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gamerman

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Tileset maker thing. updated.
« on: July 20, 2008, 07:34:52 pm »

Edit: updated

Well, I was bored and thought about making a tile set. A while later, I still don't have a tileset, but now I have this.

I put a bit of effort into this, but I want to know what you think before I spend days on it, so let me know what you think of it.

I made it in Game Maker as it's the only thing I know the language of, don't let that put you off if you know what it is. I really should learn C++ or something as I don't use any of the drag and drop stuff.

The controls are:
Left mouse button to draw with the main colour
Right mouse button to draw with the second colour

Space to change the main colour
control + space to change the second colour

enter to resize it, note that it clears the screen when you resize it.
control + enter to clear everything

mouse wheel to zoom

1 and 2 to switch which window your controlling.

window 1 is the current tile window, and is the window you draw on.
control + left click to move the window

window 2 is the tile set view
just left click to move it

the arrow keys move the selected tile around.

S saves the current image
O loads an image, note that you need to manually change the sizes.


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window dragging is better

3 selects the colour bar window

shift + arrow keys duplicate the tile in the corresponding direction.

shift copies the colour at the mouse.

on the colour bar window, left click to select a colour
use the mouse wheel to change the brightness
the left two squares are the main and second colours.
control + left click to move the window

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If you like it I'll work on it more.
« Last Edit: July 21, 2008, 12:32:26 pm by gamerman »
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Re: Tileset maker thing
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 04:57:11 am »

Awesome!  Been thinking of how to best use Adobe to be able to make a proper tileset and now I don't have to :D
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Lord Nightmare

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Re: Tileset maker thing
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2008, 09:29:26 am »

I just use GIMP and set the grid on to 8x16 or whatever the size of tiles/glyphs I want, then draw them right onto the grid.

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Re: Tileset maker thing
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2008, 10:19:21 am »

Erh, so is it an image editor? I'm used to Adobe Photoshop.
But I must've got it wrong...
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Re: Tileset maker thing
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2008, 10:50:42 am »

Erh, so is it an image editor? I'm used to Adobe Photoshop.
But I must've got it wrong...

It's not an editor, it's for making tilesets.
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