#2 Wolfenstein 3D Clone Tutorial: Level Loading

In this video, we create a way to load our level into the game engine.

[Fangornmmc]

Hey, you are doing all this for free, don't allow yourself to get pressured, I know that probably wasn't TheAssien's intent, but just upload when you feel like it ;)

Many thanks for all the great tutorials Benny!

[SamBrev]

its so funny watching you solve an obvious problem eg. when you set pixels up as a method

[curtcurtcurtis]

This is probably something that's completely obvious but just occurred to me the other day. A little trick to sort of obfuscate your level data in a .png is to just copy paste it and rename it with a .dat, and a file reader reads in the data exactly the same way. Also, benny if you haven't already seen libgdx you might wanna take a peek at some of its classes on github. Might be a few useful ideas you want to include in your awesome engine =)

[SkukS]

You can always tell where he joins the videos together :D

[SriHarshaChilakapati]

Thanks for clarification. Not related to this topic but do you know how to load COLLADA format levels? I made some of them for a 3D platform game for a friend. Can you point to some tutorials on that format? Also I can say that the collision logic is operating on two dimensions only. Can you show how to extend it to third dimension?

[michaelmarsh]

Hey benny, are you still going to continue making the 3D engine? eg make a player model and add guns

[shahbazmomi]

The best way for me is to make an Object[][][] and then using FileOutputStream, output it and if it isn't serializable, then just implement java.io.Serializable. that way the file is stored as a binary file.

[TheLetsplayminecraft]

Can you possibly downgrade the phong shader to an older version of opengl like you did with the basic shaders?

[SriHarshaChilakapati]

Why not use simple txt files instead of images?

[Neb]

For some reason, it doesn't accept i or j as variables... any help on this?

[SamBrev]

isn't it much more reasonable to have bitmap.pixels as a java.awt.color[][] rather than an int[]? after all, it has two dimensions, and it is a colour rather than a number

[BlackJar]

I like to have classes with names like TestingStuff.java...

[biffbttf]

-1 cause -1 =
-16777216 might be 0xFF0000

[SkukS]

What is the point of obfuscating the data though? You want to encourage people to develop maps for the game, not make it harder!

[DemonicGaming]

Would the concepts be the same if I watched the tutorials but made my own different game

[DemonicGaming]

When I run the program, I get this warning message:

javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
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Why?

[Oldnite]

Benny why exactly do you make 10-15 minute video's? I feel like your limiting yourself alot in telling us valueable information. I wouldn't mind watching a 30 minute video, because if someone is interested in this stuff people shouldn't mind watching that..

[DemonicGaming]

Well I was thinking of making a horror game