Where should i start ?
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 07:20
Hi !
I just searched for a tool to create 2D maps and choose Tiled.
Now i was looking for a "engine" to create my own RPG game and found FLARE.
Im not a native english speaker so please excusse that im not able to understand all this...
I downloaded the windows version of FLARE but dont understand how to install it.
And also, where would you start if you want to create your own map (via Tiled) get it into FLARE, place a player and e few enemys and play it, just for fun.
Is this even possible by now ?
Thanks for your help !
Anonymous,
I need to create a tutorial on how to make Tiled maps for Flare. For now I suggest getting a copy of Flare from github, especially the Tiled folder:
https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare/tree/master/tiled
In the Frontier folder are the newest maps that use Tiled properly. Open those maps in Tiled and poke around, see how they're set up. Try altering those maps to see how it works.
From Tiled 0.8 you can Export as Flare's map format. If you're experimenting on the Frontier maps, put your new map files in /mods/frontier/maps/
Feel free to ask questions!
Hi !
Thanks for your help.
But can you please explain how i can install FLARE on my Win7 64Bit PC ?
I have done some scripting for other games but no real programming...
Do i need a special program to run FLARE or edit it ?
> Thanks for your help.
> But can you please explain how i can install FLARE on my Win7 64Bit PC ?
Depends on where you've downloaded Flare from. If you've cloned the git repo, you'll need to compile Flare first; for a list of dependencies and for build instructions, please refere to the readme. If you've downloaded a binary package, I guess all you'll need to do is to unzip it somewhere on your machine.
> I have done some scripting for other games but no real programming...
> Do i need a special program to run FLARE or edit it ?
Quote from the readme:
>To build flare you need the 1.2 Development Libraries for SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, and SDL_ttf.
>To run flare you need the equivalent 1.2 Runtime Libraries.
If you've downloaded a binary package, all the libraries should already be in place.
To edit Flare you'll need a text editor. Preferably not MS Notepad. Most files have a simple .ini like syntax; just take a look at the preinstalled mods to see how they work. You can even edit the maps with a text editor, although it's probably quite painful that way and you should better use Tiled.