FontMap Level Creator Released

[AdamStrangeParticipant]

The first version (V1.04) has now been released:

this can be downloaded along with full file information here:
FontMap V1.04

This allows multiple map with different resolutions to be created.
Monkey2 source is included for use in your own projects

[AdamStrangeParticipant]

Here is the FileFormat details:
– header –
(4 bytes) int = -9999

(4 bytes) int = number of layers

– layer data –
(4 bytes) int = width of layer (0 aligned)

(4 bytes) int = height of layer (0 aligned)

starting from top left, data is read down the height, then across to the next x cell and continues down until all data is read

– cell data –
(2 bytes) short = map character (referencing the character font)

(2 bytes) short = color reference (referencing the color palette)

and here is the monkey2 code to read in the data

Monkey

[crayon-5cb9c87a706ee455493970 inline="true" ] 'a map file can contain up to 32 maps with a resolution of 128x128 field _tileMap:short[, , ] = New short[32, 128, 128] field _colorMap:short[, , ] = New short[32, 128, 128] method Load( filePath:string ) Print "loading..." Local fStream:Stream = Stream.Open( filePath, "r" ) If not fStream Then Print filePath + " not opened" Return End If local id:int = fStream.ReadInt() If id <> -9999 Then Print filePath + " ID error" fStream.Close() Return End If local layers:int = fStream.ReadInt() Local k:int For k = _mapLayer To _mapLayer+layers-1 If k < 32 Then LoadLayer( fStream, k ) End If Next fStream.Close() End method method LoadLayer( Stream:Stream, layer:int ) _loadX = Stream.ReadInt() _loadY = Stream.ReadInt() Print "layer "+layer+" size is "+(_loadX+1)+" "+(_loadY+1) Local rt:short Local cl:short Local x:int Local y:int For x = 0 To _loadX For y = 0 To _loadY cl = Stream.ReadShort() rt = Stream.ReadShort() If x < 128 And y < 128 Then _tileMap[ layer, x, y] = Clamp( int(cl), 0, 255 ) _colorMap[ layer, x, y] = Clamp( int(rt), 0, 255 ) End if Next Next end method

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[crayon-5cb9c87a706ee455493970 inline="true" ] 'a map file can contain up to 32 maps with a resolution of 128x128 field _tileMap:short[, , ] = New short[32, 128, 128] field _colorMap:short[, , ] = New short[32, 128, 128]   method Load( filePath:string ) Print "loading..."   Local fStream:Stream = Stream.Open( filePath, "r" ) If not fStream Then Print filePath + " not opened" Return End If local id:int = fStream.ReadInt() If id <> -9999 Then Print filePath + " ID error" fStream.Close() Return End If   local layers:int = fStream.ReadInt() Local k:int For k = _mapLayer To _mapLayer+layers-1 If k < 32 Then LoadLayer( fStream, k ) End If Next fStream.Close() End method   method LoadLayer( Stream:Stream, layer:int ) _loadX = Stream.ReadInt() _loadY = Stream.ReadInt() Print "layer "+layer+" size is "+(_loadX+1)+" "+(_loadY+1) Local rt:short Local cl:short Local x:int Local y:int For x = 0 To _loadX For y = 0 To _loadY cl = Stream.ReadShort() rt = Stream.ReadShort() If x < 128 And y < 128 Then _tileMap[ layer, x, y] = Clamp( int(cl), 0, 255 ) _colorMap[ layer, x, y] = Clamp( int(rt), 0, 255 ) End if Next Next end method

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[nerobotParticipant]

Great!

[Abe _King_Participant]

I like it! It looks like a very straightforward app to use.

I have some questions/suggestions:
– Are you going to be adding many more convenience features?
– Are you going to be considering non-tiled map features?
– Would you add multi-level management? IE: Easily keep reusable things between multiple level files

The biggest thing for me is probably non tiled like features! Then maybe down the road a polygon editor of sorts.

[AdamStrangeParticipant]

convenience features

What have you in mind?

Easily keep reusable things between multiple level files

Again, what are your suggestions on this?

non-tiled map features?

Such as?

[Abe _King_Participant]

Sorry for the vagueness! I took a look at your project, pretty nice! Hope to make something of this caliber in the future myself :). The color selection wasn’t updating after a while of clicking through the gradients for some reason though. Also, sometimes the view would get extremely stretched by changing the xres or yres until I pressed the “layer” or “square” button.

So convenience features would be like:
– Select a group of tile then, using a rectangle tool, have that selection repeated through the rectangle or even some varient of a nine slice drag?
– Fill tool
those are just for starters

Non-tiled features would be like:
– Elements not aligned to a grid
– Elements which can be rotated and scaled

Multi-level management:
– would be like a project in an ide
– have all resources used in the files found in the project in memory while working between maps, or making new ones

Good luck with your project

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