Posted By Fastalanasa on 03/31/2008 5:51 PM
We like pretty pictures. So yes, post screenshots!
That's uncanny about the MindFusion control. I was using it for a test app I was creating. I had called it Visual MUD Studio. ;) Unfortunately, this control is pretty expensive. There's an open sourced component out there that basically does the same thing, but I wasn't able to get it working. I wish I remember the name.
I've got a surface drawing control I worked up for a mapper, it works by basically assigning some coordinates to a room and creating a link object that references two rooms and throwing it on the surface.
It isn't yet wrapped for external consumption, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to fix. You can (kind of) see it in action here: http://cyra.ws/mapper/tutorials.html under the Drawing link. The more auto-mapper like version is being built right now, actually, i'm working on integrating it into the "Walker" portion of that same mapper app. Of course, the problem is it's WPF, so 3.0 (3.5?) is required. The mapper app itself is at http://cyra.ws/mapper/publish.htm if you're truly, morbidly, curious to see it in action. It's a click once application so it updates whenever I publish a new version. I haven't open sourced it yet either, but the plan is to include a separate GUI that will generate a library of XAML and C# that you can use to create your own room and area meta-data descriptors, along with a templating engine so you can define your own file format outputs. This way it could theoretically be used on any codebase. ---
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