Flare 1.0 Documentation.
Firstly congratulations on the release of Flare 1.0!
I appreciate all the years of hard work and effort by the Flare development team and contributors.
I have yet to complete the V1.0 Empyrean Campaign, but I am enjoying it so far.
Now that Flare has hit the 1.0 milestone, is there any documentation on the Flare map file format?
I have browsed the flare engine wiki, and there is information on how to use tiled to make maps, but no clear information on the map file format that I could find. I wish to make a map from scratch by hand in a text editor.
Can I use multiple texture atlases (image files) in the same tilesetdefs file?
Is there a way to tag tiles in the tilesetdefs with their purposes? Like "floor", wall, "object" etc...Is there a way for a mod to call an external application on map transitions with command line arguments?Is there a way for a mod to write data to an external file on map transitions?
My apologies on the many questions, but any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks for the kind words. I tihnk the best docs we have now is to look at the existing flare-game data files in combination with referring to the Attribute Reference on the wiki:
As of 1.05, you can use multiple images in tileset definitions. Example:
[tileset]
img=image1.png
tile=1,...
[tileset]
img=image2.png
tile=2,...
There's no way to tag specific tiles, but you can add comment lines with '#' to help keep track of which tiles are which. flare-game definitions were like that, but the comments got scrapped after I ran them through the sprite packing program.
Flare mods do not have the ability to write data or run external programs.