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Thread for "mapping Errors"
Posted: 02 May 2011, 06:48
by Ginaria
Hello
I dont know, if such a thread existed, if not, probably should be
Could be an easy way for Devs to have a central main thread, where players can post graphical bugs. Screenshot and map position info could be helpful (click key F10 for infos ingame).
Example:

- Map 011-6
Position (266,170) to (267, 169) - graphicbug.jpg (40.54 KiB) Viewed 2905 times
Re: Thread for graphical Bugs
Posted: 02 May 2011, 07:18
by Crush
Thanks for pointing out these errors.
We refer to errors like this as "Mapping errors", not graphical bugs. Graphical bugs are errors in the underlying graphic engine itself, while the errors you are pointing out here are mistakes the map maker did.
An even better way to point out errors is our bugtracker
http://mantis.themanaworld.org. When you post on the forum, a thread can easily be forgotten, but a bugtracker ticket will persist until it is solved or closed. An even better way to handle such errors would be when you would use the map editor to correct the errors yourself and upload the corrected map to the bugtracker ticket you've created. After you've learned how to use Git and Tiled, this would be even less work than creating and cropping a screenshot.
Re: Thread for graphical Bugs
Posted: 02 May 2011, 07:28
by Ginaria
Crush wrote:Thanks for pointing out these errors.
We refer to errors like this as "Mapping errors", not graphical bugs. Graphical bugs are errors in the underlying graphic engine itself, while the errors you are pointing out here are mistakes the map maker did.
An even better way to point out errors is our bugtracker
http://mantis.themanaworld.org. When you post on the forum, a thread can easily be forgotten, but a bugtracker ticket will persist until it is solved or closed. An even better way to handle such errors would be when you would use the map editor to correct the errors yourself and upload the corrected map to the bugtracker ticket you've created. After you've learned how to use Git and Tiled, this would be even less work than creating and cropping a screenshot.
Okay, thats better... i will check the bugtracker... and i will test this method to post (and correct) such mini errors...
You could post the link to the newest version of map editor, would be great...
Re: Thread for graphical Bugs
Posted: 02 May 2011, 07:53
by Dark_Mag
Ginaria wrote:Crush wrote:Thanks for pointing out these errors.
We refer to errors like this as "Mapping errors", not graphical bugs. Graphical bugs are errors in the underlying graphic engine itself, while the errors you are pointing out here are mistakes the map maker did.
An even better way to point out errors is our bugtracker
http://mantis.themanaworld.org. When you post on the forum, a thread can easily be forgotten, but a bugtracker ticket will persist until it is solved or closed. An even better way to handle such errors would be when you would use the map editor to correct the errors yourself and upload the corrected map to the bugtracker ticket you've created. After you've learned how to use Git and Tiled, this would be even less work than creating and cropping a screenshot.
Okay, thats better... i will check the bugtracker... and i will test this method to post (and correct) such mini errors...
You could post the link to the newest version of map editor, would be great...
hello Giniria,
it can be downloaded here:
http://www.mapeditor.org/
cheers, dark
Re: Thread for graphical Bugs
Posted: 02 May 2011, 08:07
by Ginaria
Hello Dork Moge
THANKS, great!!!
Now i would need the link, where i could get actually used map layout files...
Re: Thread for graphical Bugs
Posted: 02 May 2011, 08:09
by Dark_Mag
Ginaria wrote:
Hello Dork Moge
THANKS, great!!!
Now i would need the link, where i could get actually used map layout files...
hm, tiles and maps can be downloaded from git:
https://gitorious.org/tmwdata
cheers, dark
Re: Thread for "mapping Errors"
Posted: 02 May 2011, 08:17
by Crush
Check out this thread to learn how to work with the content files like a professional:
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... =13&t=2617
Re: Thread for graphical Bugs
Posted: 02 May 2011, 08:19
by Ginaria
Thanks again, i will try to collect some experiences with it....
Re: Thread for "mapping Errors"
Posted: 02 May 2011, 16:02
by Alige
A patch has been made and was pushed. The map is now pretty cleaned.
Ali-G