Will new tile properties apply to previous versions placed in the map editor?

MadManMoody

Greetings,

Not sure if this is a bug or functioning as intended. I am hoping for guidance/advice.

I have added a new property to some tiles in the voxel editor, and I would like this property to be applied to all previous tiles of the same kind I have already placed in the map editor. I noticed that in the map editor, these new properties are not included in the tiles unless I manually replace the tile with a different one, then "overwrite" the tile again.

I am led to believe this may be a bug, as appearance changes to the tile in the voxel editor will adjust accordingly when loading the map, just not the new tile properties. Closing the program or closing and reopening the map will not apply the properties either.

It would be a large undertaking to manually replace these tiles by overwriting them, so I apologize if my hesitancy to do that comes off as lazy.

Any guidance/assistance is appreciated. 😅

Slayer

MadManMoody certain entity features, such as properties, need to be added before adding the entity to the map.
If it's added/changed after placing the asset, these will need to be re-placed.

One way to avoid this (provided it's the map you start on) is to group all the map entities together in a group, and then add the properties and starting values on game start.

for $x in group["map_entities"] do
      $x.property["new_property"] = 0;
end;

MadManMoody

Slayer
Thanks for your advice!

It never occurred to me to try that. Your advice inspired me to modify my scripts to check the tile when building something on it and if the property doesn't exist to add it then.