WIP Starbound Toolset / Dungeon Editor

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just here to say that i really like what you have done, awesome!

 

Haha, no, unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on the editor today -- with university work and all. I've implemented zooming and panning within the editor, and I'm almost done implementing a grid overlay. I'm hoping to release a sneak preview version at some point tonight/tomorrow that functions only as an interactive dungeon viewer (no editing), just to get feedback on the user interface. University work permitting, of course.

 

so this actually looks very user friendly imo - so i have actually high hopes to be able to understand it when its finished

i would like to know more about the workflow, or the steps required to get something i made into the game. from my understanding sofar:

1. i paint a dungeon, biome, ship whatever in your app
2. i export it to some file
3. i add this file somewhere into my SB folders
4. now the dungeon is considered when randomly generating a world


is this somewhat correct?

 

More accurately, it will be:

1. Design your dungeon in the editor.
2. Add your dungeon to the planetbiomes file's whitelist, so it is considered for generation.

 

so the output is some sort of code i copy&paste?

sounds easy enough thanks for your work!

 

Well the output will be a .dungeon file full of code, and several .png images filled with a colour map. But you won't need to touch any of that stuff. You'll just add your dungeon name to the whitelist.

 

allright then - your avatar tells me "You can do it!" so i feel confident enough to give it a try as soon as you release something

 

Aww... sadly, that's the right way to do it. Good luck out there, and I can't wait for a release!

 

I'll admit, even I'm getting a little impatient only because I'm so friggen excited (not as a rude gesture, but as like I was when I was waiting for beta I was impatiently excited). I can't wait to get my hands on it because its going to have making dungeons sooo much easier.

 

I definitely want to get something out there - even if it can only display dungeons - as soon as possible. Thanks for the support everyone.

 

so can you define npc placement friendly shop keeps/ angry temple guards?

 

I've been in regular communication, and I've gotta say Kel's been doing a fantastic job so far! We've got a pretty firm idea of how things are going to work, so fingers crossed that we'll have something I can put to good use in the near future!

 

I cannot wait to use this to help make my Naruto dungeon!


THIS IS EUPHORIC!!!

*tips fedora*

 

Unfortunately, there are still problems to fix with object placement. (as you can probably see from the screenshot.) I'll need to fix that problem before I'm comfortable with a public release. Nonetheless, we edge ever closer!

 

Preview release with viewing functionality:

http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?resources/starbound-toolset-preview.152/

 

Is there a way to place more than one block at a time in the current build?

As for suggestions, I would really appreciate it if there were some sort of built in functionality that allowed me to place objects into geometric shapes like ellipses and triangles. Having a selection tool that allowed for copying and pasting of an entire area would be good (and maybe mirroring about both axes too). Another function that would be useful would be a masking tool (only replace blocks of certain type or replace every other block except the selected type). Having some form of the fill tool would be helpful too. There was already mention to this, but being able to place the spawn point of NPC's would be fantastic.

 

does the game use npc spawners off screen?
the blue teleport looking things?

 

At the moment you can't place blocks. This version is an early release that allows you to view dungeons, but not edit them -- the editing capability is the next thing I'm going to be adding., once I've completely finished rendering (including npcs.)

Variable brush sizes is definitely something I want to do as well.

I like the copy/paste idea/mirroring ideas.

I'm not sure about the usefulness of a fill tool, given that the world is saved in a grid format, each element corresponding to 8 pixels. This means that you'd only be able to fill an area with 8x8 tiles, so it doesn't seem like a very useful tool. It might have a use in quickly painting backgrounds in a house, for example, but it's one of those extras that might get added once everything else is done.

Cheers for the feedback!

The blue tiles (and other colours, too, depending on map) are connectors - each modular piece has a connector, and depending on the rules set for each piece, it may be generated at the connector spot during world generation.