Map Editor suggestions

[Grabarz]

Exactly, I focus on the plot heavily in my maps (mores now than before, even) and I can't rely on the player grabbing. Holocube at the exact moment I want them to. So for timed messages, you can comment on things such as, "oh my go, a big blob of creeper just spawned over our heads!" lol.

With conditional messages, I imagine you could actually then determine what strategy is actually used, and make comments depending on it.

When conditional messages are not beyond your desire, why not load Virgil up with a request for a (simple) CW2 custom scripting language doing all these things?! Although awesome, the sheer imagined difficulty of this does withdraw me from actually requesting this...

I would at least like to know if Virgil would add this in the next update, because that's what is keeping me away from uploading my maps, that have their own short story, and just beg for having timed messages to let player know when is what going to happen.

[Grauniad]

Don't hold your breath....

[Ranakastrasz]

Don't hold your breath....

*Ranakastrasz's face turns creeper blue*

[thepenguin]

Don't hold your breath....

*Ranakastrasz's face turns creeper blue*

how about greeper white

[Ranakastrasz]

Don't hold your breath....

*Ranakastrasz's face turns creeper blue*

how about greeper white

XD

[Ebon Heart]

I'm waiting on timed/conditional messages to upload the rest of my first encounters series. Number 4 is done, and number 5 has a decent start on it. :( I may also hold out till Dbit submits a custom map, depends on how evil I'm feeling. ;)

[Ebon Heart]

hmm, I was making a basic website today and had an idea. In my map editor guide, I mentioned that field boxes are kind of like divs in HTML. I wonder if it would be possible to define a position for a field to move based on a point in another field. Just a thought, IE.
Move: Field ID="test [3,4] in 45" delay 60

See picture, the point marked in the top field is where the ball would move to.  Just a thought.

[Grabarz]

While making one of my maps, after having like 999 fields it was a pain to keep going through all of them to find the ones you need.
Any possibility of sorting fields by their ID? It would make things a lot easier.

[MadMag]

Or.. Shift click on it to select it. Why don't make it like Photoshop :p

[Grabarz]

And what if I have couple of fields in same place?

[MadMag]

Ctrl + Shift + Click to go thru layers.. (like Quark?)

[TonyP2000]

I personally would like to be able to have time limits. That way if you do not complete a certain objective before the time runs out, you automatically lose.

[thepenguin]

I personally would like to be able to have time limits. That way if you do not complete a certain objective before the time runs out, you automatically lose.

and, if there is a time limit, have the timer count down, instead of up

[Kithros]

I personally would like to be able to have time limits. That way if you do not complete a certain objective before the time runs out, you automatically lose.

Those can be mimiced fairly easily in most cases by using capsules and fields or decaying terrain etc.

[thepenguin]

I personally would like to be able to have time limits. That way if you do not complete a certain objective before the time runs out, you automatically lose.

Those can be mimiced fairly easily in most cases by using capsules and fields or decaying terrain etc.

I should work on a count-down timer for CW