Keen: Modding

Draik · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 71

Right, so I'm writing a Crystal Caves level editor, and it's written in C++ using SDL (Win32 with MinGW, in case it helps). And for some reason it won't compile this perfectly reasonable line of code:

CommanderSpleen · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:41 am Post subject:

How is that screen variable defined? I deal with Allegro, so SDL is outside of my experience.

You are missing a semicolon at the end of the statement. But the rest looks fine. The screen part at the beginning seems to be the problem. Are you sure you need to apply the return value of SDL_SetVideoMode to it?

Draik · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 71

Well, it's not the semicolon. But yes, SDL_SetVideoMode returns a pointer to an SDL_Surface. I'll just rewrite the code from scratch, and see if that fixes it. :P

levellass · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:13 pm Post subject:

Interesting. I take it you found the level data. However, since it's in the executable, does this mean all the levels cannot be larger in size than the originals, or did you find a way around this?

KeenRush · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

I think every level in CC has the exactly same size -- I don't think the dimensions even can be changed.

By the way, it's about time there'll be an editor for this game, definitely going to use it. :)

Draik · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 71

lemm found it, the discussion page for CC at the ModdingWiki has his findings. And yeah, the dimensions are fixed (as in, unchangeable, not hacked so we can change level size).

levellass · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:23 am Post subject:

Aaah, I see now. So the levels are uncompressed and of a fixed size, which would make editing easier. I was worried they would be compressed or of variable size, which would mean there was a 'limit' you couldn't exceed.

I would be interested in the progress of this project. I have coded a small program to edit the fullscreen images, which I haven't seen anywhere else if you want to add that to your editor code (The modding wiki has the PCX format now.) which should allow full graphical modding now.

gerstrong · Joined: 25 Jan 2009 Posts: 51