Recent changes to feature-requests

Create tilemap/set from a large bitmap

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:55:37 -0000

Id would be great if it was possible to load a large bitmap (say, 1024x1024) that could be converted into a map and tileset while removing duplicate tiles.

Suppose the image is 1024x1024, just specify the tilesize - for example 16x16.
The map would be sliced into tiles of 16x16.
Then it should automaticly check tiles to see if duplicates can be removed (for example, calculate a hash of each tile and compare those).
This way it would be possible to draw a map in any paint program, import it in D2D, process it and any duplicate tiles (suppose there's a big blue sea in the middle of the image) would be magicly removed so only unique tiles would remain.

C++ Code Generation

David Ivins — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:50:10 -0000

I read a comment in the other code generation bug report that said the program "doesn't generate compilable code". However there are two bugs in the C++ code generation that seem like they could easily be fixed and the result is compilable code.

First, when creating the map array, the width and height are reversed, which gives a "too many initializers" error when compiling. When generating the source code, changing the output of line

int map_name[mapWidth][mapHeight] = ...

int map_name[mapHeight][mapWidth] = ...

will remove this error.

Second, when creating a map name, the name is not checked against a list of C++ reserved words. So if I choose the map title to be 'return' (or int, double, etc.) the code generated is:

int return[mapWidth][mapHeight] = ...

which causes a compiler error. Running a check for reserved words and simply adding a "_1" to the end of the reserved word variable name would solve this problem.

Both of these problems could also effect the other programming languages generated by the editor, however I don't have enough experience with C# or Actionscript to confirm.

Change "Add Tile" to "Append another Tile Library"

ResidentCaprice — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:50:58 -0000

Add Tile's function is to add in all the tiles from a previously created map's tile libary. Therefore its name should be changed to "Append (or Add) Another Tile Library" to remove ambiguity