How do you wall-map?

[BMR]

Just out of curiosity, how does everyone else do wall maps?


Method 01 Do all the walls by hand, edge by edge



Method 02 Use the box tool to wall up everywhere the player can't go



Method 03 A combination of the two



Method 04 Something else

[Spoonweaver]

I always just define default impassibility. I usually don't have a reason to alter things from there.

[Meowskivich]

Hm, well, I prefer method one, sometimes I exercise method 3, but most often in recent times I do just as spoony says and define default passability.
But being that I hate all the wallmap flashing, I'll roll with method 1.

[Meatballsub]

I always just define default impassibility. I usually don't have a reason to alter things from there.

This. By far the easiest way to do it IMO.

[Sparoku]

I always just define default impassibility. I usually don't have a reason to alter things from there.

Same here for the most part.

[FnrrfYgmSchnish]

What I always do is just set up default passability for all my tiles before I actually start working on maps. And then go in and manually edit the wallmapping for special cases ("walk through wall" type hidden passages, jumpable ledges of a type that also has non-jumpable versions, etc.) during/after tilemapping so everything works as intended.

(I'm kind of surprised "use default passability" isn't even one of the poll options...)

[BMR]

Heh, I suppose I'm the only one who doesn't use default passability at all then. I should prolly give it another shot considering pretty much everyone else uses it.

[marionline]

I'm usually using method 2, I guess I'm just lazy.

And with the new way of wallmapping in the editor where you can "fill" tiles for wallmapping, it's just way easier to use method 2.

Do you use large maps?
I one read that method 2 is not good for large maps.

[Bob the Hamster]

I usually use method 1, but sometimes method 2.

In wandering hamster I rarely ever use default passability, and I implemented the bitset for disabling default passability by default because I would get so annoyed when my hand-crafted walls would get messed up by default passability.

However, in some games, like Don't Eat Soap, I used default passability exclusively.

I guess it depends a lot on the complexity of my maptiles, the complexity of my layers, and how well I have planned my tiles out in advance.

[Willy Elektrix]

Method 2. I find the process of pressing space endlessly to be somewhat meditative.