[HN Gopher] Show HN: Build your own isometric city
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Show HN: Build your own isometric city
Author : atum47
Score : 50 points
Date : 2020-10-26 04:58 UTC (18 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (victorribeiro.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (victorribeiro.com)
| breakfastduck wrote:
| Instantly blasted with SimCity 2000 nostalgia
| dmix wrote:
| Have you considered the default state being all grass/tree tiles?
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| That seems like a funner place to start to build the city around.
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| That might be a helpful option (if you think other people are
| going to use it of course, don't waste the dev cycles otherwise.
| atum47 wrote:
| not really. every time I build a city I start with the concrete
| tile.
| dmix wrote:
| True, it _is_ a city builder.
| atum47 wrote:
| Hi everyone, I've been working on this tile map editor for quite
| a while now.
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| I shared it here the other day, with no much success. Someone in
| the comments suggested to me that I would provide an example (a
| map and a texture) right out of the box, so people could try the
| tool.
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| Well, here is it.
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| click with the right button of the mouse and drag to pan
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| left click place a texture
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| paint bucket (b) - fills a whole area
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| eraser (e) - delete tile
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| eye dropper (d) - select a tile from the map
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| sava - saves the map as json
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| export - exports the map as PNG
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| please watch the videos if you're interested in learning more
| about the tool:
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| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm88UxHH2Olz...
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| Also please remember this is a work in progress.
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| source code here - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tileEditor
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| textures adapted from here -
| https://opengameart.org/content/simple-iso-city-work-in-prog...
| AlexDragusin wrote:
| Nice! May I suggest making the right click on a tile to erase
| the tile? Played with it for a while and I think that would add
| to a better flow.
| withinboredom wrote:
| This is pretty cool!
| atum47 wrote:
| thanks
| antoineMoPa wrote:
| Undo/redo would be super useful as I keep drawing the wrong
| tile every 10 seconds. (Or I need to be more patient)
| atum47 wrote:
| yeah, great suggestion. I was going to do that and end up
| forgetting. I'll add to the to do list right now.
| nikkwong wrote:
| It's neat! What do you imagine the use cases being?
| atum47 wrote:
| I was using it to design a city for a game. Now I don't even
| know anymore. I find it very relaxing to place blocks and build
| stuff.
| Shared404 wrote:
| > Now I don't even know anymore. I find it very relaxing to
| place blocks and build stuff.
|
| Seems like a pretty good use case to me.
| ianbicking wrote:
| Following the link to other tilesets, tiles appear to be
| distributed with no meaningful metadata at all...? For instance
| look at https://opengameart.org/content/lpc-tile-atlas2 - it's on
| a grid, but just a total mishmash of sizes, with some intended to
| line up. And that doesn't even include the orientation or the
| real-world physical size they are intended to represent.
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| It's a ton of awesome art in there, and seems like a huge effort
| to make use of it!
| atum47 wrote:
| by the way, if you read the source code you'll notice that I
| was design this to be used with multiple textures (when
| creating a new brush you still have to specify the tile size).
| I totally gave up on that by now.
| atum47 wrote:
| there's not a single day that I visit open art I get inspired
| to design a new game. really gorgeous art that people
| distribute for free. I thought it was only fair that my tool
| was also distribute for free, so people could use with this
| kind of art
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