Posted by Tom, 2010-01-28 Permalink Latest posts List of all posts
While working on a new iteration of the "campaign progress" map I realized that I was doing way too much manual work in Photoshop.
The process was fairly simple, involving drawing a 2D straight top-down layout of a city map, then rotating it, scaling and manipulating it to be a pseudo-3D isometric view. Specific parts of the map are highlighted as the player progresses through the game.
Wait.
What!?
Doing actual work?
No way.
So I whipped up an in-game editor that handled the isometric view using a realtime camera mapping, projecting the mouse cursor position correctly into the map and back and allowed for easy placement of ready-made buildings on the map. Immediate feedback, WYSIWYG editing and last but not least: lower memory requirements. Much better! This quickly turned a chore into fun. Now actually saving it for the rainy days.
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