Associating Enemies with polylines

[bjorn (Thorbjørn Lindeijer)]

@Excelcius

Hi Bjorn but wouldn’t that mean I would have to manually name each object and polygon pair ?

Right, you could name the object and then add a custom property to the polyline that tells you what object it is associated with.

@Excelcius

I understand how to edit the tileset properties, so each added instance of an object already has the property ready to give it a value, but I don’t know how to do that for polygons / polylines. Also most of my polygons are scenery over the tiles and not paired with objects so it would be a be a bit of a waste to add that custom property to ALL polygons.

For polylines you could give them a type like “path”, and based on this type you can predefine a string “object” property in the Object Types Editor. Of course, you would only give the ones that are actually paths this type. You can also specify a custom color for this type so that these polyline paths are easier to recognize.

@Excelcius

Not to mention the inevitable misnamed pair errors I would get, or am I not understanding what your saying correctly?

For this you should probably add some log / error message to your game so that you will notice when a certain polyline specifies an enemy name (or ID) that isn’t found, as well as when it detects multiple polylines are pointing to the same enemy.