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Title: Map Editors - Suggestions
Post by: BooBoo on January 16, 2009, 09:53:32 AM

Hi after my little experiment of Reading and displaying Chaos Engine Map data
Id like to make a test scrolling platform game and require a map editor can anyone sugest one that they use or know to be suitable.

Title: Re: Map Editors - Suggestions
Post by: BooBoo on January 20, 2009, 06:23:54 PM

Thanks - But that version of TAME seems a bit naff ive seen this version but its only demo
http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_computing/magscans/ac054_1992_11/038.jpg&c=82956

What about something for windows - Mappy Editor isn`t bad but i dont think it saves in a plain Hex string.

Title: Re: Map Editors - Suggestions
Post by: SamuraiCrow on January 20, 2009, 11:41:47 PM

Be careful using Windows map editors.  The Intel/AMD processors use a little-endian byte ordering and Amos on the 680x0 uses a big-endian byte ordering.  That means any binary value larger than 8 bits will have the bytes in reverse order.  Since most tilemap editors allow maps bigger than 256x256 tiles that means the header indicating the dimensions of the files will need to be modified to work on Amos.

Title: Re: Map Editors - Suggestions
Post by: BooBoo on January 21, 2009, 07:41:59 AM

Im after a map editir that exports similar data to Export as TxT on mappy just the string I dont want the Map to save any Tile structure data only simple Map/collision data

01 00 01 00 01 02 01 02 01 00 01
01 =Tile One
00 =Walkable
02 =Deadley

Title: Re: Map Editors - Suggestions
Post by: SamuraiCrow on January 21, 2009, 11:29:56 PM

Why do you want to have a text-based format when you could just use a data bank format?

Title: Re: Map Editors - Suggestions
Post by: BooBoo on January 22, 2009, 02:58:38 PM

I dont - AnyWay Export as Mar-map array on Mappy seems good :)

But im might still have problems like you say with the byte ordering.