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Hi,

There is a possibility that Alpha 26 will include a map editor. Please provide your ideas here.

Please keep the standard rules about not submitting copyrighted content to the wiki. This includes any material of your own for which you want the copyright. (We are submitting our ideas into the public domain for Michal to use under an open source license)

Thanks!

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Tribe/villain editor

Purpose: Creating villains and allies for the campaign maps. Choosing villain triggers and attack strategy.

Tribe name

Tribe’s loyalty - Dropdown based on TribeID:

[Human/Elf/Darkelf/Dwarf/Gnome/Bandit/Shelob/Lizard/Greenskin/RetiredKeeper/Ant/Monster/Pest/Wildlife/Hostile/Peaceful]

Tribe type: Drop down list - Only set to “allies” if the Tribe id is a valid ally.

[Main villain/Minor villain/allies]

Tribe image for displaying your new villain on campaign maps [Select view ID from a list]

Attack Triggers: Dropdown.

[Gold/Proximity/Throne/Stealing/Trespassing]

Initial Biome (How your new map starts off before you edit it): Dropdown

[Grassland, Forest, Mountain, 100% Sand, 100% grass, 100% water, 100% lava, 100% rock…or procedurally generated villains that already exist such as a “red dragon” map]

Example: Create a new tribe called “River Pirates”, with a loyalty to bandits. Make them a minor villain, select the view id for bandits. Give them a trigger of gold and put them in a forest biome.

Click the “Generate Terrain” Button to generate a forest biome map and move on to the Terrain Editor. (Note: Your new tribe has no creatures, tiles or furniture in it because it doesn’t know what to put where yet).

Full Terrain editor

Purpose - Edit every aspect of the map provided it still produces a valid save file!

Select a tribe on the map - Drop down

[River Pirates/Elves/Humans/Unclaimed] <—Example

Place existing furniture (to be owned by the selected tribe)

Remove existing furniture on the map you don’t want. Reuse existing UI.

Claim tile - Claim tiles and furniture for your selected tribe. (Designating villain territory)

Add creature to current tribe (Creature id drop down). Summon a creature belonging to the selected tribe ID. (Making creatures from the creature factory and assigning them to their villain tribe)

[Keeper/Female Keeper/Adventurer/Female Adventurer/Unicorn/Bandit/Ghost/Spirit/Lost Soul/Succubus/Doppleganger/Witch/Witchman/Cyclops/Demon dweller/Demon Lord/Minotaur/Soft Monster/Hydra/Shelob/Green dragon/Red dragon/Knight/Jester/The Duke/Archer/Priest/Warrior/Shaman/Peseant/Child/Child (Spider food)/Halloween Kid/Clay Golem/Iron Golem/Lava Golem/Adamantium Golem/Automaton/Zombie/Skeleton/Vampire/Vampire Lord/Mummy/Orc/Orc Shaman/Harpy/Kobold/Gnome/Gnome Chief/Goblin/Imp/Ogre/Chicken/Dwarf/Dwarf Female/Dwarf Baron/Lizardman/Lizardman lord/Elf/Elven Archer/Elf Child/Elf Lord/Dark elf/Dark elf warrior/Dark elf child/Dark elf lord/Driad/Horse/Cow/Donkey/Pig/Goat/Jackal/Deer/Boar/Fox/Cave Bear/Rat/Spider/Fly/Ant Worker/Soldier Ant/Ant Queen/Snake/Raven/Vulture/Wolf/WereWolf/Dog/Fire Sphere/Elementalist/Fire elemental/Air Elemental/Earth elemental/Water Elemental/Ent/Angel/Kraken/Bat/Death]

Option to retire the map (upload it).

Example: Increase the size of the rivers. Make a secret cave along the side of a river that you must swim to or fly into. Select the tribe named “river pirates” and summon some bandits inside the cave. Claim the cave tiles for your new tribe. (tribe ID = bandit)

Click on the creatures (example: the bandits) to edit them.

Creature editor

Purpose - Edit creatures that are on the map (either from the initial map generation or from summoning them)

Rename

Banish

Control creature

Press ‘u’ at any time to return to the terrain editor.

Move it about

Summon equipment for creature (F11?)

Add/Remove permanent effect (Drop down list) (F10?)

Add/Remove skill (Drop down list)

Increase/Decrease stats (Click on stat)

Add/Remove spell (Click on spell)

Add/Remove training abilities (Click on training)

Edit AI (Leader/Fighter/Civilian/Prisoner)

Edit gender (m/f/it)

Edit body size (huge/large/small/tiny)

Restore and injure body parts

Example. Create some bandits in the secret cave. Change their name to pirates and make them tougher. Give the pirate leader a bit higher attack. Give the pirates the swimming skill so they can leave the cave by crossing the river.

Edit items in a creature’s inventory (Click on them, to go to the item editor)

Item editor

Press ‘u’ at any time to return to the creature editor and again to return to the terrain editor.

Change name of item

Increase/Decrease item’s attack (weapon)

Increase/Decrease item’s defense (armour)

Edit lasting effect (ring, potion)

Edit effect (Mushroom, scroll)

Destroy item

Example - take the pirate captain’s sword. Name it a great pirate sword and increase the damage a bit.

Additional notes

It may help to have a dungeon master avatar when editing maps. He could be a place-holder who looks like a keeper but disappears when you retire the map.

It could help to freeze the game turns so things stay where you put them.

Instead of dropdowns the enums could each have an icon you can select them with. views for different: Tribe Ids, creature Ids, Item Ids, Effect Ids, Skill Ids, Spell Ids etc.

Another way of adding and removing spells, skills and permanent effects might be to show them all and toggle them on/off

Example: Rename a pirate to “blind old pirate”. Toggle blindness effect on the blind pirate - putting “blindness” in a red font when you click on it to show blindness is switched on. Make the blind pirate slower and give him an injured leg by clicking on “slow” and his intrinsic leg attack turning them red.