Native - mod

[TheBear]

This is how it currently looks...I left out the test maps.



I've looked at the maps enough that I have all the names/numbers memorized so I'm not sure what would be best for you guys. With around 60 maps you obviously can't put those all on one locked screen. You would have to create pages similar to the recipe menu or make it a map where you swim around and have essentially Naija's Home (VehaCave) going on. Put a background tile for that zone and put the screenshots/names on top and have it be an interactive index.

[Danger Mouse]

Actually I had an idea for the title screen buttons. Instead of only having the names of all the maps (some of which aren't that intuitive) we could have icons of what that map looks like on the main world map or some other icon of the map shape. So you could know at a glance, for example, which half of the veil you were about to go to.

Sound like a good idea? Or maybe too much work...

I actually REALLY LIKE that idea. You could use the gem marker graphics as the link to the specific maps too. Awesome! I hope you will be able to go with that plan as it looks like theBear has already a different menu. : /

[TheBear]

Could also do a world map like this that you swim around as Naija. Prototype for icons below. Keeping it as a locked page we would need extra pages that could be navigated to. Simplest way I can think to do this is to have 4 separate pages on the actual map and just move the camera to a different node. This would require more programming obviously.



At the moment the text list is a locked screen like the title but Naija still swims around. To make it a completely static screen (based on looking through Alec's code) there needs to be local directional navigation set up with some if statements. Otherwise the buttons in only one direction from the center work. Currently (text version), you have to swim to the general area of the locked screen to click the buttons there.

Might need someone with a little more programming experience to get this working exactly how you want.

Update
Hopefully there aren't any typos after writing the 60 maps a couple times. Escape is functional. Load "index" to return to the map.
Download Map Index: Simple Text

[Danger Mouse]

not bad, not bad. 

[Hiro]

I don't seem to have the 'index2' tileset file that the map tries to load, so the game crashes. I tried renaming the 'index' tileset to 'index2', but that just loads a map that looks like nothing.
But from the screen shots it looks like it could be really good.

I did have another idea though, that should be fairly easy to implement once this is done, to use that treasure hunter's map as a tile, and put all the nodes to warp places onto where they are on that map, so you know exactly where you're about to go. It'd use all the same nodes as this one already uses so it should be fairly easy even for someone like me to make (xD).

Thanks so much TB, that really does look like it'd fit the bill just perfectly. I havn't even finnished adding naijastart nodes to all the maps. o.o
Got a few done, but today I've been out all day helping my brother move house (LOTS of big heavy furniture and beds >.<.

Cheers. -Hiro

[TheBear]

Woops sorry about that. I was messing around with two different tilesets and forgot which one I used in the end. I updated the download link above with the correct files.

I did have another idea though, that should be fairly easy to implement once this is done, to use that treasure hunter's map as a tile, and put all the nodes to warp places onto where they are on that map, so you know exactly where you're about to go.

Yeah that's what I was suggesting. I'm gonna work on that now...shouldn't take to long.

[Hiro]

Haha, its ok. Everyone makes mistakes some time. Redownloading.

Ooo, cheers man. I was expecting to have to do all that myself. xD

[Danger Mouse]

So, is this still a work in progress or is it completed? Guess I was confused as if you guys were done with it.

[Danger Mouse]

So i bothered to copy this over into my native aquaria mod folder (yes I renamed it) and it's all working great... just wondering, you think there's a way that we can link the menu so that you can go back to it any time in the mod without restarting the mod? Maybe make it be a new item? (a Map?)

[TheBear]

Had to drive up to Viriginia for a funeral just before Christmas so I haven't been around much of late. I'll try to finish the "swim around the map" map over the weekend.

[Danger Mouse]

Awesome!! GL TheBear, and Happy New Year!

[Hiro]

So i bothered to copy this over into my native aquaria mod folder (yes I renamed it) and it's all working great... just wondering, you think there's a way that we can link the menu so that you can go back to it any time in the mod without restarting the mod? Maybe make it be a new item? (a Map?)

Do you mean the 'index' map?

Load "index" to return to the map.

If you load 'index' it takes you back to the 'menu'.

BTW, I'm back. Did y'all miss me?

[Xiagan]

BTW, I'm back. Did y'all miss me?

Sure.

[Danger Mouse]

heh.. yeah I suppose I could just tab and load index whenever I want to change maps. *shrug* Was just thinking there could be a more enjoyable way of going about it so that you wouldn't have to pull up the editors tools. Since it IS a MOD.

[Guy]

Like what? Sing a song? You could do that actually...