So this will by my introduction. hello community. I need your help.
so the game I created is a platforming game. for which I designed a external level editor in c++.
my theory is. I can really only fit one level into the pico 8 map editor.
but if I parse my map data as a string, despite adding a few extra thousand lines of code to my file, I will at least have a streamlined way to create and import levels. so far the level editor works great. I tell it how big I want the map and then once I have placed all my tiles I can save it to a text which just writes the x, y position and a type variable. 3 variables in total. so my output file ends up looking something like this
x y t 0 8 0 1 8 0 3 8 0 2 8 0 4 8 0 6 9 0 7 10 0 9 12 0 11 9 3 13 8 0 15 8 0 17 7 0 18 6 0 |
there has GOT to be a way to parse this data. in regular lua it would be something like
platforms={}
function _makeplatform(x,y,t)
pf.t=t
pf.x=x
pf.y=y
end
function load_platforms(s)
local str = s
for line in string.gmatch(str, "%.+\n" do -- for every line in the string
for a,b,c in string.gmatch(line, "(%d+)(%d+)(%d+)") do --for every number in the line
pf =_makeplatform(a,b,c)
add(pf, platforms)
end
end
k = 0
end
level1 =[[
--copy and paste level output here
]]
function _init()
load_platforms(level1)
end |
the big kick in the pants being string.gmatch() not being in pico8.
the good news is, I can basically output this information any way I want since I authored the editor. but whats the nicest way to have pico8 read it in?
my best guess with sub() is to make each number 4 chars long so '2' would be '0002'. that way I can iterate through every 4 numbers. not sure if I like the sound of that solution. so here I am.
this is the level editor.
and here is a very early release of my game. please excuse me for not uploading it to BBS. I am still figuring all this out but I swear once the game is playable again I will put it there.
EDIT:
I just added a Work in progress version of the game to BBS. so maybe it will become more clear what I am trying to accomplish. pease feel free to check it out.
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