Awesome Idea

[Narks]

Multiplayer world editor.

Feasible?

 

[Sickle]

No.

 

[Nestharus]

Multiplayer world editor.

Feasible?

You mean a multi users WE? Yea.. that is possible actually... it'd just probably take you 1 or 2 years solo, so good luck with that ;P.

 

[Narks]

Well, I was talking to PurplePoot, and he reckons it's not as infeasible as it sounds. You just have to simulate user input, and then do some networking to synchronise all the team's WE's.

 

[Sickle]

It would take longer to properly coordinate simultaneous map making than it would to make a map like we always have.

 

[Tru_Power22]

It would take longer to make the program. If it worked it would be sweet.

 

[Narks]

It would take longer to properly coordinate simultaneous map making than it would to make a map like we always have.

rp maps: multiple people working on one large project.

 

[azareus]

rp maps: multiple people working on one large project.

Would go like this:
Person 1 makes something,
Person 2 deletes,
Person 3 Ctrl + Z's
Person 4 Delete it AGAIN
Person 1 flames Person 2 and 4
Person 2 and 4 flames back
etc.

 

[NindoOne]

Would go like this:
Person 1 makes something,
Person 2 deletes,
Person 3 Ctrl + Z's
Person 4 Delete it AGAIN
Person 1 flames Person 2 and 4
Person 2 and 4 flames back
etc.

Would still be sweet if you share a project with ONE friend, one goes Object / Terrain the other goes Triggers, maybe imports?

 

[Narks]

If your team deletes your own crap, my suggestion to you: get a new team.

But it's more for terraining - lots of people could fill up a map really fast.

 

[Tru_Power22]

Yes, but if they have a different "style" of terrain, it will look changing between section.

 

[Darthfett]

It would be cool to have real-time collaborative coding (not sure if it would be as great with anything but the code because of the lack of communication).

However, I think subversion would probably work better for something like this. Subversion is basically like a library: You put the project (book) on a server (library), and you check it in and out when you want to work on it (read it). Only one person can have it checked out at a time.

It would allow multiple people to work on the map without the hassle of passing the map around and finding an upload/download site.

The only thing it can't really do at the moment, is separate individual parts of the code (such as a single trigger) from the objects and from other parts of the code. With them separated, you could potentially have someone working on the units/items, and 3 people working on different parts of the code.

 

[Narks]

However, I think subversion would probably work better for something like this. Subversion is basically like a library: You put the project (book) on a server (library), and you check it in and out when you want to work on it (read it). Only one person can have it checked out at a time.

Yeah, I thought about this. Even this would be really good.


@Tru: Well, if people have different styles of terrain, generally they would agree to either conform to one style, or attempt to make the transition between each style smooth.

 

[nomadian]

hm along similar lines perhaps. There's a thing called Active Worlds- anyone could of sort of add/create content to a multiplayer world. It wasn't a multiplayer world editor, but it was a sort of museum type world of people's creative content.