HowTo rC3 world maps
As last year's, this year's rC3 will feature a kind of 2D adventure, the rc3.world. This tutorial is intended to explain how assemblies can contribute their own maps and content. For any remaining questions, don't hesitate to contact us via mail; we'll do our best to extend this page.
To exchange with others there is a channel in the public chat.
Meta Information
Disclaimer
This tutorial is "work in progess" and may be occasionally updated, checking it from time to time is recommended.
Known Bugs
The following bugs are already known, and we're working on resolving them:
- Exits on the far right end of a map don't work.
- Loading a tileset twice (with the same name) results in interesting rendering bugs (e.g. missing tiles in WorkAdventure)
Quick overview
Limitations
Instances wont scale indefinitely, please keep that in mind while building maps. Even if the infrastructure itself could handle a high number of clients on a single map, workadventure will still attempt to render all avatars at the same time, to the point that browsers (and network connections) won't be able to keep up. From experience, the limit appears to be around 200 players. Please keep that in mind when designing maps.
Even so, map size is relatively independent from simple user count, and can be set flexibly. Maps at around 50x50 tiles seem to be pretty fine; maps at around 500x500 tiles will take a non-trivial time to load. In general we recommend against unreasonably large maps, so visitors won't get "lost" in them and still have a chance to stumble across each other.
Please don't use any tilesets whose textures are larger than 4096x4096 pixels; rendering errors may occur otherwise, depending on browser and WebGL support
As last year, links leaving the event will be prefixed with a dereferrer ("you are now leaving the event area").
Scripts
You can use all features included in workadventure's
"scripting api extra";
these will all be supported by rc3.world, except for using variables within links
to any kind of ressource (e.g. in the openWebsite property). Additionally,
please note that due to the large amount of review this would necessitate,
including your own self-written javascript will only be possible upon request
(send an email to world@rc3.world).
Starter-Kit
We will again offer a map building starter kit containing a simple map repository which you can clone, use as inspiration, or fork and use as the basis for your own map. However, it is — as well as corresponding tilesets — still a work in progress and will be published here once it is done.