This is in relation to TrOn's reponse on my question about maps.

I'm sorry, but you are going to have to bear with me as I am very new to this. When you say make a small program, exactly what do you mean and where can I learn more about how to accomplish that?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Dr. Froth

I believe he meant rather than program the map into your current game file, start up a new file and test it there. That way you don't have to sort through all the other stuff in your game, and problems are easier to find.

No - I meant go get a proper compiler and create a simple program to bring up an image/text-layout of the map.

Pretty simple actually, and you have alot more control as it's your program.

like visual basic?

Would be just the deal for making a small map proggie.

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YAY! btw: a got you an easter egg tron. you said you liked creme eggs?

Tr0n wrote:No - I meant go get a proper compiler .

I use miracle C - any better suggestions?

Gnu C++, through Linux - or you can get mingw.. I personally just download Bloodshed's Dev-C++(http://www.bloodshed.net/).

Has a good repository from what I can see, and pretty easy to use!
Nice development GUI for C++ too.

But I understand you can use notepad with mingw stuff - I just haven't been bothered to learn anything about the command line configuration in Windows.. Bloody nightmare compared to Linux/Unix.