During the revision of the Save routines I thought about which paths I should offer in the SaveAs dialog. After some time back and forth and testing around, I decided to add a scenario (or also ‘Main Game’) selector to the ‘Create New Playfield’ block. This would have been intended for a later release, but it seemed to be a good idea to integrate it right away. 🙂 It’s still…
, Dev Blog: New Custom RandomPlayfield SaveAsDialog & Refactoring
I’m still in the process of converting the entire framework around the editors and the main interface to MVVM. There are still some routines that need to be adapted. But altogether, I’m making good progress. Recently I was busy adjusting the Save/SaveAs routines. This required a new SaveAs dialog for RandomPlayfields. Here you can choose which file parts you want to save, i.e. Static, Dynamic or Both (=Default). Since these…
, Dev Blog: Under the Hood
At the moment I am working on the substructure of EPD. Nothing to show off in a big way. When I started to code EPD, I was just beginning to learn WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). Over the years I’ve gotten to know new development patterns and have partly implemented them already. The major part of EPD, however, still doesn’t use modern design patterns yet. If you have something to do…
, Dev Blog: Added ‘Create New Playfield…’ Mechanics & Closing of Editors
Today I added the mechanics for creating fresh playfields. Therefore I needed a new ComboBox in order to beeing able to select fixed respectively random playfield types. It seems that the new ‘Create Playfield’ mechanics work fine so far. I also added a (mock) title bar to the editors with a closing button. Now you can create, open & close the two new editors as you want. Next up: A…
, Dev Blog: RandomEditor and new Unified UI
Development is progressing rapidly. It looks more and more like this is going to be a major rework. I have now integrated both the Random Editor and the old Fixed Editor interfaces into the main window. They are all separate modules now, that can be loaded and unloaded from the UI. When you now open a fixed playfield yaml, the FixedPlayfieldEditor module is loaded into the user interface. And also…
, Dev Blog: New Random Playfield Editor coming up
I finally decided to overhaul the current Dynamic Editor and go for a new Random Playfield Editor. After the first ~100 builds the result looks quite ok. Of course, I still have to test all internal Playfield connections and then adjust the read/write code, then sooner or later the preflight, and so on. But I’m cautiously confident that everything will work as I imagine it will. This new editor will…
, EPD v1.64.0 Build 2054 is out!
New Preflight is coming along well. I tought, I release a WIP version for you to see and give feedback. There’s some chance, that there are some regressions as Preflight is pretty much woven into Playfield mechanics. CHANGED: New Preflight: Total rework of Preflight engine to make creating new preflights more modular and easy to understand. New batch of preflight checks (Dronebasesetup, PlanetVesselSetup, BiomeCluster texture setup). Now also supporting status…
, Welcome to EmpyrionTools.org
Home of Empyrion Playfield Designer – EPD Here you will find information about the tools I created for the Space Survival Game Emyprion – Galactic Survival. Most importantly about EPD – Empyrion Playfield Designer. A tool for creating and editing the playfield.yaml files the game uses as playfields – a level editor – you can say. 0