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

[Brian Fisher]

As soon as I pressed send, I realized maybe the issue here is that you don't
want the broken reference model at all - you want a completely different
model, that is a nearly identical mechanism... I guess what you want is to
say, I want an asset instance that uses assetID "blah" that exists even if I
don't have one on disk yet?

so it solves bootstrapping, but at the same time lets you edit that
bootstrapped item if you want?

I imagine it would be something like:
MapPouch.AddBootstrapObjectForAssetID("default", value)
where maybe value is optional?

... if that sounds good, what do you think of that name for it? basically I
want the name to be as clear as possible about what it does - it's setting
what value you should get for an asset of a particular id if it doesn't
exist on disk yet...

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
wrote:

> 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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