Tileset World

Under Construction This guide will detail how to mix and match tileset objects, surface textures and sound effects.

Mappers Tileset Guide

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<tileset>

• <surfaces>
  • <surface> Path to surface textures; prob=% chance of this texture to appear (0.2=20%; sum of all textures in one surface tag must be 1)
    • <texture path="textures/surface3a.bmp" prob="0.5"/>
    • <texture path="textures/surface3b.bmp" prob="0.5"/>
  • </surface>
• </surfaces>

• <objects> Different objects. There are 10 object groups:

1. trees
2. trees(cannot be harvested)
3. stone
4. walkable terrain(like grass)
5. walkable (like riverside)
6. up to 10 can be anything, depending on the tileset.(by default unwalkable)

• <object walkable="false"> Can unit walk throught this object

• <model path="models/tree1.g3d"/> Path to object model

...

• </object>

• </objects>

• <ambient-sounds> Sound options; Are specials sounds enabled; path to sound; will it play always or not.
  • <day-sound enabled="true" path="sounds/day.ogg" play-always="false"/>
  • <night-sound enabled="true" path="sounds/night.ogg" play-always="false"/>
  • <rain-sound enabled="true" path="sounds/rain.ogg"/>
  • <snow-sound enabled="false"/>
  • <day-start-sound enabled="true" path="sounds/chicken.wav"/>
  • <night-start-sound enabled="true" path="sounds/wolf.wav"/>
• </ambient-sounds>

• <parameters>
  • <water effects="true"> Enable water effect as in game conig (???)
    • <texture path="textures/water_001.tga"/> Path to texture

...

• </water>
• <fog enabled="true" mode="2" density="0.03" color-red="0.6" color-green="1" color-blue="0.4"/> Enable fog (as in main menu); fog density (more=harder to see through it); colours of fog (range 0-1); mode= (???)
• <sun-light red="1" green="1" blue="1"/> Brightness of day-time colours (more=birhter)
• <moon-light red="0.6" green="0.6" blue="0.9"/> Brightness of night-time colours, if set to 1 then night will be as light as day (permanent time of day)
• <day-night value="0.7"/> Day/Night ratio (70% of time will be day, 30% night) (???)
• <weather sun="0.6" rain="0.4" snow="0"/> Weather ratio (60% of time will be sun, 40% rain, 0% snow)

• </parameters>

</tileset>

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Folder paths and filenames use _'s rather than spaces by convention.

XML files do not use the .xml extension internally

Glest

• data
  • core
    • faction_textures - the four faction colors (single pixel .tga files)
    • menu
      • about_models
      • main_models
      • music
      • sound
      • textures
      • menu.xml
    • misc_textures
    • water_sounds
  • lang - localization files
• docs
  • tech - HTML Tech Tree (Default install)
  • license.txt
  • readme.txt
• maps - map.gbm files
• Screens - Screenshots
• techs
  • tech_name
    • common - (optional: Common UI elements used by numerous units)
    • factions
      • faction_name
        • units
          • unit_name
            • images
            • models
            • sounds
          • unit_name.xml
        • upgrades
          • upgrade_name
            • images
          • upgrade_name.xml
        • faction_name.xml
    • resources
      • resource_name
        • images
        • models
        • resource_name.xml
    • tech_name.xml
• tileset
  • tileset_name
    • models
    • sounds
    • textures
    • tileset_name.xml

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<menu> Main menu configuration

• <water value="true" height="3"/> Enable water; height of water (more height=flood)
• <rain value="true"/> Enable rain
• <fog value="true" density="0.035"/> Enable fog; fog density (more=harder to see through it)
• <camera> Camera position & rotation for each menu button
  • <start-position x="5" y="10" z="40"/> for start button
  • <root-position x="-9" y="11" z="10"/> for main menu
  • ...
  • <settings-rotation x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
• </camera>

</menu>