I just finished a project, and am about to work on another one...I wanted some input from some smart people.
I have a habit of separating my files by room. So the first room I made, I called all the associated files room01. tiled file, room 01. rle file, room 01. etc. And I had 25 rooms, all names like this. But I added 5 rooms after I made the boss room 25...So now it goes like 23,24,26,27,28,29,30,25.
which is annoying, but I wrote a little note to myself, in a readme file, but still confusing.
and I'm thinking of this other project, and I planned 100 rooms, and the order is 100% going to be heavily rearranged. I already have half of rooms files done and named 01,02,03,etc....So if I rearrange the rooms, I will either have to rename every file...possibly multiple times, or keep a (error prone) readme file, explaining any rearranging, or some 3rd option that eludes me.
and it's far worse than that. I have endless arrays of room data, that will be a nightmare to rearrange by hand.
If I had put them in some kind of excel spreadsheet, and export to csv, and wrote some program to auto-generate an included file that would have worked better. I'm not even sure how to rearrange an excel file easily.
Is there some convenient way of managing a large project like this? like even the naming issue. It won't make sense if the rooms go 23,02,17,29,53,etc. how do you even have a conversation about room 6 if all the files are called room 51?
I have a habit of separating my files by room. So the first room I made, I called all the associated files room01. tiled file, room 01. rle file, room 01. etc. And I had 25 rooms, all names like this. But I added 5 rooms after I made the boss room 25...So now it goes like 23,24,26,27,28,29,30,25.
which is annoying, but I wrote a little note to myself, in a readme file, but still confusing.
and I'm thinking of this other project, and I planned 100 rooms, and the order is 100% going to be heavily rearranged. I already have half of rooms files done and named 01,02,03,etc....So if I rearrange the rooms, I will either have to rename every file...possibly multiple times, or keep a (error prone) readme file, explaining any rearranging, or some 3rd option that eludes me.
and it's far worse than that. I have endless arrays of room data, that will be a nightmare to rearrange by hand.
If I had put them in some kind of excel spreadsheet, and export to csv, and wrote some program to auto-generate an included file that would have worked better. I'm not even sure how to rearrange an excel file easily.
Is there some convenient way of managing a large project like this? like even the naming issue. It won't make sense if the rooms go 23,02,17,29,53,etc. how do you even have a conversation about room 6 if all the files are called room 51?