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Hi all,
can anyone recommend a tool (Win XP) to create tilesets?

Currently I'm using TileStudio but that doesn't support layers while creating tiles.

Graphics Gale does support layers but I don't properly get it to work with many tiles (also importing an existing tileset doesn't work or I'm too stupid).

What do you use? Some standard graphics program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Impact or something like this) or Gimp (complicated to do Pixel stuff) or???

I want to easily add tiles to an existing tileset, use layers while editing one tile and save everything as png. I also would love to arrange the order of the tiles in the exported png or in the locally stored tileset...

Does such a tool exist?

Cheers,
Tommy

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I'm afraid I'm a GIMP user.

Kev

Don't be afraid
So do you create your tilesets with Gimp?
If so, how?
Do you have one big image, zoom in a lot and just create your 32x32 pixel large areas and do Gimp magic there?
Or do you create a tile one by one, save them as single png's and merge them later on into one big tileset?

As long as there is some not too jerky way to get there, I'm fine!

I already read a few Gimp tutorials on the web and I'm quite impressed with what can be done easily with Gimp!

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Right Angle Games | Marte Engine
Back to the past | Star Cleaner | SpiderTrap

I tend to work as individual images first. Though I most compose stuff from other images rather work at the pixel level. So, if I want a grass tile I'll be sourcing an image of real grass - blurring, cropping etc, making seamless then adding to a seperate larger sheet.

Though depending on what type of sheet you're trying to create the ImagePacker tool linked on the Slick website migth be useful to you.

Kev