I’ve been working away on the map editor for CW2 for the last couple of weeks. It’s bunches of work to get it ready and stable for general release, but I can finally see that the end of the work is nearing.
One of the things I have worked hard to add is custom graphics support. This initially means custom background tiles. You might not think this is really a big deal, but the results can look pretty different. The game even feels different when playing with alternate graphics. Enjoy this shot of a quick little game I threw together using some custom tiles I call “blueprint”.
That’s cool! Will you be able to change the look of the buildings/Creeper?
Also IDK if this is already done, but can we customize are anti-creeper color, because white & grey, not so fun anymore…..
I can’t wait for the custom maps and editor to come out this looks pretty cool also in the last game a had a little problem downloading customs games since my computer dosen’t know how to ddownload the files if anybody could help me.
Can we please please please have the ability to play with custom graphics on/off. Some really great maps in CW1 were ruined by beyond crappy backgrounds!!
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this sound awesome. though there will be problems if people make really anoying/crappy ones. will it ever be posible to make, like texture packs-replace all the graphics nigame for all missions, instead of just a custom map? THAT would be cool.
Do you have an accupall realease date yet? other then that it does look awesome!
i know it is extremely early,but when will you be taking general ideas for the plot of cw3?
He’s planning on doing something for chopraider first I believe… And yes, when 2 just realeased is way to early
how are you guys able to download maps on CW1 for custom
Can someone really help me. My computer isn’t able to download CWM files properly and i can’t find an applictation that can. can someone help me find one.
Add custom graphics for the creeper.
Then it will be possible to show a hidden picture from a creeper.
Different creeper intensity show a different picture.
Same good creeper.
This way you can do comics alive.
For example, with a flowing bad creeper show you bad warrior advancing and good creeper show a warrior who resists.
hey sorry for asking for help i finally found out how to import maps so im fine for CW2 if you need help though message me on the forums my name is Flameo326.
Looks amazing for the ‘modders’ (in this case more of map makers). Anyways, can’t wait to work with it, thanks for the big effort you put in the map editor (:
That looks VERY nice. Throw in skins for the LS, weapons, buildings and maybe missiles and blaster shots and you’ve got yourself a ‘theme pack’.
its awesome!
when can we make maps?
It would be useful to have an option to replace all textures in the game with a alternate texture pack, so you can play all the existing missions with the new textures, without having to open, save, and import all of the textures into each and every mission.
That’s a cool idea! i love it! you could make maps, but you could also make themes, using them on whatever map you wanted! nice!
I second this idea. Maybe also make another tab with texture packs, like maps, so we could rate them and have them all sorted out.
Wow. Now THAT is an idea worth considering. Hopefully Mr.Wall will take this seriously. I know I would!
i have ideas that are from the t-shirt thingie please respon virgilw!
• i think
1. the upgrades for weapons should be 5 instead of 3
2. the dark beam should have 3 levels, easy, medium, and heavy, easy will attack low creeper but not dense if its dense it will PUSH the beam back. same with medium. exept it can beat like medium creeper. if its heavy it will destroy ANYTHING.
3. the lib. ship should have turrets for itself but it should be upgrade and there should be like range for the turret, speed for the lib. ship and fire rate for the turret plz respond
okok ive done missions that the creeper starts off like b4 i can even do anything (like some code missions) so the turrets on the lib ship should have VERY LOW range
the dark beam easy mode takes less ammo medium is medium ammo and heavy take like right now type ammo.
yes the 5 upgrades would increase lag but the speed and range should be 5 though. plz respond
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And the lib ship turrets shouldnt hold creeper back for long just till we are able to make blasters or other wapons
• I HAVE AN EXELENT IDEA!!!!. Ok you know how Emitter give bad creeper, right? We should have our own Emitters. They will cost 200 or 300 enrgy and will take alot of ammo packets, but it won’t need ore!
• Ok I have one thats the best. Dark Beam destroy anything in their path (exept dark mirrors), right? On the micro lifts there should be
1. Like diffrent channels so we dont need that many dark mirrors (it would exit the rift going the same way)
or
2. There should be Micro-Dark Passages that ONLY DARK BEAM GO THROUGH.
like i said plz respond virgilw!
…You’re trolling right?
Almost all of those changes would completely destroy the perfect balance virgilw has already set up. Seriously. The only idea worth a squirt there is light turrets on the Liberation Ship.
I’m not even sure of that… I mean, on one level (in story, I don’t remember any details), you must fly underground and set up repulsars & shields before the little things decay. If the liberation ship had turrets, I could maneuver it beneath, and helpthe repulsars! Isn’t that what blasters do?
-And wouldn’t it be hard to program the right amount of energy usage? Oh, and how would the supply of packets work? It’s Instant, because they’re on the same point!
you have to post it on the FORUM!
When is it being realsed for puplic use?
i can´t wait no longer please do it fast please please please please please please PLEASE
LITSEN I DONT HAVE A FORUM ACCOUNT OK IM ONLY 10!
THEN MAKE ONE! I had accounts since i was 8 and im 15 now!
amen to that I am 12
When I checked the blog and saw a map editor post, I cheered. But no, it’s not out yet. 🙁
Still, it looks promising. Custom tiles will be sweeeeet.
Good work, Virgil! Keep it up! 😀
(Also, I <3 my picture when I post here. Totally unrelated, I know.)
my mom wont let me
@Virgilw do you have a hopeful realse date like 1-2 weeks or something like that
I am targeting a release this month (July). The map editor itself isn’t far from completion. Beta members are already making some very interesting maps with it. But, I have to build the map hosting system and an interface for download and moderating maps. This will take a couple of weeks.
how do you decide who is a beta member? because i would really like to be one too!
When people vote you in who are beta. Don’t get people mad and post spam on the forums. It’s all about the forums.
@dylan posted these in th forum for you
ok thnx
@Virgilw ok. tell us when its almost done most of us can’t wait
@LanceChristophr: If custom backgrounds is so anyoing, just load the map up in the map editor and change it.
Cant do that to a custom map. It has to be resubmitted for approval. Once a map is saved and approved you have to play it how it is. Unless you dont want to submit a score then I guess you can change it to your hearts content.
Litsen virgil when I heard about creeper world 2 i almost blew up with exitement,when i heard the update 1 was almost one same thing. Now im literllay so exited i fell like im choking and about to blow up. hurry up with the custom maps. i need them to practice i might die of exitement. i use the eiditor to make a map that looks like the mission im on but easy then i get harder and harder until i ace it k?
*feel
Ok dylan we are all ready for the map editor but Virgilw can’t realse it untill its ready so be pacient and just wait
I CANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*explodes*
YAY He might be quiet now! 😀 JKJKJK
Virgil can you please post status updates every once in a while ,but dont fret about releasing updates really quickly people can be patient. Also Ontheworld (up in the comments said you are working on chopraider; if you are that is awesome! (it is one of the best gamese ever)
AHHHH I FORGET A PARENTHESI (or howerver you spell that) D:
I do plan to work on a desktop edition of Chopraider with more missions… and a MAP EDITOR!
Honestly, this won’t happen for at least a couple of months since I have to finish all of the CW2 work first. But by the autumn you should be able to make your own continents and stock them full of Crimson’s dreaded Red forces.
@virgilw do you have a week count you are away from realsing it yet?
Will be near the end of this month at the earliest. I’m making good progress, but custom unit support and all of the in-game menus take time… as does creating the system on the web site to host all of the maps, etc.
agh!!!comment some stuff creator!!!
oh,neva mind…found the creators comment,should be realeased this month. comment 31 pplz!
the custom tiles are pretty neat, but I can see it getting annoying. I just know someone will have the bright idea to make creeper colored tiles and background.
That is already done with cw1 so that is definite and in fact I plan on continuing my Darkness series with cw2 and that has the same idea (black creeper and terrain but different colored collector area stuff to see the creeper)
Great…. :/ so how are you going to distinguish between the differnt tiles? (3hp, 10hp, 25hp, decayable short/medium/long)?
Hover over the tiles, same thing worked in CW1 maps like this, it does display the hp and decay time(I think, if not, it really should), as well as the creeper density.
Yes in deed and ill use a similar trick as I did in CW1 (the collector color was different) ^__^
I do want to say in addition to Creeper World Map Page maybe have a texture download page.
I will also host tiles and units that people come up with.
will map editor be available in the demo version??
No, only the full version of the game will be ale to load custom maps created with the editor. But, the editor itself is something that is free and anyone can download and play with it. You won’t be able to submit maps without playing them first and posting a score, though. I learned that lesson in CW1…
yes thats good Virgilw the maps do need to be dooable. ok everyone i want us to guess when the map editor will be abaliable i guess july 25th any other guesses?
Virgil,
I have been playing creeper world for over a year but I had no idea you made other games. Are you going to add Chopraider and any others to this site?
Yes I will…
Before the year is out there will be these things available (if the wind stays at my back):
-Creeper World 1
-Creeper World: Training Sim (Free Flash Game)
-[NEW] Creeper World: User Space (Free Flash Game)
-Creeper World 2
-[NEW] Creeper World 2: Tournament (Free Flash Game)
-[NEW] ChopRaider: D
-ChopRaider (Free Flash Game)
-CW1 Map Editor
-[NEW] CW2 Map Editor
-[NEW] ChopRaider Map Editor
i guess the 21st
virgil,probem………i bought cw1 awhile ago on a slow computer and then got a new computer and later when i got on the slow computer(it was about 6months later)cr1 wasnt there!any ideahs of where it is?(i put it on the desktop. all the new stuff sounds fun too though
Noobs like you troll blogs and the forums, not knowing or too lazy to try to know what to actually do. Just e-mail him. He helped me out with the same problem after I e-mailed him. Also, please use correct grammar.
and will you half to use the tiles in map editor or will there be an option
hey i was wondering if virgil could make a way to transport game datas from one computer to a nother just in case we get a new computer or something.
There is a method to do this already, search for it on the forums.
CW2 Map Editor on day/month/year
Well times a wasting lets go kill some creeper while we wait.
Well, I know I can’t wait for the Map Editor, but people, really? Screaming,” I CAN’T WAIT!!! VIRGIL POST THE EDITOR!!!” Isn’t going to help. Just play Creeper World, enjoy the maps, and figure out how you want to make yours! He already said it’s not coming out ’till the end of the month.
jayR-THANK YOU!!! super sonic guy-HOW was i trollling?email would make it less easy(i just wanna know where i is…) and finally!how wasnt i using corect grammar…copy and paste what felt wrong to you…
I dont know what was wrong other than your spelling, a period (missing), and posting a comment not involving the right topic. If you have your liscense you should be able to get the download link again (I had the same sort of problem: a virus literallly annihlated everything on my acount so I redownloaded it on another user).
Oh, Mr.Wall, how would the map editor upload custom graphics? Do you have to draw them from scratch? Or will I be able to upload them? If so, what kind of file will I have to use? How big are the dimensions?
Thank you for your time.
if you want the map editor wait at least 30 days after the post he has posted + that he has targeted this month to relese so thaty he can have some time to fix the bugs in the map editor and also make it able to work and make it eaisier to make maps
wait till the thirty first and if you hurry him he might5 not find a bug and have to have extra time to fix it so dont start
Actually, if you read the forums, he is ALREADY rushing to get done. He just wants it to be stable enough to post. His MAIN targets are the 2 online games, User Space, and Tournament.
The custom tiles are great, I just don’t have the artistic talent needed. I made 1 set, but they look like crap. I guess I’ll leave tile design to the artistic people, like Madmag and Sqaz.
I second that. I can (hopefully) create a good game, just not art
so…. virgilw how far till ur done?
TODAY OF CW2 EDITOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will we also be able to change emitter’s (not creeper color) looks, and the drones, and gateways?
OMG I NEED IT NOW I WAIT SO LONG FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!
Well i just hope we can all enjoy it soon
ok virgil, hombre, man, dude,
Ive beaten the story and the bonus
and it’s been A LONG time since then.
please do get the custom maps out NOW.
If you haven’t already beaten all 4 billion code maps, you could play some to keep entertained while waiting for the editor to come out.
Try the weekly code map tournament on the forums!
Ah, this game never ceases (that’s how you spell that right?) to amaze me. Good job.
Can’t wait for the editor, but ill manage.
I Now Have The Oldest Comment By 2 Years And a Few Days!!!!!!!!!!!