tilemap editor for allegro on linux.

tilemap editor for allegro on linux.

relay01

Member #6,988

March 2006

afaik Mappy is only for windows... which sucks because i'm not developing on windows. Any equivalent that's possibly multiplatform?

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23yrold3yrold

Member #1,134

March 2001

There's my MapSlapper program .... it's kinda beta though and uses Win32 .... if you're bored you could make a pure Allegro version since it's open source.

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miran

Member #2,407

June 2002

There's this TEGEL thing you could try out. It's quite good.

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Hano Wair

Member #5,243

November 2004

You can compile Mappy from source on Linux, which is what I did quite a while ago. I don't know how it compares with the Windows version though. IIRC the interface wasn't nice at all so I got frustrated with it and removed it from my PC.

vpenquerch

Member #233

April 2000

There is http://annie.kezako.net/eme/ as well,
which is a native Linux tile editor with a lot of functionality
and you can write your own plugin/map format if you can't get
the one you want with the supplied default plugin.

Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

I just write my own mapmaker app. With some work, you can make something very versatile.

relay01

Member #6,988

March 2006

TEGEL does look really good... and I don't think I'm a good enough progammer to write my own... although I want to add support for it in my game... I also may try and compile mappy on linux... oh the posibilities...

Anyway... thanks for the help... and my game design continues...

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Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

Writing it is no problem. I ~~stink~~ at programming, but I have already written one. Here is some sample code, but untested, using Allegro and the mouse:

if (mouse_b & 1)
{
     tile[mouse_x/TILE_SIZE][mouse_y/TILE_SIZE] = this_tile;
}

nest that within a test to see if the mouse is in the map preview, and poof!, you have a map maker. Use file_select_ex() to save it, then add another part of the window to let the player select a tile to paint, like this:

if (mouse_b & 1)
{
     this_tile = tile_set[mouse_x/TILE_SIZE];
}

for a horizontal selector, or this:

if (mouse_b & 1)
{
     this_tile = tile_set[mouse_y/TILE_SIZE];
}

for a vertical selector.

Anyway, it shouldn't be too hard.