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FLARE

How to edit a map?

NimoStar
Monday, December 4, 2017 - 23:03

Well, I downloaded Flare mainly because it was the nicest looking open source free RPG engine.

 

So far the scripting seems simple enough, the game mechanics (save for the lack of party) are mostly satisfying (I will give suggestions in another thread)

 

However, something I haven't been able to find is the way to make your own maps.I found the tilesets and such but no way to use them. Here some people speak of tileedit, but it didn't come with my download (latest pre-compiled version, 0.19, I am not a programmer)

 

Where can one get it (besides "compile it yourself" from Github)? And why is it not included on the main release? I don't suppose that after occupying hundreds of megabytes with the assets, a simple .exe would hurt :V

 

Nothing here either: http://flarerpg.org/create/

 I feel like some full RPG-creating tutorial would be nice. I know how (d)isometric tiles and perspective work, I just don't know how to mapmake this...

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dorkster
joined 10 years 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 18:20
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We use Tiled for creating maps. It is a separate, open-source, program that has support for exporting to Flare's map format.

I recently wrote a map creation tutorial for Flare using Tiled:

https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-engine/wiki/Creating-a-Map-in-Tiled

Keep in mind that this tutorial is written for the latest version of the Flare engine from Github. So many newer features won't work. Thankfully, the map format hasn't changed drastically since 0.19, so the tutorial might still work if you aren't interested in compiling the development version of Flare.

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