what you would like to see in an lvl editor

[Jerome Scuggs]

I don't mean you have to but you know

Then again, a TW-custom map editor would be something unique and nifty.

[Overburn]

well, I needed an idea for an icon anyways (my old one looked like a demented albino alligator). Since TW is awsome, and my program is awsome, they just have to go together, some how

[arwen_7]

eh.. make it a bit more user friendly ? cuase i dont have a clue as to how the one i have just now works

[Toasty]

lol arwen!

[Overburn]

eh.. make it a bit more user friendly ? cuase i dont have a clue as to how the one i have just now works

lol, whats the name of your editor?

mine will be super easy to use.

[Awesome]

Im currently making an .lvl editor, and I wanted to get an idea of what kind of crazy fetures it should have in it. I already have a short list of things I'm going to include, but Im sure there are alot of diffrent, interesting, ones that I havent though of yet. Post your ideas!!!

my current list:
>an option that lets you type the text onto the map (without having to continuosly click back and fourth between the tiles)
>an option that lets you import (monochrome) pictures, so you dont have to spend hours drawing it by hand.
>an option that lets you draw with those 4x4 square-dealys, but instead of continually switching between the correct tiles, you just draw, and it will automatically choose the right tiles (idk, its kinda hard to explain)

yup, that all I can think of besides the basic fetures (copy, paste, etc).
GIVE ME IDEAS!!!!

i've wanted the first 2 features you mentioned in an .lvl editor for a long time... it'd be great if you could make one

as for the 3rd one, you can already do that in SSME.... you click the rectangular "Select" tool and use it to select a large rectangular region. Then while selected, click the "Fill" tool. it's pretty easy. that's why the fill tool exists.

but the first 2 idea's are great. i'd love to see something like that implemented in a .lvl editor

[Overburn]

as for the 3rd one, you can already do that in SSME.... you click the rectangular "Select" tool and use it to select a large rectangular region. Then while selected, click the "Fill" tool. it's pretty easy. that's why the fill tool exists.

I dont think we are thinking about the same thing. its kind of hard for me to explain the feature, but Im pretty sure noone has done it yet.

EDIT: these tile things:


when you draw with the option on, it will automatically select the right tiles from the mini-tileset above (just an example) - like if you drew a straight line with the single block in the corner of the mini-tileset, and with the feture on, it would automatically change the ends of the line to the bottom left tile and the second-to-right bottom tile (in the picture) then it would automatically change the middle section of the line to the tile inbetween the two tile I just mentioned.

yea, its kindof hard for me to explain

[Dameon Angell]

I know what you're talking about


On the tile editor you have a tile for ...

Upper Left Corner
Upper Right Corner
Lower Left Corner
Lower Right Corner
Vertical
Horizontal

His square tool will change the upper left corner of the square into the tile that corresponds to the area.

[Overburn]

yea, but it wont be limited to just drawing squares, you could draw circles and stuff, also freehand drawing.

[Overburn]

is it just me or is that image I posted broken?

[qan]

Just glanced at the thread, so maybe someone already said this, but support for tilesets greater than 8 bits would be cool. Currently SSME only allows for 256 colors, whereas Continuum .38+ can handle up to 32bit tilesets/millions of colors. You have to do a poor man's workaround to use high-color tilesets with it (http://www.kolumbus.fi/sakari.aura/contmapdevguide.html).

[Overburn]

I could do that, I was just planning to do 256 colors becasue thats all I thought continuum would accept. lol

yea Ill add support for diffrent color modes.

[Send]

I want an option where you can select a certain amount of tiles and then rotate it, then you can tile it yourself, but at least rotate it:P

[Overburn]

yup, ill add that

[qan]

Ooo, that just made me think of something else. It would be excellent to have a way to map tiles so that you can copy, paste, and then flip all the tiles without them being reversed. This would be an amazing feature, and since a lot of maps are symmetrical, it'd cut down building time a lot.

Ugh, that doesn't make much sense. Well, ok -- in SSME, if you do a flip of this tile arrangement (or half-assed ASCII representation of a tile arrangement):

>>>>>\
||........
||........
>>>>>/

then you get this:

\>>>>>
........||
........||
/>>>>>

Meaning everything's pointing the wrong way, etc. If instead you could open up a little flip tool where you could specify two tiles as the horizontal or vertical "mirror" of one another, you'd get this:

/<<<<<
........||
........||
\<<<<<


Since / is the horizontal mirror of \, so when the flip is done, all instances of / are replaced by \, > replaced by <, and so on.

If you had that feature, I would be hard pressed to use any other editor.