#tileeditor

Does any of that sound sensible? Do you have any links to resources you could share?

This decision should not impact me too much as I isolated the code that is drawing things from just about everything else so change should be quite localised.  But I don’t think I need to target devices without webgl support.

Available out-of-the-box cursors you can see here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor

The last few weeks I have put more consistent effort in.  Tracking progress in Trello has helped focus me and it is energising to see things being checked off and progress being made that I might not realise is being made.

Remember that thingy I've been posting about recently (or not so recently, due to school)? Well, a friend of mine and I decided we're going to vamp it up a notch: We're going to really sit down and focus on it - we're going to enter it in Microsoft's Imagine Cup. What this essentially means is that there are official plans to turn this into something big. I don't want to say more to ruin the surprise, but I sincerely hope that it'll blow your socks off (and if you're a game developer, hopefully you'll find it useful!). I'll share more details in a few weeks. Right now there's going to be a strong focus on laying out the design and submitting a proposal, and after we hear back from our submission I can spill some more details. Another short post again; I apologize. But hopefully I'll be able to start writing longer posts soon. Until then! -ABadCoder

There! In the first screenshot you can see a few tiles that I put down to create two shadows; the second one you can see the upper panel in a turquoise color, which will eventually host a few more tools - the one that's being worked on right now is the active layer tool (I'll explain a bit more about this in a minute). Currently you can only scroll through the tiles to view more of them, but I plan to eventually add a scroll bar on the right for those who prefer it. Now - as for the active layer system: Essentially all it will be is a system that allows you to layer your tilemaps. I'm leaning towards adding a hard cap of 3-4 layers which can be switched between via 1-4 on the keyboard (hotkeys) or by clicking on them - they will be displayed on the tools panel. The alternative is to have a dropdown menu via which you can add as many layers as you like, but I feel like that may become redundant. If enough people used it and wanted me to loosen the layer cap I could work on it. Other than that... Not too much that's immediately concerning has happened lately. Mostly working on cleaning up my code (still) and making sure it's not a mess moving forward. I'd like to have a clean foundation before I start getting [potentially] crazy with it. Adding restraints so you can't scroll the tiles off the menu, making sure I'm not using a lazy hard cap, etc. Things that'll make my life easier. Good things. I think. I hope you think so, too. :) See ya around! -ABadCoder P.S: Trying to tag things "C#" is a pain in my side because of the hashtag. This language was so cool it was using hashtags before hashtags were even a thing. Stop trying to tell me #C# is just #C, Internet!

Now, perhaps the most obvious difference between #1 and #2 is the sudden disappearance of the very rudimentary HUD. This is done with a simple right-click, allowing the user to quickly and fluently switch between a full view of the map they are editing and to also edit behind the HUD without the need to scroll. The second difference you may notice is that the bright shade of blue in Screenshot #2 is not on my tile textures. And you are correct to notice that. It is the result of the user choosing map dimensions (in the console window) that result in a map smaller than the screen, allowing the user to make even small maps such as perhaps a house or a small room in a dungeon. I'd like this editor to be flexible for just about any sort of tile editing without the need for a poor developer to burn their eyes out staring at and editing 2D arrays. Current functionality allows you to right-click to show/hide the HUD, left-click (you may also hold LMB) to paint your selected tile, and use the arrow keys (with plans to add WASD soon) to scroll across your map, given its bigger than your window. The editor currently exports the map as a 2D array; I want to toy with this some more before saying too much to try to find a method as flexible and simplistic as possible. Plans for future functionality include support for larger spritesheets (this along with toying with the export file are the two things I will do before considering releasing it). I would like to add a zoom/full-map view, multi-layer editing (so you could paint pretty flowers and static buildings on your map, hooray!), and if I'm feeling ambitious, a port to a full Windows Store app (because if you're developing on your mobile device, you're one hardcore gamedev and I salute you). That's it for today methinks. Game on! -ABadCoder