DMP to Swapmaps question/request

ID:170144
 
Mar 17 2005, 5:30 am
I've just started incorporating the SwapMaps library into Maeva and have seen what an incredible range of options this now opens up for me. I'm thoroughly impressed. I'm just having a few problems, chiefly with converting my dmp files to swapmaps. It looks like if something has an icon_state with a comma in it, it gets separated and isn't read correctly by swapmaps. I can go in and manually remove the carriage returns and it seems to work ok, but perhaps this can be handled automatically by the library? Also, if I have two turfs on the same map square, BYOND treats the bottom turf as an underlay if I just compile the map, but the DMP converter treats it as part of the turfs contents, which crashes the map loading process. I'm sure I can find temporary work-arounds but it would help a lot if the library could be updated. Thanks a lot, and kudos or whatnot to you Lummox.
Mar 17 2005, 9:45 am
DerDragon wrote:
I've just started incorporating the SwapMaps library into Maeva and have seen what an incredible range of options this now opens up for me. I'm thoroughly impressed. I'm just having a few problems, chiefly with converting my dmp files to swapmaps. It looks like if something has an icon_state with a comma in it, it gets separated and isn't read correctly by swapmaps.

Hrm. I'll take a look.

I can go in and manually remove the carriage returns and it seems to work ok, but perhaps this can be handled automatically by the library? Also, if I have two turfs on the same map square, BYOND treats the bottom turf as an underlay if I just compile the map, but the DMP converter treats it as part of the turfs contents, which crashes the map loading process. I'm sure I can find temporary work-arounds but it would help a lot if the library could be updated. Thanks a lot, and kudos or whatnot to you Lummox.

The .dmp converter wasn't originally designed to handle underlays properly, basically because I didn't realize at the time how those were being done in the file. Now that I know, though, I can at some point fix this.

Lummox JR
Mar 19 2005, 6:33 pm
In response to Lummox JR
 
proc/d2sm_ParseCommaList(txt)
    var/list/L=new
    var/i,ch
    var/inquotes = 0
    for(i=1,i<=length(txt),++i)
        if(text2ascii(txt,i)>32) break
    for(,i<=length(txt),++i)
        ch=text2ascii(txt,i)
        if(ch==34)
            inquotes = !inquotes
        if(ch==44&&!inquotes)
            L+=copytext(txt,1,i)
            for(++i,i<=length(txt),++i) if(text2ascii(txt,i)>32) break
            txt=copytext(txt,i)
            i=0;continue
        if(ch==40 || ch==91 || ch==123)
            i=d2sm_MatchBrace(txt,i,ch)
            if(!i) return "No matching brace found for [ascii2text(ch)]"
    if(i>1) L+=copytext(txt,1,i)
    return L


I made a few minor changes to the parsing of commas, taking quotes into account. Now I can convert my DMPs that use pngs over 32x32 pixels in size and their icon_states will be accounted for properly. I also added an "underturf" variable to handle underlays of multi-turf tiles. I modified the SwapMaps code for that a bit, but I figured it's kind of a shoddy way to do it and people wouldn't or at least shouldn't really be interested.

Again, huge thanks to Lummox, a new era of Maeva is dawning with SwapMaps.