melonbomber

A Lua script for MechanicalMind/melonbomber that loads maps from bitmap files

Setup

1. Create the folder garrysmod/data/melonbomber. This is where bitmap data goes.
2. Create the folder garrysmod/lua/melonbomber/maptypes. This is where your custom maptype scripts go. (See this page)
3. Copy gridmap.lua to garrysmod/lua/includes/modules

Create a map

Create the map file

Maps are given as plaintext files. For example:

bbbbbbbb
b      b
b      b
b      b
bbbbbbbb

This creates a boring arena with a section of boxes in the corner.

The allowed characters are:

• b: box
• w: wall
• h: hard box
• e: explosive box

Save your map file to garrysmod/data/melonbomber/my_map.txt.

Create the Lua script

require("gridmap")

map.name = "MyMap"
map.description = "My custom map"

function map:generateMap(grid)
    map = gridmap.load_map_data("melonbomber/my_map.txt")
    gridmap.generate(grid, map)
end

Save the contents of this file to garrysmod/lua/melonbomber/maptypes/my_map.lua