Pixel Perfect Tile Editor
 

[VERSION]1.3.0[/VERSION]
Version

• - 1.3

Features

• - Relatively easy setup with simple configuration
• - Works with graal file browser rights system
• - Scrolls automatically when selecting large portions of the gui
• - Open, save, and delete tile clipboard files
• - Undo & redo (Note: history is cleared when the editor closes)
• - [Toggle] Fade inactive tilelayers
• - [Toggle] Level grid to separate tiles
• - [Toggle] Extra cursor info
• - [Toggle] External window
• - Create new levels
• - Flood fill
• - Automatically checks if there is an update available when the script is initialized
• - More

Installation

1. Create a new weapon script named -Development/TileEditor or
   whatever whatever is pleasing to you
2. Copy the entire text of the pastebin document into the script
3. Modify the configuration portion of the script to suit your
   server best
4. Give (npcserver) the required rights
   By default, this includes:
   rw access to TileEditor/Clipboard/ and subfolders,
   rw access to TileEditor/Data/ and subfolders,
   rw access to a levels folder (to create new levels),
   rw access to levels/images/tileeditor_icon_1-1.png ,
   rw access to levels/images/tileeditor_bucket_1-1.png ,
   rw access to levels/images/tileeditor_pencil_1-1.png
   
   Quote:

   rw TileEditor/Clipboard/* rw TileEditor/Clipboard/*/* rw TileEditor/Clipboard/*/*/* rw TileEditor/Data/* rw TileEditor/Data/*/* rw TileEditor/Data/*/*/* rw levels/levels/* rw levels/images/tileeditor_icon_1-1.png rw levels/images/tileeditor_bucket_1-1.png rw levels/images/tileeditor_pencil_1-1.png

5. Give level designers necessary rights
   r and/or w access to TileEditor/Clipboard/ and/or
   subfolders, rw access to level files to use this program on
   
   Quote:

   rw TileEditor/Clipboard/* rw TileEditor/Clipboard/*/* rw TileEditor/Clipboard/*/*/* rw levels/levels/*

6. Add the weapon script to the level designers

Directions

• Type /te into the chat bar to open the program
• Left click to select tiles, right click to paste the selection

Script Interface
- The following clientside public functions are available:

• open() - triggers the request to open the editor
• close() - triggers the program to close
• isOpen() - returns true if the program is open

What's new in 1.3?

• Improved the grid feature. It now uses different colors to represent modulo offsets of 64, 32, 16, and 8
• Fixed the use of the default graal rights system on gmaps. It now will not allow any tiles to be placed unless every part of the rectangle is within a level you have WRITE rights to. (It previously required write rights to the .gmap itself)
• Added a menu item to check for an update within the program at Options->Check for update
• Other small bug fixes, optimizations, and meaningless changes

Looks nice, good work. Thanks for sharing.

Good job!

It looks nice. Good job!

Looks... very interesting!

Brilliant contribution + rep.

Thanks for the positive feedback. I hope the editor works well for everyone's purposes. Let me know if you have any problems.

I made a few updates:

• Automatically checks if there is an update available when the script is initialized
• [Toggle] Extra cursor info
• Optimizations and bug fixes to the flood fill algorithm

The original post has been updated with the new version.

Fantastic, really good work.

Was wondering when I'd see this...

It's fantastic :)

It's very frustrating that I cannot edit the original post. I plan on doing updates every now and then to this, and I really would like to be able to update my post.

I have come out with a new release: 1.3

http://pastebin.graalcenter.org/read/6101023324639

What's new in this version?

• Improved the grid feature. It now uses different colors to represent modulo offsets of 64, 32, 16, and 8
• Fixed the use of the default graal rights system on gmaps. It now will not allow any tiles to be placed unless every part of the rectangle is within a level you have WRITE rights to. (It previously required write rights to the .gmap itself)
• Added a menu item to check for an update within the program at Options->Check for update
• Other small bug fixes, optimizations, and meaningless changes

If a moderator could update the original post or allow me access to edit it again, I would be very grateful. The update checking feature of the program will not work if the original post cannot be updated.

Important: If you update the original post, please change the text between [VERSION] and [/VERSION] to 1.3.0 so that the program's update checking works.

Thank you!

You can't edit posts after 24 hours, which is really annoying in the Code Gallery. If you ask a moderator, they'll generally do it for you.

Nice work pix, I was wondering what you'd been up to.

and it only took 2000 lines of boilerplate code to get a thread that lacks any criticism whatsoever

lol k

New Version 1.4
http://pastebin.graalcenter.org/read/92657616352

Here's what's new:

• File -> Update Level ( immediately saves tile changes to the level file you are currently in )
• Layer -> Add ( Adds a tilelayer )
• Layer -> Remove ( Removes a tilelayer. Note that the default client behavior of removing a tilelayer can be very buggy. It's not recommended to remove tilelayers. )
• Fixed a few problems with rights on gmaps.
• Other minor fixes and changes as usual

There are changes which must be made to (npcserver) rights. This is the new list of default (npcserver) rights:
rw to all levels is required for the these features:

• Create new levels
• Force immediate level save
• Add and remove tilelayers

however, rw to all levels will also be required for future features.

Here's the current goal for version 1.5:

• View/Edit signs
• View/Edit level links
• View/Edit npcs
• Rename from "Tile Editor" to "Level Editor"

Please report any problems you find. :)

Nice work! :)

I would much prefer the option to be able to use your own rights to save levels rather than open up NPC-Server to everything...especially on a server like Testbed :|

I would prefer that as well, but currently it's not possible. You can certainly still use the editor, but special features won't work without the NPC-Server having rights. I'm aware that it is a security risk, but the servers that aren't worried about that are able to enjoy these features.

savelevel(str) needs to be fixed by Stefan before you will be able to save levels immediately without NPC-Server having rights.

Other special features will probably require NPC-Server rights for a long time. Stefan would have to provide additional functionality. He's already busy as it is, so it won't be soon.

He means adding something to the script to check serverside if you actually have the rights to the current level. At least that's what I'm assuming :)

It already does that :). He was saying that if he gave the Testbed NPC-Server rw rights to all levels, that it could be abused by malicious scripters. Possibly destroying others' work.

I have used a level editor that did not require the NPC server to be given rights.

The editing of tiles does not require NPC-Server rights.

This thing is really nice. However, I'd like to request a feature.


This editor does work on terrain maps as well, but the image of the tiles you currently have selected in the clipboard shows up on the ground quite a bit below where the cursor is, making it offset by a lot and confusing to work with. Would it be possible to include an option to toggle off the clipboard display, or change it so that it also hovers on the screen layer where the mouse is?

Here's a screenshot of what I mean. The cursor position is in red, the clipboard image is in blue.

I cannot get this to work on a terrain gmap, I have all the correct rights set however when i try to place a tile nothing happens

I have it working partially on terrain maps, but the icons and tiles stored in the clipboard don't quite play nice when z-height gets involved. I can lay down tiles and save them on terrain maps, but it's awkward.

Also, on another subject... In future versions, could you try to work in something for setting links in levels too? Even if it's a separate tool, that would be fantastic.


And I just wanted to say again, this is excellent work.

Where are the images for this?

They're generated by the script. See the long base64 strings near the top of the script.

So i am having trouble with this editor saving.
Problem: When i go to file update level it says that the npcserver does not have read rights to levels/0. The problem seems to be that it can not find the correct filepath. However i modified the script to have the correct filepath and also gave the npcserver rights to that exact file and still i have the same error message. The level does save if i let it sit and after a few seconds it will save on its on.

Let me explain a few things. My levels files are in a folder in the levels folder. ex: levels/mainOW/*
ex: levels/temp/* etc. I gave myself and my npcserver the needed rights, also set savelevels=true in server options.

please message me on aim jaycassini or msg me on atrius. i had loged on today to see if you were there but you were not on. i would like to see the issue u described.

The problem still persists, if your reading this and own a server, i suggest you take a look into the problem yourself it seems like i am not alone.

Testing the problem:
1. Open /te and put down a tile.
2. Goto File->Update Level.
3. Update the level on your player account by saying "update level"
4. Does the tile stay? Did you get a message after you went to File->Update Level?

If you are having the same problem it could be because of a recent update by Stefan, earlier this week. Please post and let me know.

After further analysis it seems the loadfolder() function is not working properly anymore. I have made a very simple work around for those whos pixel editors are malfunctioning.

1. Add this line to configurations.
Add the folders that contain your levels in the array.
2. Replace the function

Thats it! Hopefully that solves some headaches.:D

I installed this script on Maloria two days ago and it was working flawlessly back then. I also just tried loadfolder() and it works like intended. If it doesn't work, it's because you haven't given (npcserver) read rights to said folder.

ziro i had the same problem to after the update from stefan. npcserver had the rights and so did his.. this glich was just for the update level function in the editor.

We had serious issues with this editor and downloading the level and using gonstruct as well. Using this editor, then going to gonstruct, messed up tile layers somehow, and using gonstruct after this editor left invisible blocking tiles that had to be cleared to continue using gonstruct.

Just FYI. Don't know why we got so unlucky.

I personally have found it is best to not even use this editor online if you have added layers via gonstruct.

Unfortunately, I can't contribute more information in my testing, but I do not see layers >0 (listed as 1 in this editor) if I open the editor online, but otherwise they are all there and function properly (even on a gmap) if I do not open the editor.

It's not possible to read layers on gmaps by script, which is why I'd only recommend this editor for levels that are not part of a gmap.

When you do 'update level' to save changes it erases the changes. I remember that there used to be a time when this didn't happen and then Stefan or someone changed something so that you had to wait 2-3 minutes in between levels. Now I'm having no such luck. Has this time been increased even further? Can something be done about it?

Could have a script that reads all the live tile data and saves it to file.

A number of people keep running into the problem of levels saving weirdly. I think I know what the cause is.

In serveroptions, if you do 'autosavelevels = true', the server will be saving levels several minutes after they have been updated last. If you are not frequently using the Update Level command as you work, sometimes the level files will get saved automatically by the server, but not updated. If you leave the map or get disconnected, the tiles will look like they have been erased, but sometimes you can recover them by actually chatting 'update level' in the client.

I'm not sure that I've seen a case where using the Update Level command in the editor will accidentally erase tile work, but I'll keep my eyes peeled for that as well. But again, I suspect that server option can interfere with the tile editor.

We fixed this on delteria, it was a issue where you had to wait a few minutes to save, now there is a actual save button that saves the levels on demand. However Alpho is working on a pretty new level editor concept that uses updating the textfile opposed to using savelevels. Hopefully he will be done with it soon.

Are you willing to post the code?