Is there a way to laying out sprites, buttons in a visual editor?

Other Third-Party Tools
#1

I’m very new to CoronaSDK and took a look at some of the 3rd Party tools but I am not sure which one lets me lay out sprites, and UI gadgets, such as buttons via a Visual Editor.

I’m making a game which requires a lot of UI interaction, and I’m currently doing it in cocos2d and I use cocosbuilder simply for laying out content (not for reading because I find that it doesn’t work too well when I want to read files in).

The amount of content I need to make is really beginning to dawn on me, and I’m thinking of switching to corona just to get the game finished.

I’m wondering if there is a 3rd party tool to aid the laying out of sprites?

The biggest feature I’m looking for is button handling, such as giving me hooks to allow me to program these features in.

LevelEditor looks good, but I do not know whether it handles button gadgets / UI interactivity.

Any recommendations on this would be cool.

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#2

levelHelper or physics editor will probably be the closest to what you desire. Also keep in mind Corona is rolling out there own level editor like next month which should have most or all the features you desire: I don’t know the exact date. [import]uid: 75779 topic_id: 29031 reply_id: 116831[/import]

#3

Oh cool. But do they actually handle button layout and allow me to handle what to with it, ala CocoBuilder?

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#4

I *think* level helper might do that - though maybe rmckee can confirm?

RE sprites and laying them out, texture packer is awesome at that. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 29031 reply_id: 116848[/import]

#5

Okay, cool. Thanks for this. [import]uid: 13559 topic_id: 29031 reply_id: 116884[/import]