Hi Guys,
Is there any others?
Regards,
Mila
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While there are many level editors out there, I think I’ll just wait until the official one comes out (in winter).
It’s your opinion.
Good Luck! [import]uid: 44110 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101072[/import]
It really depends on how much money you want to spend and what features you want 
If you can elaborate on those, we can offer suggestions. [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101166[/import]
What do you mean the official “Corona Level Editor” comes out in the Winter? I thought it was in Alpha now, and is due out in a couple weeks.
Thank you… [import]uid: 7197 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101287[/import]
I know what is this business about “winter” I haven’t heard anything about a release that late.
Carlos reached out and was asking people to test it out. I don’t know what happened since he left Ansca a couple days ago (if you didn’t know that, then BAM surprise!).
For level editors there are a few
SVG level editor
Level Helper
LIME
it’s pretty cool and not hard to work with. Documentation is OK and performance is good. Also, you can blend the code with your own code and make tweaks. You draw stuff in SVG inkscape, and it parses out the data to a lua file. Saves time, etc.
Level helper - This is an interesting one. I for one haven’t spent a ton of time, but realized this spits out code that is difficult to manage. Meaning it’s hard to “bolt” on stuff to it as the code it puts out is odd. It’s meant for an end to end level building type of thing which the stuff I am doing is very complex physics wise so this just didn’t cut it for me. It would be great on some other projects though.
LIME, I love LIME. However LIME doesn’t perform all too well on hardware for some reason. There is a whole section under 3rd party tools for lime you can go read about it. It’s easy to use, and it’s a drag and drop type of thing using a program called “tiled”.
I ended up building my own, as it taught me a lot about lua and the Corona SDK. Since I was new to begin with, this was a good project for me (New to coding completely since June 2011).
Basically, for positioning items on screen you can modify your code to use print statements, and then write that to a file (called whatever.lua) and then use that in your code. That was pretty awesome when I got done with it. It’s bare bones, I point somewhere and it creates a rect, or a circle and I can drag the size to what I want and place. Then I hit a button and it saves the data and spits it out.
So what do you do? You can try out various level editors, however I find there is a lot of time spent just learning to use them. I ended up spending that time to learn the API and do things in corona natively. Then when I use a tool, I know what the tool is doing in the “background” and it makes me understand things better.
At least I think it does your mileage will vary.
ng
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Very cool. So you level editor is completely built using Corona for Corona :). Do you store your data in JSON, XML or a custom table structure? [import]uid: 78891 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101292[/import]
No idea when the Ansca Level Editor will be out. From the videos I’ve seen it can’t be too far away
I’m going to go with LevelHelper with SpriteHelper for my next app. It looks very good. I won it in a contest, but purchased Lime and SVG Level Builder before that. [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101422[/import]
I use xml currently. I just broke it this evening though and lost my back up after I opened it up and overwrote it with some code from another game, and then saved it and shut down and didn’t do time machine before.
That is gonna hurt! OUCH!
Grrr.
For the Corona level editor, it can’t be far away. I heard some silliness about “winter 2012” but I don’t know where that information came from. My guess would be summer or maybe late spring, just looking at how polished the video was already :).
I could be wrong though, and magic monkeys from the arctic tundra wearing pink high heels and singing country songs could appear from a multi colored portal in the rgb color space riding a magic carpet - could appear.
Anything is possible. [import]uid: 61600 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101429[/import]
I saw this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVz1p2BWB8A and searched on Google for the thing. I remember I saw it on Carlos’s corner ( http://www.anscamobile.com/carlos/ ) but the page was down a week ago. Sorry for not providing the details [import]uid: 44110 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101990[/import]
Thank you [import]uid: 7197 topic_id: 24901 reply_id: 101293[/import]