ddraft-cmd-tool 0.1.1

Command line tools to organize and pack DungeonDraft custom assets

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Creating a Project

Installing this package adds a command-line tool that can be called from the terminal, called draft. You should be able to use draft --help to get a list of commands available. The general workflow is as follows:

Create a new project directory and navigate to that directory in your terminal. Use the draft init command to initialize a new DungeonDraft project. If you follow all the default options, like so:

$ draft init
Please enter information for your config file. These can be changed later.
Author: Jacob Lee
Pack Name: Example-DungeonDraft-Pack
Do you want to generate a new pack id now? Y/n: y
Your pack id is: YqtFEhSN
Where do you want to put packed assets? Leave empty to use the default: /home/jacoblee/Projects/Dungeondraft-Asset-Packs/resources/asset-tool/test/example-project/packed-assets
Would you like to create a workspace in /home/jacoblee/Projects/Dungeondraft-Asset-Packs/resources/asset-tool/test/example-project/workspace for asset development? This is optional, but may be useful. Y/n: y
New project initialized

it will create a folder structure like the following:

.
├── .draft
│   └── config.ini
├── packed-assets
├── unpacked-asset-tree
│   ├── data
│   │   ├── tilesets
│   │   └── walls
│   └── textures
│       ├── caves
│       ├── lights
│       ├── materials
│       ├── objects
│       ├── paths
│       ├── roofs
│       ├── terrain
│       ├── tilesets
│       │   ├── simple
│       │   ├── smart
│       │   └── smart_double
│       └── walls
└── workspace
    ├── drafts
    │   ├── caves
    │   ├── lights
    │   ├── materials
    │   ├── objects
    │   ├── paths
    │   ├── portals
    │   ├── roofs
    │   ├── terrains
    │   ├── tilesets
    │   │   ├── simple
    │   │   ├── smart
    │   │   └── smart_double
    │   └── walls
    ├── notes
    └── resources

So what are these?

.draft directory

This is the directory where configuration and logs are written. The init command created a file called config.ini. In this example, that file would look like:

[PROJECT]
name = Example-DungeonDraft-Pack
id = YqtFEhSN
author = Jacob Lee
workspace = /home/jacoblee/Projects/Dungeondraft-Asset-Packs/resources/asset-tool/test/example-project/workspace
packed_assets_dir = /home/jacoblee/Projects/Dungeondraft-Asset-Packs/resources/asset-tool/test/example-project/packed-assets

which includes the name of your asset project, the asset pack ID, and author information. It also gives the full paths to two special directories, which we'll discuss next. Although the file can be manually edited, it is intended that the tool be used to manage this and other files.

Packed Assets Directory

This is the directory where .dungeondraft_pack files are written when you use the draft pack command. I don't recommend you change this (and I haven't tested it anywhere else). Copy files from here to anywhere you need them, or point DungeonDraft's asset directory here.

Unpacked Asset Tree Directory

This directory is where the unpacked asset goes. While you can edit, add, and remove these files directly, this tool is intended to make the management of an asset easier. There is no guarantee that things will work correctly if ad-hoc custom changes are made outside of use of the tool.

Workspace Directory

This directory is intended as the place for you to do all the messy creative stuff you do, keeping the unpacked asset tree clean. You don't have to use it, but it is intended to be a reasonable, if opinionated, way of organizing your workspace. The tool does not assume that this directory exists.

Managing a Project

Adding an asset

To add an asset to the project, you use the draft add command. It requires three arguments, the asset type, the asset-key-name you'd like to use, and the path to the asset. e.g.

draft add wall dank-stone workspace/drafts/walls/dank-stone-wall-version-3.0.1.png

Assuming (of course), that there is a matching dank-stone-wall-version-3.0.1_end.png file, this will add the following to the unpacked-asset-tree/textures/walls directory:

dank-stone.png
dank-stone_end.png

and create an appropriate corresponding data file unpacked_asset-tree/data/walls/dank-stone.dungeondraft_wall.

Removing an asset

To remove an asset, call draft remove command. This takes two arguments. The asset-type and the asset-key-name. To remove the dank-stone-wall asset, you'd use the command:

draft remove wall dank-stone

Listing your assets

Use the draft list command to see what assets are in the unpacked asset tree.

Creating thumbnails

When you are ready to pack, if you want to, you can use this tool to create thumbnails, currently implemented only for terrain and for tilesets. This will create larger, close-up, thumbnails that can be embedded in the packed asset. Note: the thumbnail filenames use the pack id. If you change the pack id, you will need to regenerate the thumbnails (because the filenames will change).

To create thumbnails, use the command:

draft thumbify

This will create a directory in the unpacked asset tree called thumbnails

Packing your asset

Packing your assets is easy. Simply use the command:

draft pack [version]

The rest of the information (name, author, etc.) are in the draft tool's config file.

e.g.

draft pack 1.0.1

will create a new pack file in the packed-assets directory.