automap tile

[bongobeat]

Hello there,

I wonder if someone can explain how to make a custom automap tile? Like the void automap.
I want to make lava that is shown on the automap.

[Isaac]

Are you asking how to make map-graphics, or how to define a map-tile like the ones used in the editor to draw map terrain?

*Mentioning the void tile, has me thinking you mean the latter. What you seek is defined in tiles.lua; in the LoG2 asset pack. You can add your own.
Example:

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defineTile{
	name = "mine_floor_grass",
	editorIcon = 192,
	color = {50,140,50,255},
	builder = "dungeon",
	heightmapMaterial = "swamp_ground_02",
	floor = {
		"swamp_grass_01", 1,
	},
	ceiling = {
		"mine_moss_ceiling_01", 1,
		"mine_moss_ceiling_02", 1,
		"mine_moss_ceiling_03", 1,
	},
	wall = {
		"mine_elevation_edge", 1,
	},
	moveSound = "party_move_grass",
}

(Direct from wiki)
https://github.com/JKos/log2doc/wiki/As ... netiledesc

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defineTile(desc)

Defines a new tile for Dungeon Editor or replases an existing definition. desc is a table with the following fields:

name:the name of the tile to define or replace.
editorIcon:index of the icon in Dungeon Editor tile atlas.
color:(optional) color of the editor icon, e.g. {255,255,255,255} is solid white.
randomFloorFacing:(optional) a boolean, when true facing of spawned floor objects will be randomized.
solid:(optional) a boolean, if true the square is solid wall.
diggable:(optional) a boolean, if true the square can be digged.
underwater:(optional) a boolean, if true the square is under water.
heightmapMaterial:(optional) material name for heightmap building.
heightmapMaterialPriority:(optional) priority for heightmap material blending. Higher priority materials blends over low priority materials.
builder:(optional) type of geometry builder, “dungeon” or “mine”.
floor:(optional) a table of floor object names and their relative probabilities. See below.
wall:(optional) a table of wall object names and their relative probabilities. See below.
pillar:(optional) a table of pillar object names and their relative probabilities. See below.
centerPillar:(optional) a table of pillar object names to be placed in the center of cells and their relative probabilities for mine builder. See below.
ceiling:(optional) a table of ceiling object names and their relative probabilities. See below.
ceilingShaft:(optional) the name of the object automatically spawned if there’s a pit above.
ceilingEdgeVariations:(optional) a boolean, if set ceiling objects use 16 different variations for all possible configurations of adjacent tiles. A bitmask _XXXX will be appended to ceiling object name, where each bit is either 0 (adjancent tile is empty space) or 1 (adjacent tile is solid).
automapTile:(optional) the name of the automap tile: “ground”, “grassy_ground”, “water”, “wall”, “rocky_wall”, “trees” or “chasm”
moveSound:(optional) the name of sound played when the party walks on the tile.

The tables referred above contain lists of objects and their probabilities that are used to randomly pick up pieces for generating the levels. At every odd table index there must be a valid object name. At every even table index there must be a number that indicates the relative probability of the object.

For example, the following would generate a wall drain approximately every 50th generated wall:

[bongobeat]

I'm talking about the terrain that you see on the map.

Like the chasm tile on this map, I want to use a custom one, that use a "chasm" tile that is red. I suppose you have to make a new king of automapTile, but I don't know how. I know how to do a map graphic, but not an automap that act like the chasm.

[minmay]

Custom automap tiles are not supported. Your only options are MapGraphicsComponent or writing your own automap from scratch.

[bongobeat]

hum ok, I guess this is too complex for me! I'm gonna keep the chasm automap then.

thanks for your answers!

[AndakRainor]

Is there a way to "reset" the revealed tiles of a map? (let's say I change everything in a map and the automap becomes totally wrong, and I want the player to start over exploring it as if it was an entirely new level)

[Isaac]

I suspect that this is not open to the scripting interface; likely only Petri (or perhaps minmay) would know for certain.

Barring a built in option, I think you would have to script your own automap feature.

I once used custom automap tiles to occlude part of the map, affording a limited fog-of-war over a small area; it crudely exposed itself as the player explored it.

[zimberzimber]

Bongobeat - You can mimic it by creating empty objects that only have a map graphics for each possible tile, and placing them manually

Is there a way to "reset" the revealed tiles of a map? (let's say I change everything in a map and the automap becomes totally wrong, and I want the player to start over exploring it as if it was an entirely new level)

A crappy workaround would be clearing the entire map of everything, and teleporting the party all over the map

[AndakRainor]

Is there a way to "reset" the revealed tiles of a map? (let's say I change everything in a map and the automap becomes totally wrong, and I want the player to start over exploring it as if it was an entirely new level)

A crappy workaround would be clearing the entire map of everything, and teleporting the party all over the map

Ahah! A very creative crappy workaround I didn't even think about it!

[kelly1111]

Really wish there was a way to disable the automap. I have my dungeon designed in a way that it uses stairs on the same editor level that connect to eachother, creating the illusion of depth (but saving levels in the editor) ... and the autmap completly destroys the inmersion.

Right now I have a document (and a scroll ingame at the start that strongly suggests using old school game mode) ... and another thing is, I have my maps at a larger scale than the original 32 x 32 size, they are 50 x 50

Any suggestions or workarounds are welcome !

also another question I would really like to have answered:
does it matter to have say 40 levels of 32 x 32 map size or 20 levels of 64 x 64 map size? impact wise in the game.. ? ( I read somewhere that the game only loads the above 3 levels and the below 3 levels that the party is at ... dont know where I got that from)

and another question is... would this be possible: (levels are directly below eachother)
first level 32 x32
second level 32 x 32
third level 42 x 42
fourth level 52 x 52
... in other words of I create say 20 levels of 64x 64 in size but say in the last few levels I use only a little bit of space for rooms / floors... does it matter If a have alot space open for game performance?