Tutorial from scratch

[HarleyDavidson]

Hi there!
At first, thank you very much for developing this great piece of software.

I watched several of the official tutorials on youtube, but these are all zelda-themed.

Is there a tutorial for developing a game from scratch?
Like creating a tilemap, generating the first map,
implementing a hero, treasures, items, npc?

I did not found anything. If there's really nothing at this point, I will document my process
and write a tutorial.

[Christopho]

We are working on a non Zelda resource pack, but at this point it not finished enough to make a full game with it or to make a lot of tutorials.
You have to create your own tilesets and sprites.

[HarleyDavidson]

So I created a new quest and deleted everything (sprites, maps, entities and so on)
except my hero and my map with tileset.
The game starts, but the console displays:

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Info: Solarus 1.5.1
Info: Opening quest 'C:/Users/admin/Dropbox/SolarusQuests/meinQuest'
Info: Sound volume: 100
Info: Music volume: 100
Info: Joypad support enabled: true
Info: 2D acceleration: yes
Info: Turbo mode: no
Info: Video mode: normal
Info: LuaJIT: yes (LuaJIT 2.0.3)
Info: Language: en
Info: Lua console: yes
Info: Simulation started
Error: Cannot find quest file 'sprites/hero/tunic1.dat'
Error: Cannot find quest file 'sprites/entities/shadow.dat'
Error: Cannot find quest file 'sprites/hero/sword1.dat'
Error: Cannot find quest file 'sprites/hero/sword_stars1.dat'
Error: Cannot find quest file 'sprites/hero/trail.dat'
Error: Missing entities image for tileset 'TileSet': tilesets/TileSet.entities.png


I cannot find any links to these files mentioned in the error messages.
Why are they shown?
Please see the attached zip file

[Christopho]

You cannot just delete all sprites and hope the game will work correctly. Some sprites are required for the game to run correctly, in particular hero sprites.

[HarleyDavidson]

Ok, so these files are linked to the engine internally.
My quest starts and works without any errors so far (it is only the main hero and one map).

I try to fix these errors my copying them out of the example quest. Thanks so far!

[Christopho]

Here is the exact list of filenames currently hardcoded in the engine: https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/blob/dev/work/data_files.txt

[HarleyDavidson]

Thank you!
This list is very helpful.
At this moment I'm watching your tutorials 

[zutokaza]

Here is the exact list of filenames currently hardcoded in the engine: https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/blob/dev/work/data_files.txt

Is there a list of hardcoded animation names?

I know "walking" and "stopped" are some hardcoded keywords.