[Dev] SVN: james/501 Math Marauders: Now saves any changes you make to the map

[James Paige]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:50:15AM -0700, Brian Fisher wrote:
>    The error is bad there - but I think the correct solution is to create a
>    new map in the editor that is connected to a file, and then edit it. The
>    broken asset is really intended to be a "hey! you have a bad asset
>    reference" object and to be a bootstrapping device (i.e. you can run it
>    long enough to create an asset)
> 
>    basically it might be nice to have a "save as" mechanic, but I don't see
>    how any such mechanic would be any less work than creating a new asset in
>    the editor?

It would be needed for something edited directly in the game window.

---
James

>    On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      I was running into problems when saving a not-yet-existing asset.
> 
>      Basically, I have a map asset which I create like so:
> 
>       map = AssetRef(BaseMap, "default")
> 
>      So "data/default.map" does not exist anymore, but it correctly uses the
>      _BrokenMap object when I play, so I have a map, but when I try to call
>      map.asset_save() it crashes because map has no .asset_metadata property.
>      (which makes sense, because this was not deserialized from disk)
> 
>      So I have worked around the  problem by manually creating default.map in
>      the editor, but is there some better way to say, "please save this
>      asset to disk even though it was not loaded from disk"
> 
>      You can reproduce the problem I was having by deleting data/default.map,
>      running main.py, and clicking anywhere (which triggers the
>      .asset_save() call)
> 
>      ---
>      James
>      On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:09:58AM -0700, subversion at HamsterRepublic.com
>      wrote:
>      > james
>      > 2008-04-11 11:09:57 -0700 (Fri, 11 Apr 2008)
>      > 58
>      > Math Marauders: Now saves any changes you make to the map
>      > ---
>      > A   marauders/data/default.map
>      > U   marauders/locals.py
>      > U   marauders/main.py
>      > U   marauders/map.py
>      >
>      >
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