Map dimensions in editor

ID:1376573
 
Sep 14 2013, 9:43 am
Applies to:Dream Maker
Status: Open
Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Map dimensions in Dream Maker are still limited to 1000x1000, despite the limits during runtime being roughly a total area of 16777216 turfs.

That's a possible area of 4096x4096x1.

Can we increase the limit per axis to the full range of a 2-byte integer? A total maximum range of 65,536 would be excessive, and as such a better limit than 1000.

You have no idea how maddening it is to not have an upper bound of 1024. X_X
Sep 14 2013, 10:39 am
Are you basically requesting id:116886?
Sep 14 2013, 10:46 am
No. World.maxx/maxy limits have been increased already. At runtime, you can create any sized world, but in the map editor, you can only make a DMM that is 1000x1000.

The Dream Maker IDE is limited to 1000x1000, when the runtime environment is not. Try changing world.maxx to 2000 and world.maxy to 1000. It'll take a while, but it works.

I'm not requesting an additional 24 tiles, I'm requesting that the editor be brought in compliance with the capabilities of the environment.
Sep 14 2013, 7:48 pm
If I'm not mistaken, the limit for both compile and run time has been raised with the new 4 byte DMB?

Should be able to have 4.2 billion
Sep 15 2013, 5:09 am
Yet, if you download the new 500 beta, try expanding a map past 1000x1000 in Dream Maker. --still doesn't work.
Sep 15 2013, 7:25 am
I believe the reason for this is the editor itself, it would probably wreck the IDE to load up a map any larger than 1000x1000.
Sep 15 2013, 1:02 pm
FIREking wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, the limit for both compile and run time has been raised with the new 4 byte DMB?

Should be able to have 4.2 billion

Effectively any 2-byte limits are 3-byte now. References beyond 3 bytes are basically impossible to use in text form and are therefore meaningless, so there are actually some places where the 3-byte limit is enforced. As a practical matter it shouldn't be an issue, unlike 64K which was a big deal for some games.

Nadrew wrote:
I believe the reason for this is the editor itself, it would probably wreck the IDE to load up a map any larger than 1000x1000.

Yeah, I don't think DM could handle this without puking.