Level Master 2000: screenshot0001

Today I prepared the initial launch of Level Master 2000 at google code: http://code.google.com/p/levelmaster2000/. There are still a lot of features missing, as the project page states:

August 24th, 2010. Commited as is. Consider this more a preview/announcement rather than a real release. A major restructuring will occur within the next months, but anyway – here it is!

Nevertheless, it’s a good feeling finally having it on air and getting some feedback!

1. Clean all targets
2. Regenerate the qMake file via Qt Creator
3. Rebuild the project
4. Install the latest Flashplayer and add the app/AS3/bin directory to Flash Player’s local trusted

That was it! See for yourself:

Level Master 2000: running on OS X

The GUI needs a bit work though (e.g. the “delete entity” button), but all in all I’m really impressed how easy this was.

Level Master 2000: Template Editor Preview

It’s thought that one works himself through from left to right: first pick you components (left), name them (middle) and finally, set default properties and check those which should be visible in the editor when creating an entity from a template. Of course there’ll be a “professional mode”, which shows all the properties if one wants.
Improvement/thoughts are always welcome! I won’t start implementing it until around mid of August anyway.

I’ll post some more detailed info about this trigger class soon (hopefully this week)!

Level Master 2000 Racing Demo

The weeks before, I was mostly busy with writing the introductional / theoretical background chapters of my thesis. Turned out to be more work than expected…

• Info
• Warning
• Error
• Debug command

It should be quite self-explanatory, except for the Debug command: since the editor front end is Qt/C++, and the backend is Flash/AS3/Pushbutton Engine, I need to communicate between these apps. I do this via XML, and that’s basically what the debug command is. I can simply copy and paste these commands into my the Flash part of the app and now easily start debugging! I’ll post more about the communication flow in a few months, when I’m covering that in my thesis, until that, just enjoy the new logger view:

Level Master 2000: new log view

I also log to files: a normal log file, which contains all entries, and a command log file, which only contains the executed commands. This way I can easily reproduce possible error situations

Next on my todo list is creating undo/redo commands for creating and deleting entities and components. As soon as that’s done, milestone 1 for my thesis is finished!

Other than that, I really like Qt and Qt Creator. It simplifies life big time! At least as far as it can get with C++ (silent hoooorraayyy for C# ).

As you can see, the components of an entity are now listed in the lower table view. The tooltip of the class column shows the whole package name. This way, one can easily see, out of which components an entity consists of. It’s still not a 100% finished yet (e.g. deleting components is missing), but I think you can get the idea where it’s going to!