User:Chaosteil/Galaxy Stations/File format

Local data for Galaxy Stations will be stored on the SD card, under the /data/galaxystations directory.

• /data/galaxystations/
  • servername/
    • stations/
      • awesomestation/
      • otherdatathatisnotastation/
        • ablanktile.png
    • player/
  • preferences.txt/xml

Keep in mind there will probably only be one server.

As you can see, each (cached) station is stored as a directory. This structure will look like the following:

• awesomestation/
  • images/
  • sounds/
  • music/
  • scripts/
  • layers/
    • background.bin
    • level.bin
  • station.txt/xml/whatever
  • collision.bin

The directories can be anything, I just gave that as an example. The important part is station.txt/xml/whatever, a structured plaintext file, XML for example. Here is what I plan for it to look like (XML here)

<galaxystation>
  <layer z=-1>
    <binarytiles rel="layers/background.bin" />
  </layer>
  <collision>
    <blockbitmap rel="collision.bin" />
  </collision>
  <sprites>
    <sprite z=0>
      <pos x=42 y=69 />
      <png rel="images/switch.png" />
      <action>
        <lua call="killplayer()" />
      </action>
    </sprite>
  </sprites>
</galaxystation>

To be continued...