Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 1.4 Creating games

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

For some answes\rs, see blow.

Erik.

 

Van: Charles Strong [mailto:men...@gm...] 
Verzonden: zaterdag 15 januari 2011 21:24
Aan: rai...@li...
Onderwerp: Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 1.4 Creating games

 

I've got svn with eclipse. I'm not sure how to compile it after making
changes or what steps I should do with it.

 

EV: I always set Eclipse to autocompile on save.

 

Also I've been editing the XML files to create new games. I'm having some
major bugs and/or issues.

 

When I copy a game then I can only use tiles from the game I copied. Once I
try putting in a tile from a different game then my tile manifest will show
zero tiles available and I can't start public companies on that tile if it's
a city tile. Even when I edit tiles.xml file it won't show the changes.

 

EV: You need to change both Tiles.xml and TileSet.xml. Best is to start with
the latter, and then fill the game-specific Tiles.xml with copies of the
corresponding  tile definitions  from the generic Tiles.xml (under tiles).
You can also generate Tiles.xml from TileSet.xml with class
tools.MakeGameTileSets.  Or I can do that for you, as well as create any new
tiles that are not yet included  in the generic Tiles.xml.

 

I think the problem is in the game.xml file. When I copy over an existing
game like 1830 and then change the game name to something like 18Test the
game won't start up and it errors out. If I keep it at 1830 but change the
gamelist.xml file then it shows up in the menu as 18Test but with the
problems above. 

 

EV: You need to do both.

 

I guess the question is how do I start a game from scratch? And if this
isn't possible how do I pull in tiles from other games if I copy a game
over? This has been very frustrating.