My map editor crashes.

Hi.

I wanted to made a game with different levels, so

i needed to create an editor first,

but everytime i run it, it crashes.

<img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

It is a 480x320 window, the layer is 8192x8192

(32 (one block)* 256 (- i wanted to have a big maps))

Is problem here?

It is too big?

uloz.to/xBptFXg/cw-lvl-edit-cap -is the .cap

--> password is "construct"

(I'm sorry if someone had the same problem before)

(sry for my english - i'm not a native speaker)

It is crashing because your array is sized 8192 x 8192 which apparently takes up 1gb of memory.

I changed it to 256 x 256 because that is the amount of tiles you want in your map. Also, 8192 x 8192 = 67,108,864 objects!

After making the change your program starts again.

Ok, but 256x256(px) is small - it is 8x8 blocks isn't it?

(perhaps i dont understood what you wanted to say me)

EDIT: ok, i have it now, thanks a lot.

(before i didn't seened the word array <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> )

Now everythinkgs is like i needed to be.

If your array must be 8192x8192 you might consider using other data storage such as .INIs or Hashtables so that empty cells are not accounted for.

Or you can stream portions of the map. Eg: each map is a folder of text files numbered 0 to max like an array, then each segment you are in you load the text file on-the-fly to prepare the next area, maybe have 3 edges loaded at once so the player can always walk into another one without noticing.

It is really good idea jayjay, thanks.

maybe i will use it in the future, but now, i think, that

256x256 is large enought. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />