Levels to gmaps

excaliber7388 · #1 04-30-2006, 01:49 AM

Okay, basically, I made DR without the use of the level generator. Not, on gs2, it worked fine as a 'gmap' however, on V4, it doesn't work. It's also messed up the time scripts which use 'onmap'. So basicall, I'm asking if there is any way to convert these levels to a gmap?

xAndrewx · #2 04-30-2006, 10:42 AM

They're already a GMAP. All you need to make is the GMAP file. Simply copy/paste the levels in the order that they're linked and the width/height of the levels.

excaliber7388 · #3 04-30-2006, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by xAndrewx

They're already a GMAP. All you need to make is the GMAP file. Simply copy/paste the levels in the order that they're linked and the width/height of the levels.

I'll try again, maybe I messed up, but I already have a list of the levels, in order, in a gmap file, with width and height, as well as something like gmaps=darkrival.gmap in the server options. So I must have done something wrong in the making of the txt file (.gmap)

Andy0687 · #4 04-30-2006, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by excaliber7388

as well as something like gmaps=darkrival.gmap in the server options.

I dont know if it will make that big of a diffrence but the .gmap extension is not needed in "gmaps="

excaliber7388 · #5 04-30-2006, 09:51 PM

x_X nope. Then again the outsides have changed a bit since I first made the levels txt file, and the height and width have probably changed as well. x_X is there an easier way other than walking around the server and figuring out how wide/tall it is, or is there some way I can generate a txt file and map. (M in editor never worked right x_X) (list index out of bounds is the most recent complaint)

Andy0687 · #6 05-01-2006, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by excaliber7388

x_X nope. Then again the outsides have changed a bit since I first made the levels txt file, and the height and width have probably changed as well. x_X is there an easier way other than walking around the server and figuring out how wide/tall it is, or is there some way I can generate a txt file and map. (M in editor never worked right x_X) (list index out of bounds is the most recent complaint)

No I dont think there is, but on ProjectR we had a problem when updating a second gmap onto the server. Dunno how long its been going on for but Silent said something about restarting gserver when you add new gmaps to gmaps=

Unrelated responce probably, I dont really do gmaps, Sephiroth is the one who made our maps.

excaliber7388 · #7 05-01-2006, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Andy0687

No I dont think there is, but on ProjectR we had a problem when updating a second gmap onto the server. Dunno how long its been going on for but Silent said something about restarting gserver when you add new gmaps to gmaps=

Unrelated responce probably, I dont really do gmaps, Sephiroth is the one who made our maps.

I've tried that before too

DR's a little understaffed, the old version of a Gmap was easy, but for v4, it hasn't worked

Prozac · #8 05-01-2006, 10:43 PM

for sanstrata classic, of course 5 years ago we saved them all as .graal files.
well, we resaved them all as .nw files, but then all the ow level links were not from the 0 to 64 on the edges, they were like from 1 to 63 on some places.
so, to make it faster,
I used levelgen to make a blank level set with the same width and height as the sanstrata map.
Then I used my hosted website and uploaded the old converted .nw files and the blank levle set, and wrote a program in perl to read the level definition from the old levels (using the old bigmap.txt) tile definitions, since .nw can be read as a text file, and then overwrote the blank grass with the level set with the correct tile definitions.
Thus all that was left to do was to recreate the warps to the insides of the houses and change all the house inside to ow warps to be to the right file name, as the x and y are the same.

at least, that was the easiest way to do it that i could think of ...

excaliber7388 · #9 05-02-2006, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Prozac

for sanstrata classic, of course 5 years ago we saved them all as .graal files.
well, we resaved them all as .nw files, but then all the ow level links were not from the 0 to 64 on the edges, they were like from 1 to 63 on some places.
so, to make it faster,
I used levelgen to make a blank level set with the same width and height as the sanstrata map.
Then I used my hosted website and uploaded the old converted .nw files and the blank levle set, and wrote a program in perl to read the level definition from the old levels (using the old bigmap.txt) tile definitions, since .nw can be read as a text file, and then overwrote the blank grass with the level set with the correct tile definitions.
Thus all that was left to do was to recreate the warps to the insides of the houses and change all the house inside to ow warps to be to the right file name, as the x and y are the same.

at least, that was the easiest way to do it that i could think of ...

Ah yes, why didn't that come to me?

Pretty cool though. Still have that program somewhere?

Prozac · #10 05-03-2006, 04:38 AM

hm i forgot where i posted it. and im sure theres probably an easier way. anyways thats the algorithm ... so now u can use c++ or basic or something to do it

excaliber7388 · #11 05-03-2006, 03:39 PM

Any tips on how to write it (basics, I plan to do it in C++)

petro1212 · #12 05-04-2006, 01:03 PM

You could ofcourse bother to copy them from map to map in level editor. I did this for N-pulse a while ago (not a huge overworld) anyhow this will hardly cost you a few hours. Ducati also did it (with a way bigger OW) anyhow just try it...

And as for GMAP questions.... there are tons of FAQ/Walktroughs and how-to posts/threads on these forums & in the Graal Bible

You might even want to try and use Rick's GMAP naming system...

Malinko · #13 05-08-2006, 08:32 PM

You want to re-name the level files to something else along with links and then make those into a GMAP file?

Stefan has a program for that somewhere, of course, if this is what is wanted to do.

excaliber7388 · #14 05-08-2006, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Malinko

You want to re-name the level files to something else along with links and then make those into a GMAP file?

Stefan has a program for that somewhere, of course, if this is what is wanted to do.

Anything to get a gmap with the current OW
and it would take MUCh more than a few hours to convert DR by hand, it's a huge OW with a lot of links on it.

Malinko · #15 05-09-2006, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Anything to get a gmap with the current OW
and it would take MUCh more than a few hours to convert DR by hand, it's a huge OW with a lot of links on it.

Hm, alright.

One question before I can assist with that though.

So for example, let's have a 2x2 overworld map.

"darkrival_town1-0.nw","darkrival_town1-1.nw"
"darkrival_forest1-0.nw","darkrival_forest1-1.nw"

Then it's wished to convert those levels into a GMAP.

"dr_a01.nw","dr_b01.nw"
"dr_a02.nw","dr_b02.nw"

Of course, this can be optimized to create a GMAP file and have it loaded on Dark Rival.

GRMAP001
WIDTH 2
HEIGHT 2
MAPIMG dr_bigmap.png
MINIMAPIMG dr_minimap.png
LEVELNAMES
"dr_a01.nw","dr_b01.nw"
"dr_a02.nw","dr_b02.nw"
LEVELNAMESEND

Then can be saved as dr.gmap in Notepad or some word editor.

Though, this is what is wanted, right? Oh, and note, it will change the links within the level, so don't need to stress out about that, but might have to change links to "inside" levels.

Of course, the first example I provided

"darkrival_town1-0.nw","darkrival_town1-1.nw"
"darkrival_forest1-0.nw","darkrival_forest1-1.nw"

can be converted into a GMAP.

I guess it depends on what is wished to do, from personal peference. You can attach the current map file and I'm sure I or someone else here will convert it into a GMAP file and attach it on the forums, then it can be learned how to do.