I must be in some kind of coding mood, as a little searching and some inspiration led me to make a RTS map editor.

I stumbled upon Lost Garden, which is a pretty interesting site if your into game making. The owner/artist happened to be giving away some graphics for pretty much free.

Then I found one package for a never finished Dune 2 clone type RTS. The original game, Hard Vacuum seemed really ambitious and cool…maybe why it was never done.

I have less ambitions but some different ideas to the game type.

But first I'm doing my first RTS engine.

So far I have the map editor mostly done, and I'm pretty happy with how it is. Maps are a tiny 64kb

I was thinking about adding in the map generator, but I'll have to define every tile…which…no thanks not today.

So what I have is a decent editor so far.

Left button - place

Right button - increase brush size (2-9)

Hold Shift - brush mode

B - toggle brush mode

Hold CTRL w/ Brush mode - brush sized stamp from tiles

Arrow keys - Move around.

C - toggle collision map display

Shift + F - fill screen with selected tile

CTRL + F - fill tile id under cursor with selected

Buttons that work…

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Download hv_revision_med.zip

Will comment this video later.