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Programming => Gameboy Advance & Nintendo DS Coding => Topic started by: flash on December 27, 2008, 06:49:13 pm

Title: Tilemap editors
Post by: flash on December 27, 2008, 06:49:13 pm

Does anyone have any idea what is a good tilemap editor that can export for use in DS asm?

I have looked at loads and the best looking appears to be Pixtile, though in the demo there is no way to know what formats can be output (rather silly)

Title: Re: Tilemap editors
Post by: flash on December 27, 2008, 09:48:22 pm

Mappy is about the best I can find

Title: Re: Tilemap editors
Post by: headkaze on December 28, 2008, 01:21:40 am

Just use the "grit" tool included in DevKitPro (located in C:\devkitPro\devkitARM\bin) ;)

In the DevKitPro tile example (C:\devkitPro\examples\nds\Graphics\2D\BackgroundAllInOne) they use Pern Edit (http://pernedit.com). I think when it comes to combining tiles from multiple maps it can get a bit more tricky. But I'm pretty sure grit can do it anyway. So I say we just use grit for now and figure out how to combine multiple tiles/maps and palettes later.

To create a simple map create a png that is made up of 8x8 tiles Eg. level1.png and a level1.grit containing the following

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#-------------------------------------------------------
# graphics in tile format
#-------------------------------------------------------
-gt

#-------------------------------------------------------
# tile reduction
#-------------------------------------------------------
-mR

#-------------------------------------------------------
# map output
#-------------------------------------------------------
-m

#-------------------------------------------------------
# graphics bit depth is 4 (16 color)
#-------------------------------------------------------
-gB4
Grit will create the map data and automatically detect repeated, rotated and mirrored tiles and create the map accordingly.

Here are the full options for grit (http://www.coranac.com/man/grit/html/grit.htm)