Timeline Reader/Writer, lgmplugin

[sorlok_reaves]

Hello all,

Not sure exactly where this post should go, since the lgmplugin is halfway between Enigma and LGM. Anyway...

This code is commented out in lgmplugin's EFileWriter: (and similar code in Reader)

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// writers.put(Timeline.class,new TimelineIO());
I figure that I can write a timeline reader/write pretty easily (after all, Timelines parse from GM into LGM properly), but just wanted to check here first to see if there are any "gotchyas" ---any reason those lines were commented out in the first place.

Also, are there any best practices for data formats? E.g., is there already a Timeline file format that I should follow?

Thanks~

[Goombert]

https://github.com/enigma-dev/lgmplugin/issues/3

I would have done it by now too, but the format for timelines was never agreed upon. Objects are already binary, and I didn't want to write timelines the same way, because I don't even think objects should be. Since EGM is a ZIP compressed format anyway, there is no sense in having objects or timelines compressed in a manner that is hard to easily edit them in a text file editor.

[sorlok_reaves]

https://github.com/enigma-dev/lgmplugin/issues/3

I would have done it by now too, but the format for timelines was never agreed upon. Objects are already binary, and I didn't want to write timelines the same way, because I don't even think objects should be. Since EGM is a ZIP compressed format anyway, there is no sense in having objects or timelines compressed in a manner that is hard to easily edit them in a text file editor.

Oh, that kinda sucks. Well, upon further investigation, it seems that Timelines don't actually do anything in the code (action_set_timeline is nowhere to be seen), so perhaps I'll work on that while I wait for a format agreement.

[Goombert]

Yes the issue there is they need a way of being written by the compiler and compiled, the moments I believe have to link with objects like scripts, I don't know much about it, but yes at the current moment we don't support timelines at all. Josh needs to figure all that out, I think it's better to just wait for his new compiler really, timelines aren't a pressing issue really.