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Well, I apologize for myself and probably for Bjørn too that we never seem to have time to work on Tiled. Development still goes forward, but at a slower pace.

That said, I'm curious to know what features the Slick community would like to see in Tiled, hopefully to goad one of us to actually work on these features...

-Adam

First off excellent work on the editor, you have done excellent work so far and don't need to apologize for it.

WishList
-I would like to be able to select a group of tiles and then when I use the "Fill Tool" have it fill using random tiles from the selection. For instance I have 8 different seamless grass tiles and I would like to be ably to randomly place them to gave a more varied look.

-Be able to flip and rotate tiles

-I would like to be able to select multiple tiles in the "Edit Tileset" window and add/set properties to all selected tiles. Currently it only changes the first tile in the selection.

I apologies in advance if some of these features already exist and I simple don't know how to use them.

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Definitely want to echo Chronocide on all his points. Tiled is great and very useful. It'd also be really useful to have all the features he suggested. I'd especially like to see the ability to edit properties en masse as I find that I frequently end up having to set, say, "blocked = 1" for a large number of tiles.

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i must quote manu and chrono

Something that would facilitate this has been proposed, the idea of tile "libraries" which are a group of tiles selected from a set. There is the custom brush, which is a spray brush and can "spray" tiles at random, but this only handles one tile at a time. That's really a cool idea you have.



This was added at one point, and then removed. The reasoning behind removing it was that if the tileset came from a single image, Tiled would either have to save new images for some or all of the tiles, or it would have to reconstruct the tileset image. Both these solutions we felt strayed too far into the realm of a graphics application, which Tiled expressly tries not to be. (as opposed to TileStudio)



I've also wished for this one. That's also not a difficult feature to implement.

All in all, I think all three ideas are cool. I can't say really yet which will actually make it in. But keep ideas coming- it helps stir some inspiration and maybe some drive.

-Adam

Just thought of a killer feature (imo); how about you expose an API so that game developers can embed Tiled in their games and create a map maker w/ a custom interface?

Obviously developers are comfortable creating maps in Tiled but users might not be, plus it's an additional download which is a pretty big barrier. That said, once you've got things going smoothly w/ Tiled you start to think about letting users generate new levels, and of course it would be great to do this all in-game.

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When resizing the map, say I want to make my map taller; I need to move everything in the map down to the bottom. (it sets the y attribute in the xml.)
This however, means I cannot draw in the new space.

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IMHO too killer feature.. and a cool feature

Here's my list. :3

• Copy/paste of entities.
• An 'entity swatch' where pre-defined entities can be placed for easy access (for instance, when placing lights in a map, it's rather frustrating to place 50 lights, then edit 50 objects, set properties, etc.)
• An option to turn entity snapping on and off. I notice they're placed via snapping, but they don't snap when moved... this is a bit inconsistent and annoying. Obviously there are times when you'd want one or the other, but a shortcut or menu option would be fantastic
• An option to 'grey' layers. perhaps as a visual option that can be turned on/off. Basically, something that more visually shows which layer is active. (the reason is that when you have 4+ layers going, it's hard to tell if something is on the layer you're painting or not, until you actually paint there.
• A 'run' button or shortcut, that can call a command with the map as an argument. (ie, "mygame --test -m <filename>")

Grouped Entities:
An expansion to the entity swatch where I can place preset-multiple objects in one go (such as a group of coins aligned nicely)

Shapes:
An object can have a shape. This saves adding a shape property to my objects. It will also enable the shape to be placed with more accuracy in the tiled editor.

If I think of anymore I will let know.

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When I have a single tile selected on the main canvas I would like to have that tiles properties displayed and editable. On the side bellow the layers widget would be my preference for location.
As it is right now; if I have a tile I want to change the property of I have to go through the tile manager and dig for it. This is especially tedious with tile sets that have hundreds of tiles.

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Hiya,

So I started to make my first map today. Some docs would be nice. I might have to write some up after I figure it all out. Here are a few suggestions from my first map.

1) Auto scroll would be very nice when you try to make something like a border. For example, my map was 40 tiles wide, 36 pixels each and I wanted to put a border around it using the paint tool but it wouldn't auto scroll to the right. I had to grab the tool bar and then go back up.

2) For me the whole tileset thing was quite confusing. When you set default properties it gives the appearance of only setting one property per set. This is not the case if you edit it afterward, then you can assign variables and their values to each. Very flexible but also confusing. You might want to consider setting up the UI so it shows each tile on the tile sheet can be modified and have some standard but changeable, "Walkable" tile variables.

3) The tile editor I was going to use before I became convinced to use Slick was http://www.dannylum.com/D2DProject/. I like two things about it.

a) The code is fun to see. But this might not apply to how this is set up.

b) Show walkable path is very useful for making sure you set up everything correctly.

4) This is a would be nice thing and it might already be there and I'm not sure if it is best entered in the map but seems so... but what about animated terrain? Water, waving grass etc... wasn't sure how that would handled. Again this is beyond the scope of any of my games currently.

Again great stuff.

Day 3 of playing with the editor.

5) Better support for dynamic object layer so you don't have to render the layers separately. Allow the level editors to see how the whole map is going to play without coding.

So my top two right now are the view the available path and dynamic layer. One way might include standardizing two variables blocked and visible or allow the coder to set his spellings of these in the editor.

6) Random tiles would be nice but not high.

I'm not even sure this is possible but can you associate the tmx file with the Tiled editor? In other words, in windows just double click on the tmx file to open the map. This would be of course a very, very low priority.

But hey you asked.

Are you guys working on this any more?


Two would be nice features (low priority)

--When you select a layer, the tile manager goes to the defaulted tile set or at least the first tile set you choose.
--Add a button on the tile pallete to go directly to the edit feature of the tileset in the tile manager.

This is sorta redundant to a previous request. I would put this at the highest level request.

--in the tile manager | edit feature if duplicate tile is implemented so that the art work is seperate from the xml variables this would be very helpful. In other words you reuse the art but you can set whatever variables you want for the same art.

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