competition with a technical dazzler. Show all the cutscenes to someone who doesn't know the limits of the editor and it's probably not the most entertaining.

I have better memories of the ES scenarios than 95% of the custom campaigns I played from here. And they are all super simple. The problem is the target audience on this forum is other designers. As such, 'good' actually came to mean 'technically proficient', instead of fun. I'm guilty too. I won the cutscene competition with a technical dazzler. Show all the cutscenes to someone who doesn't know the limits of the editor and it's probably not the most entertaining.

[This message has been edited by AOHH (edited 11-13-2014 @ 10:16 PM).]

I program myself but designing a scenario is something artistic and not technical in my opinion. When I design something I like to see what I'm doing and not just look at a wall of text

I think the "artistic" part of scenario design, is actually designing the scenario, not spending what feels like an eternity in the very very limited trigger editor and doing every single trigger by hand. After a while you just go in to auto-pilot, not thinking about what you are doing, but you're just sitting there clicking hour after hour. I'd much rather spend that time scripting, since if you're fluent with it, it could save you a lot of time, and enable a lot of new stuff to be added to a scenario.

See, you should never need more than a few hundred triggers. I have more than once done 100+ triggers in an evening. So trigger work shouldn't be so exhausting. Endless triggers come from trying to force gameplay that isn't natural to AoK. A lot of 'cool' gameplay can be achieved with 15 minutes in AGE. But in my opinion, anything that takes more than a couple sittings to implement is a bad idea.

Forcing different types of gameplay using AGE is the same thing as you described it, not the natural AoK. A lot of "cool" gameplay as you put it, can be achieved with 15 minutes of scripting as well. Which also removes the requirement of data mods. I don't see the different from using this to using AGE or TS. Different ways to achieve "unnatural" gameplay for the AoK engine.

[This message has been edited by Mr Wednesday (edited 11-14-2014 @ 09:03 PM).]

[This message has been edited by destroyo64 (edited 11-16-2014 @ 01:19 AM).]

Quoted from PhatFish:

Is an online version being developed which can be accessed through a browser?

Quoted from PhatFish:

And does it come complete with a nice frontend interface?

Quoted from destroyo64:

My question is how can I use this for Ludakris maps

Quoted from destroyo64:

Also- is it possible to paint trees onto the map through a gif?

Quoted from destroyo64:

Also- is it possible to paint trees onto the map through a gif?

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 11-16-2014 @ 08:00 AM).]

As AOHH said yes you can by creating trees with the function NewObject().

But you will have troubles if you call NewObject() inside format(). You can see NewObject() write on $data_serial, which is copied in $serial at begin of format(), so it will be ignored because the new data won't be copied in $serial.

So to fix it, modify NewObject() to write directly in $serial. You will have to set a new parametter to specify its adress, it's the only way to access it i guess.

Quoted from AOHH:

HD Edition allows maximum size 480x480 maps. I don't see why it would crash.

Quoted from destroyo64:

Also- is it possible to paint trees onto the map through a gif?

Yes, you use the function that creates an object; you select the location X/Y and unitID, ect, and set the rotation to random. You can even add a random range of 0.1 to 0.9 to location X/Y to make each tree offset so it looks realistic. And if you want the forests to look more concentrated, you simply place 2 trees per tile. Either that or you could use randomization of Oak and Oak-Snow trees.

Quoted from AzZzRu:

Quoted from destroyo64:

Also- is it possible to paint trees onto the map through a gif?

As AOHH said yes you can by creating trees with the function NewObject().

But you will have troubles if you call NewObject() inside format(). You can see NewObject() write on $data_serial, which is copied in $serial at begin of format(), so it will be ignored because the new data won't be copied in $serial.

So to fix it, modify NewObject() to write directly in $serial. You will have to set a new parametter to specify its adress, it's the only way to access it i guess.

[This message has been edited by destroyo64 (edited 11-28-2014 @ 09:44 PM).]

Quoted from destroyo64:

$packed .= pack ( 'c3' , $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 1 ] , $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 2 ] , 0 ) ;

Is it possible to specify an object to $serial (just like the terrain) to place it at the x and y coordinates?

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 11-29-2014 @ 05:40 PM).]

Quoted from AzZzRu:

Quoted from destroyo64:

$packed .= pack ( 'c3' , $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 1 ] , $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 2 ] , 0 ) ;

Is it possible to specify an object to $serial (just like the terrain) to place it at the x and y coordinates?

No, when we do this we modify properties of terrain data. To add an object you have to create it following the object format, that you can see at # objects / player / object. Then when you done that you add it in serial [ 'object' ] [ $player ].

But this is manual method which is crap to handle !

As i told you just use NewObject function, following the specified parameters.

I never did forest generation so i tried for the fun, you can see this example which is simple: Cannabis Forest

I generate my forest and terrain in Function.php.

In Triggers.php at # terrain / data, I added some lines to put beach everywhere there is water next to desert.

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 12-01-2014 @ 09:18 AM).]

[This message has been edited by Rashneish (edited 12-15-2014 @ 01:55 PM).]

Heyas,

The image to map function is just what I've been looking for, but I found the tutorial extremely confusing and have no prior experience with PHP or coding in general.

Is anyone aware of a suitably simple tutorial that pertains directly to the image conversion or an alternative method?

Thanks in advance.

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 12-18-2014 @ 05:49 AM).]

First line you choose your image, it should be a .gif and its resolution have to be the same as your map.
Then you have two methods:
- By color index (the best): Open your image in gimp 2 and switch in indexed color mode, now your image will have an id assigned to each colour. You can know this id by loading indexed color palette. In the switch specify which terrain is assigned to the color id.
- By color: No need touch your image, just use imagecolorsforindex instead of imagecolorat, it will return value RVB of the pixel. Then do the switch on $color['blue']. Then assign to the pixel color bleu intensity a terrain id.

- By color: No need touch your image, just use imagecolorsforindex instead of imagecolorat, it will return value RVB of the pixel. Then do the switch on $color['blue']. Then assign to the pixel color bleu intensity a terrain id.

$color = imagecolorsforindex($image,imagecolorat( $image , $x , $y )); # Using pixel color RGB          
//$color = imagecolorat( $image , $x , $y ); # Using pixel color index
$id = null;
switch ($color['blue']){ # Using pixel color RGB
//switch ($color){ # Using pixel color index
case 0: $id = 12; break;
case 1: $id = 3; break;
case 2: $id = 41; break;
case 3: $id = 12; break;
case 4: $id = 23; break;
}

[This message has been edited by Ahti (edited 01-21-2015 @ 04:11 PM).]

for ( $y = 0 ; $y < $length [ 2 ] ; $y ++ ) for ( $x = 0 ; $x < $length [ 1 ] ; $x ++ )
{
$colorID = imageColorAt( $image , $x , $y ); // Using pixel color index
// var_dump($colorID);
$trrnID = NULL ;
switch ($colorID)
{
case 0: $trrnID = 12; break;
case 1: $trrnID = 3; break;
case 2: $trrnID = 41; break;
case 3: $trrnID = 12; break;
case 4: $trrnID = 23; break;
}

if ( isset ( $trnnID ) ) $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 1 ] = $trrnID ;
$packed .= pack ( 'c3' , $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 1 ] , $serial [ 'terrain' ] [ 'data' ] [ $x . ',' . $y ] [ 2 ] , 0 ) ;
}

But then what? Where and how do I assign the pixel color blue a terrain ID?

case X1: $id = X2; break;

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 01-22-2015 @ 10:22 AM).]

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 07-31-2015 @ 03:04 PM).]

if($id !== false && isset($terrainIds[$id]))SCX::$data_serial['terrain']['data'][$x.','.$y][1] = $terrainIds[$id];

if($id !== false && isset($terrainIds[$id])){
    // Set terrain
    SCX::$data_serial['terrain']['data'][$x.','.$y][1] = $terrainIds[$id];
    // Add tree
    if($id == $id_for_forest && rand(1,2) == 1){ // Density 50%
        NewObject(...) // Randomize also unit Id
    }
}

[This message has been edited by AzZzRu (edited 02-04-2016 @ 04:50 AM).]

Are you using SetTerrainFromImage() from last version to generate the terrain ?

It only generate terrain, to generate trees you have to customize the function: For a range of colors, in addition to terrain, add a random tree with NewObject().

Anyway I think I'll add an easy function to do this, it should be with image to terrain.

[This message has been edited by Wimski (edited 02-08-2016 @ 08:59 AM).]