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I am a bit interested in what GUI framework you have used for the editor. Have you written it your self?

To know if it is day or night, we modeled a star system, with a central sun being the sun you can see in game, a bunch of planets and also distant stars. Depending on where on the planet a map is location, and in which direction the camera is setup to look, we calculate the location of the sun in relation to the map and thus approximate the time of day. The sun during the day, the planets and the stars during the night are then rendered using regular 3d to 2d projection.

At about 6:00 in the video, you can see in the tile selector that some tiles have blue bold names, this indicates that they are actually tilesets. Most tilesets in the construction of buildings have a central horisontal tile, and 2 edge tiles. The editor looks for tiles of the same tileset when placing, by checking if there are any other tiles that match up close enough to the placed tile’s corners. Because of this, we do not need a grid, and the tilesets can be placed in any rotation and scale, and still understand which piece is intended. To help with drawing in an free form drawn tilegrid, we have options for snapping to neighbours and aligning angles when drawing.

Thanks for the kind words!
/thewreck

Also, in the editor I see that the left and right side tiles were added automatically when drawing some of the house tiles; is this a function of clicking and dragging or placed automatic based on having no adjacent tile?

Hopefully we’ll get to testing soon, but it will be more like alpha then beta

/Kinten