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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Maptastic - The clickable map creation kit

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Ched80
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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 10:27 Edited at: 13th Oct 2011 08:01

MAPTASTIC - The Clickable Map Creation Kit


Hello! I'd like to introduce you to Maptastic, a tool I have created for FPSC that helps you create a clickable Map HUD for your game so that the player can travel between different levels.

For example: You have built a game with three levels:
- A city (level 1),
- an airport (level 2) and
- a field (level 3).
Maptastic then modifies your final setuplevel.fpi so that the player can show up a map hud (showing the locations of the city, the airport and the field), click on the name of the location and load that level. If you have ever played Fallout3, the HUD works similar to the fast-travel feature within that game.

You will need to build a game with at least three levels for this to work and also create a map background and (optionally) some location marker images. Then open the tool, follow the steps and 'hey presto' your game will now be endowed with a clickable map HUD!

[EDIT 2011.07.31]
Version 1.3beta has the following features:
- Create map locations using HUDText or HUDImages.
- Map locations can have different Images depending on whether the player is currently at the location. Alternatively text can be used to indicate locations.
- More than one location can load the same level number.
- Up to 100 locations can be added to a map.
- Trigger Map display by Custom Variable or Key Code.
- Restrict location HUD visibility via variables.
- Includes 5 Map Backgrounds (Mars and Space image credit to ESA).

FPSC v118 is required.
Download v1.3 BETA
EDIT 2011.10.13
Download User Manual

EDIT 2011.08.21
short video of the end result of using Maptastic


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Leongamerz
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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 10:41
Hey thanks.Will test it out

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 11:26
Sounds nice, It will be good for Role Playing Games
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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 19:27
This is an awesome idea for a program. Very original and extremely useful. Just played around with the program a bit, havent actually tried a build yet, I'll let ya know how it goes when I do

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 19:44
Now there is some outside-the-box thinking. Good work.

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 20:04
Excellent idea! I also don't have game to test this on but I was playing around with it and ran into a glitch. I clicked to add an image (it wants a BMP) and selected one. The program then told me that the image was not in the FPSC directory and that it had to be. Now it's stuck in a loop and won't let me cancel. When I click cancel it gives me the message again and when I click OK, it want's me to select an image again. I can't even CTRL/ALT/DELETE! I CAN'T CANCEL!

Your code does not take into account the cancel option. Also, I notice that the title of your OpenFileDialog is "Save As" when it should be "Open file" or a more relevant name. Attention to detail.

I'll be watching this.

Brian.

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 20:56
Thanks for the kind words!

I'll fix that annoying select file loop - it was something i added last minute this morning (slaps forehead).

I'll post a new version when its fixed and when i've added a new feature that will only display locations if they've been visited before.

I'm also going to pack it with some background map HUDs and a few custom scripts.

Thanks again.

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 22:10
Nice work Ched80 def something diffrent to add to your games.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 01:52
Very nice tool, not that I'd expect less.


Cheers.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 04:35
Cool

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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 04:52
Can we see any final builds of this? Like it being used in game? Thanks!

Oh, and great idea by the way! This will help a lot of people!

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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 08:11
Fixed the annoying image file selection loop and posted the download for the new version in the OP. It's now packed with 5 sample map backgrounds (although I haven't tested these).

I'll try and get some screen shots and maybe a vid of the Map in action and post them this evening.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 07:49
Didn't manage to get the screenies as I discovered some additional bugs.

All should be fixed in v1.2 availble now.

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hi sorry to sound naive, but how do you open the map in game? i selected key code and its default is openmap, i was wondering how you type this in?

sorry if i am sounding stupid,
Many thanks
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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 13:36
Hi Nathan,
That's not a silly question, it's something I should have accounted for. When you select "Key" instead of "Variable" you need to define which "Key code" you want to trigger the map to appear. So you'll need to replace "OpenMap" with "50" or whatever key code you want. "50" is the key code for "M" by the way.
In the next version I'll make it so that when you select "Key" it automatically changes "OpenMap" to "50".

If you want to change it manually, open up you setuplevel.fpi, find the line "keypressed=OpenMap 1" and change "OpenMap" to "50".

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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 13:47
Am I to understand that if I'm on level 1 and I pull up the map it won't let me go to, say, level 5, but if I'm on level 5, it will let me go to levels 1-5, but not 6 and onward? Then if I jump back to 1 will it still let me go up to 5 but not past that? I sure hope so

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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 14:00
@Wraith Staff,
Sadly you cannot do what you want with the current version I've released. Currently, if you are on a particular level it will let you travel to all levels, except the level you are on.

I'm currently working on an update that will let you restrict access to levels so that what you have described is possible.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 21:27
Just a bump to announce 1.3.

The number of locations has been reduced from 1,000 to 100 due to the introduction of a new location restriction feature. This new feature allows the developer to prevent locations from being accessed unless a custom variable condition is met.

For example, you can limit access to locations, if the player has not visited them before, or has not completed a specific task. Adjustment of the custom variable must be done via additional scripting within the levels themselves.

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Posted: 21st Aug 2011 14:40
Just a little bump to say i've made a short clip of the end result of using Maptastic.

Enjoy.

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Posted: 21st Aug 2011 23:51
Wow...this is incredibly cool! I wonder if this might work in x10 or what it would take to make it work. I'll spend some time with it and see.

Very creative...absolutely love this idea.
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2011 00:06
It looks very impressive - but it doesn't allow to "reload" levels the player allready visited, or does it?

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2011 00:41
Hello Ched80,


You have done a very good work and useful as well, congratulations.

Cheers.

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2011 07:45
@srealist, I do have x10 so I not totally sure of the fpi command set or the setuplevel.fpi. As long as x10 has the following script commands it should work:
"nextlevel=", "levelnotequalto=", "levelequalto=", "hudtext=", "hudsize=", "hudfont=", "varequal="

@The Storeyteller 01, if be 'reload' you mean keeping enemies previously killed, killed, then no, this tool will not do that. Entity management, such as this, would need to be done by additional scripts. All this tool does it allow you to load up any level using a map.

@Northern - cheers.

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@Ched80, I will pass these along to Budo and see if he can implement them in a future beta of Mystic Mod.

Thank you!
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this is not working, it does not show the mapback and it does not go to any other levels when I click on them.
Do you know what I am doing wrong?

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Posted: 16th Sep 2011 19:15
Looks very nice!

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@Keith, Cheers.

@angusm3, could you send me your modified setuplevel.fpi so i can check it?

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This is a great very useful idea

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okay, here you go ched:


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Great idea and opens up more gameplay alternatives.
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@angusm3, it looks like you've got 2 sets of MAP HUDs in your setup file. Try deleting the old set of HUDs.

I'm guessing you tested one build game, then went back to Maptastic and changed somethings? Maptastic currently doesn't check the setup file to see if it's been altered already. I'll work on improving the code so that previously altered setup files doen't cause problems.

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Congrats on the nice work. Watched the video and was impressed.
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@X Games, Kilgore and Defy - Thanks.

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Looks cool!

btw. what's that song? i can't get it out of my head

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@Bestorio, it's "Over and Over" by "Hot Chip" - glad you like it.

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Ched
This is a fantastic tool.Really great job!
Can I use this in my project?
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@0Alemar0, thanks and of course you can use it - there are no restrictions for this tool, you can use it on whatever you like.

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This is perfect for my upcoming game!

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Hello Ched! When I try opening maptastic,it says, something along the lines of (looking for roxio creator starter)
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@Wicked Blood Gaming, that's an odd one, the program should be self contained - what OS are you running?

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Ched80, i'm from Finland and i think that the singer says "leipää"
Which is "Bread" in finnish -> that is why i was confused...

Actually i think they say "laid back" not sure...

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I'm running Windows 7 64bit
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I'm running widows 7 64bit
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@WBG, that is very strange - I'm running W7-64bit and it works fine - Have you tried re-downloading it? Failing that I can only think that you may need some of the VB files that I have.

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Added to the 3rd-Party Tools list in the Master Sticky. Nice work!

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@ ched can u make a small tutorial to help me get started i installed maptastic but kinda dont understand exactly what to do? at the menus that would be so helpfull!!

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@sic1ne, sure a UM would be useful for everyone - I'll get on to it.

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@ ched thanks dude this is an awsome app!!!!!!!

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Yet again great work ched! I presume this took a bit of fpi scripting in fpsc?

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Ched, this is awesome. I'm going to find a way to work this into a game, somehow. It's too cool to not use! Very, very nice.

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