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Ardis wrote:

Oh. This looks nice. I will certainly take a look when I'm starting on my next project.

Great!

The "Game Boy Tile Data Generator" once linked to in the Sheep It Up! post-mortem is now offline, and not everyone might want to use superfamiconv or grit, so here's a demo of the Image to Tiles tool.

Take your screen design:



Pick the input and output files:



And click OK!



Or you can pick a format that uses the X+Y flip attributes:



Here that ends up saving four tiles:



The colors were also extracted into a .pal file (using an RGB macro meant for the pret disassemblies), which doesn't really matter for a single-palette DMG game, but can be convenient for CGB.

; palette 0
    RGB 28, 31, 26
    RGB 17, 24, 14
    RGB 06, 13, 10
    RGB 01, 03, 04

Zalo wrote:

This looks really interesting

Quick question, why do I need administrator privileges to run it? wouldn't it be easier to just have an exe we can run?  (like gbtd or gbmv)

You can always just run tilemapstudio.exe. You only need admin privileges to run install.bat, since it copies the .exe to your AppData, creates a Desktop shortcut, and associates .tilemap files with it.

Ok, that worked
Thanks!

this tool is really AMAZING! thanks a lot, Rangi !

angel333119 wrote:

I am trying to use your tool to translate the Rock n Roll Racing game from Super Nintendo. I need to edit the game tilemaps...

I opened the tilemap and tileset in SGB border and this was the result:

https://i.imgur.com/R9AjGyB.png

Almost perfect...

I tried opening in other formats, but it doesn't work correctly like the SGB border...

I was wondering if you can modify your tool to work with the game format... Can I send you the files for you to check out?

Please do! It doesn't support any of the SNES tilemap formats yet, unless they happen to coincide exactly with the GB ones, but I'll try and add that.

If anyone else has examples of SNES tilemap+tileset files, and ideally a screenshot of how it should look, that would help me implement it.

angel333119 wrote:

Rangi, I cannot find a Private Menssage place, so here is the link to one of the tilemaps.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hty7q … lQTe1y502X

Your tool will be a great help to me... Thank you very much

Thanks! The next release will support that format:



Note: the Image to Tiles feature assumes 4 bits per pixel (Mode 2), not 2 bits (Mode 0). If someone really wants it, I'll add separate Mode 0 and Mode 2 formats that only differ in that respect, but since it only matters for the Image to Tiles feature (for which superfamiconv is a more powerful tool for SNES anyway), I doubt it's a big deal.

Last edited by Rangi (2019-11-08 23:51:27)

bbbbbr wrote:

Love it! Great tool and already has a lot of features. Looking forward to using it more.

A couple things I noticed:

* For the import image dialog: While it becomes obvious through use, it might be more clear if "Image:" read "Source Image" or "Input Image", and "Tileset:" read "Output Tileset:".

* Have you considered an export Map to PNG in addition to the Import feature? (Or maybe I missed it in the UI?) It would make it easier to move back and forth between between the tile editor and graphics editor.

* Also minor glitch in clone rectangle tool (maybe not considered a bug?): If the destination area overlaps the bottom of the source area, it will clone from already copied destination tiles instead of the pre-copy source tiles.

Thanks for the feedback!

I can relabel those, yeah. Edit:



Print (Ctrl+P) goes to a PNG, not a printer.

There's no pre-copy buffer, so yeah, that happens. I'm okay with it, at least for now.

Also, since "clone rectangle tool" isn't out yet, I'm still concerned if it has bugs or not. Has it crashed for you at all, or corrupted files?

Last edited by Rangi (2019-11-14 23:29:02)

Thanks for the updates!

Yes, compiling from source on Linux (the instructions for that worked perfect)

The clone appears to be working (for the first overlapping copy, which seems reasonable). Have not seen any crashes or corruption with the clone tool using plain tiles. The right/left mouse button usage for it feels intuitive and efficient.

Version 3.0.0 is out! It now has multi-tile selection; just left-drag in the tileset or right-drag in the tilemap. If the tilemap format supports X+Y flip, those buttons will also make the entire selection flip when you place it.



This version was built with Visual Studio 2019, and it comes with some optimizations and bugfixes. It also supports SNES-format tilemaps.

Tilemap Studio has its first release of 2020: 3.2.0. It's a pretty significant update from 3.1.0. You can download it and read the whole changelog at that link on GitHub.

The major changes have been in the Image to Tiles feature. The dialog has been reorganized; it lets you specify a color #0 to use for every palette (useful for transparent backgrounds); and if it can't build the tiles, the dialog reappears without losing your settings, so you can quickly edit the input image or fix the settings and try again.



Two other convenience features: Tilemap→Print can export to an image or copy to the clipboard; and Options→Auto-Load Tileset will load a tileset image with the same name as a tilemap.

There have also been some bugfixes, such as placing flipped multiselected tiles past the edges of the tilemap, and outputting JASC palette files with DOS line endings.

toxa wrote:

wow! needed that feature! thank you!

Please let me know if there are any other missing features!

Matt wrote:

Windows REALLY doesn't trust this app, but I after I finally got rid of all the security-related prompts I was able to check it out and it as absolutely amazing!!!

Yeah, some versions of Windows Defender detect Tilemap Studio 3.2.0 as "Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.C!ml". It's a false positive due to machine learning heuristics (hence the "!ml"). You can check the VirusTotal results for tilemapstudio.exe.

If anyone's still concerned, you can always build it locally from the source code.