Toon-o-Matic! 2!

The amazing Toon-o-Matic, take 2

OK. Here we go. What we do is recurse down through the panel structure (so we're following our panels in a time-like fashion), collecting drawing objects as we go. Characters and sound effects will be completely specified as drawing primitives; text will be generated into graphic files using _maketext, and each and every object in the lot will be fully specified during this phase.

%characters = ();
@visible = ();
@visible_next = ();
$panelnumber = 0;
scan_layout ($cartoon);

sub scan_layout {
   my $panel = shift;
   See Scanning a panel for layout items
}
See Miscellaneous functions for doing layout

Let's define the instantiate_character subroutine:

See Instantiating a visible character

So now, just for documentation and debugging, we write our final XML out to stdout. There will (later) be a follow-on step which will generate map HTML so we can include links in our cartoons, but that'll come later.

open O, ">layout.xml";
xml_write (O, $cartoon);
print O "\n";
close O;

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