Editor plans

Future plans for the Widelands Editor and it's development status

About this page

Here, the new draft for the widelands editor is written. We start from the state in build-9 and define what the editor should be able to do and how the user can enter this informations into the editor. This document is likely to change quite often, when things are completed they are removed from this document, so this only contains the Editor TODOs.

Sections

Splitting the editor from the game -- undecided

Seperating the editor in various part -- undecided

It seems like a good idea to seperate the editor in various 'editing sections' with own buttons and tools to select from the main screen. One of the sections would be something like 'Terrain + Resources + Bobs' which would be the most basic part of editing (and of course the only part needed for non scenario maps). One would be 'Buildings + Roads + Their options' for making infrastructure; one would be 'Ai params', one would be 'areas'. Maybe this is all crap and all the advanced options should only get their own tools.

Make player Infrastructure -- 0%

Trigger / Event Framework -- 0%

Triggers / Events to be included -- 0%

New design tools

Some vague thoughts about area fill ....

Small TODOS

This contains a list of things that are missing in the editor, i use this to remember what i still have to do, if you hack on the editor and a small TODO comes up, add it here too (or remove one if you included it).

• Better Immovable select dialog
• Validate Field function, if something one tool has done could be invalid because a second tool does something else
• Swimming critters only in water allowed and vice versa
• Picture adding for buttons in player menu
• reintroduce Make Infrastructure
• Do not allow objectives, eventchains ... with the same name