Alternate Tile Editors

Lime
#1

Been messing around with Tiled and Lime and have found that creating polygons for complex shapes is quite painful in Tiled. Not the fault of lime but some missing features in Tiled. I sent a feature request for polygon editing and lines (among other things). Polygons would be helpful for physics shapes and lines for AI paths. The developer said development is fairly slow with only two of them and offered to have me contribute… I’ve done C++ and QT development in the past so might.

But while looking around I found another editor that had the poly features but properties on a layer (so more layers would be needed). File saves as xml and Lua exporters can be written to output in whatever format. Had some funky behavior on my machine but it might just be a learning curve or an overworked machine.

http://dambots.com/dame-editor/ [import]uid: 8800 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 305989[/import]

#2

I am interested in the prospect of being able to use different editors but might be a while before I could support it as I want to get all the other main issues sorted first.

The link doesn’t work, the site seems to be down? [import]uid: 5833 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 20580[/import]

#3

Site was up last night and this morning for me (MST).

Maybe I could write an exporter for DAME that puts out Tiled for tilemaps and something else for paths and shapes. [import]uid: 8800 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 20587[/import]

#4

It’s back up for me now, must have been a temporary thing.

If you would be able to write an exporter out to the TMX format then that would be fantastic! Not sure how to deal with the paths and shapes though, maybe it could automatically create all the objects and properties that you would normally have to create in Tiled? [import]uid: 5833 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 20593[/import]

#5

DAME editor supports more features, I think it is worth to try. [import]uid: 12088 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 24643[/import]

#6

I will certainly look into it. [import]uid: 5833 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 24893[/import]

#7

After playing around with it, I find DAME baffling and the documentation insufficient to figure out how to use it. What file formats can it import? [import]uid: 1560 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 25005[/import]

#8

16.Supports jpg,png and bmp

did you read the wiki ?
http://damehelp.dambots.com/index.php/Tutorials

you can try to open the example project in Help -> Samples -> Load Sample 1 (Flixel)

I agree it is not easy to use compared to “tiled”, but it supports drawing polygons and splines, sprite rotating etc
[import]uid: 12088 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 25031[/import]

#9

It does look like it would be a nice editor to use as an alternative alongside Tiled however for now I want to focus on getting Lime to a non-beta state that fully supports Tiled. Once that is sorted I will start thinking more about other editors as well. [import]uid: 5833 topic_id: 5989 reply_id: 25214[/import]