Excerpt from tile save file
1|grass|a|(25, 25)
2|stone|a|(75, 25)
3|grass|a|(125, 25)
4|grass|a|(175, 25)
5|grass|b|(225, 25)
6|grass|a|(275, 25)
7|grass|a|(325, 25)
8|grass|a|(375, 25)
9|grass|a|(425, 25)
10|grass|b|(475, 25)
11|grass|b|(525, 25)
12|grass|a|(575, 25)
13|wood|a|(625, 25)
14|grass|a|(675, 25)
15|grass|a|(725, 25)
16|grass|b|(775, 25)
17|grass|a|(825, 25)
18|wood|b|(875, 25)
19|wood|a|(925, 25)
20|grass|a|(975, 25)
21|grass|b|(1025, 25)
22|wood|a|(1075, 25)
23|grass|a|(1125, 25)
24|grass|a|(1175, 25)
25|grass|a|(1225, 25)
26|grass|a|(1275, 25)
The tiles are stored in this format for now, so if you ever want to change the type of a certain tile (you big cheater) then just edit the wood/grass/stone entry in the save file (/township-pre-alpha/saves/1/tiles.twn). Never change the tuple of numbers though, or you will run the risk of messing your map up.
The code for saving this is really simple...
# Save tiles
tileFile = open('./saves/' + str(mapnumber) + '/tiles.twn', 'w')
for tile in tiles:
tosave = str(tile.id) + '|' + str(tile.type) + '|' + str(tile.variation) + '|' + str(tile.center) + '\n'
tileFile.write(tosave)
Other things like buildings, creeps and villagers are stored in a similar format.
Sorry for not yet updating the .zip, its exam time atm so I was revising instead of having free time.
Also, the creeps only work slightly better, in that they tend to move rather than jitter now, but they still aren't reliable. I'm going to totally recode them sometime. Probably after saving/loading is working and I update the zip.
Making buildings placeable! They snap to the tile grid, to make pathfinding around/to them work properly. Sadly, this means no more free rotation of buildings. Walls will be built tile by tile now, rather than with preset lengths of wall, allowing for greater customisation of layout.
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/township/buildings8-7-12.png)
Next is the battle of making all the buildings do what they're supposed to based on a few lines in a text file ;D . Then some basic enemies to make it a game, along with smoothing out the menus somewhat and adding in the load/save screens. Followed by a release. The map settings screen I showed will wait until further down the line to be released, since linking in all the options I want to have would result in me never getting anything released at this rate :P . My aim at the moment is to make everything as customisable as possible, hopefully eventually (read once the game is enjoyable) allowing the player to 'design' their own soldiers by equipping them with different loadouts, and being able to save these as unit types that are trainable.
(http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/336300_10152360357590078_2034862983_o.jpg)
You could say that xD .
Horrible maths has beautiful results.
(http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/466766_10152363518820078_142078849_o.jpg)
(http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/327260_10152365776055078_1348934554_o.jpg)
(http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/333477_10152369814285078_1626635045_o.jpg)
(http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291631_10152370471530078_126756997_o.jpg)
(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/471404_10152373693560078_135834269_o.jpg)
Not very impressive at the moment, but here are some screens of the hex grid that is used as the 'continent map'. The next step is to turn this into a square grid at a much higher resolution, which will eventually become the actual terrain. Maybe preliminary screens of that tomorrow or the next day. Then once I have a basic implementation of the map working in this form, I think I will work on getting the game part of Township back to where it was in the original Python release. After that I will work on making the map generation more interesting and improving the gameplay somewhat.
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/twn01.png)
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/twn02.png)
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/twn03.png)
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/township/twn04.png)
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/township/twn06.png)
And for scale:
(http://www.sotk.co.uk/township/twn05.png)
(http://sotk.co.uk/township/mapgen01.png)
That's what I've got so far with this map generator, trees could use some work to render them less uniformly, and stop them being cut off by chunks below and to the right. This map is 256x256 tiles, but it can be infinite if I just figure out a neat way to generate chunks on the fly. That 181 is the fps I'm getting, which compared with about 30 fps on the old unfinished python version with a 200x200 map is quite an improvement...
I'm also still not happy with the rocks, maybe I'll switch back to tiles that are 32x32 pixels instead of 16x16.
I decided to make them less bright, and more smooth. I think they look much better now!
(http://sotk.co.uk/township/mapgen02.png)
Adding that graphical variation is the only improvement I've made so far sadly, but I do now have a clear picture in my head of how the infinite map will be implemented, I just have to get time to do it.
Infinite map screenshots!
(http://i.imgur.com/2a1jpqB.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/BaS6oxr.png)
Today's progress has mostly been the tile information panel thing, which is only there as a means to the end of me working out what tiles need and playing with yamlui's text labels really.
If you want to play with it and have Python (>=2.7) + Pygame (something recent-ish, idk) installed, you can get the code from GitHub (https://github.com/ColdrickSotK/township). You'll need to get yamlui (https://github.com/ColdrickSotK/yamlui) too and place it alongside mapgen.py though. There isn't much in the way of actual functionality yet though, its still pretty much just a map generator.