On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Chris "Winston" Litchfield wrote: there is a snippet to print a world map as an XPM? got a URL?
> Is that not the automap snippet does for you? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blue Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 2:55 PM > Subject: generating world maps (was Re: DISCUSSION TOPIC: RP vs HACK) > > > > > > hope you don't mind me copying the list back in.. > > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > > > > > hey - regarding this - could you possibly show me the code that allows > you > > > to do that? -- I've been trying to do the exact opposite - generate a > .xpm > > > file from my grid to view on www. > > > > this should be really easy, if your wilderness is actually a grid. a > > 10x10, 3 color xpm file looks like this: > > > > /* XPM */ > > static char * test[] = { > > "10 10 4 1", // width, height, num colors, alpha channel (?) > > " c None", // hex color value > > ". c #2453B7", // and glyph key pairs > > "+ c #000000", // > > "@ c #1EDB1E", // > > "..........", > > "..........", > > ".++++++...", > > ".+@@@@+...", > > ".+@@@@+....", > > ".++++++...", > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", > > "..........", // height lines of width chars > > }; > > > > first, pick one color per wilderness sector type. you can use the gimp or > > photoshop or whatever to give you the hex values. you can either just > > write them to the top of a file, or, if you want output mapping to be > > dynamic (if you have wilderness editing in OLC or something), you can just > > include em in a header somewhere. > > > > then, pick a glyph for each wilderness sector type, corresponding to your > > entries in merc.h, ie: > > > > const char *wilderness_glyphs[] = > > { > > "f", //field > > "F", //forest > > "H", //hills > > "M", //mountain > > "w", //water_swim > > "W", //water_noswim > > "A", //air > > "D" //desert > > }; > > > > etc. then just open an FH for your output file, walk your wilderness, and > > output one char per room( wilderness_glyphs[wilderness_room->sector] ), > > ending with a '",'. > > > > how that happens depends on how your wilderness is set up. > > > > the code i use to create my 512x512 world, after being mangled by indent, > > looks like this: > > > > extern char *terrain_xpm[]; // an xpm created in the gimp with a fixed > > // pallette > > > > struct world_type { > > > > int posx; > > int posy; > > int posz; // z is virtualized for flying, ie, not read from the map > > int sector; > > int area; // which area is linked to pos x,y,z in the world > > > > }; > > > > struct world_type world[512][512]; > > > > int create_world() > > { > > > > int x, y; > > > > for (x = 0; x < 512; x++) { > > for (y = 0; y < 512; y++) { > > world[x][y].posx = x; > > world[x][y].posy = y; > > world[x][y].posz = 0; > > world[x][y].area = 0; > > switch (terrain_xpm[x][y]) { > > case 'F': > > world[x][y].sector = 2; > > break; > > case 'f': > > world[x][y].sector = 3; > > break; > > case 'W': > > world[x][y].sector = 4; > > break; > > case 'w': > > world[x][y].sector = 5; > > break; > > case 'D': > > world[x][y].sector = 6; > > break; > > case 'd': > > world[x][y].sector = 7; > > break; > > case 'h': > > world[x][y].sector = 8; > > break; > > case 'a': > > world[x][y].sector = 9; > > break; > > case 'j': > > world[x][y].sector = 1; > > break; > > case 'g': > > world[x][y].sector = 1; > > break; > > default: > > world[x][y].sector = 0; > > break; > > } > > } > > } > > > > return 0; > > } > > > > pretty straightforward. don't be like me and use numbers for your sectors, > > btw. ;) > > > > hope that helps, > > > > -- > > Blue Lang http://www.b-side.org/~blue > > editor, b-side.org http://www.b-side.org > > bug generation unit, alanthia mud alanthia.org 1536 > > integration engineer, veritas software http://www.veritas.com > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > > > > -- -- Blue Lang http://www.b-side.org/~blue editor, b-side.org http://www.b-side.org bug generation unit, alanthia mud alanthia.org 1536 integration engineer, veritas software http://www.veritas.com
