TileCat is a computer based tile mapper. My inspiration for this project was a utility for Daemons but I've made it its own project.

At the moment I have a usable release which supports creating tilemaps for visual, collision, and transitional data (or whatever you specify for each)

It produces a file with a simple format ([MapWidth],[MapHeight],[data])
(Each tile is a single byte)

Eventually I want it to export the data into an AppVar or a String for use in calculator games. I even want it to send it directly to the calculator from the program.

Here's a screenshot:



You can download here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573921/Tile%20Map%20Editor.zip

Edit: Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilecat/

Note the README is pretty bad but I suggest reading it nonetheless.

Future updates:

-Non-Visual modes will have background visual data updated in real time
-Better README
-Ctrl+N will start a new window in Collision or Transitional modes (right now you have to run the program and set it to those modes, in the next release it will start in visual mode by default)

NOTE:
Every Collision and Transitional map MUST have an accompanying  visual map of the same name or the program might crash.

Does it use any Windows-Only Library? I'd like to know so I can try and make a Linux Build.

Either way, this is a nice project!

Some improvements that should be done:

• It should draw a thin huge rectangle that isn't black around the entire map, so you can see the boundaries. EDIT: Maybe just stop the user from panning outside of the boundaries.
• The tile selection could me more intuitive if we figured out a way to click on the tiles (I know how to do that, but I would have to combine everything into 1 window)
• A major performance increase for huge maps would be to not draw the stuff that you can't see

I will do this later, and I will try to get it working on Linux. I have never had this issue before for building my other games/SFML programs for Linux.

Quote from: HOMER-16 on June 24, 2011, 08:23:09 am

SFML is available for Linux, in fact, the first few builds were Linux builds.

I tried to get my friend who has Linux to compile it for Linux but he was getting errors. It might have been his setup though, I don't use any Windows-only stuff.

"||=== Tile Map Editor, Release ===|
/home/david/Documents/Calculators/Random Calculator Stuff/Tile Map Editor/main.cpp|2|fatal error: SFML/Graphics.hpp: No such file or directory|
||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|"

It seems like I have to install SFML on Linux.

Yes. Install libsfml-dev (it also depends on about 5 other packages) if your using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based distro, and then it should automatically work with your IDE. I use Code::Blocks and it works perfectly with it without configuring anything.

"How big do you want"

How large you want the tile map to be. Two values X then Y.

Is it crashing after you input the values to use? Try loading the map.

Well this is looking good, but it seems like we can't replace the already drawn tiles, that's important.

You should be able to. Num keys change the tile you are using. There should be another window that shows you your tiles. For all the controls there's a readme included.


Edit:

It should draw a thin huge rectangle that isn't black around the entire map, so you can see the boundaries.

I can add that easily. In fact.. there, it's already done. 

New Update: I gave this project a name. I felt that, since now I'm driven to improve this project until it becomes one of the best, it should have an actual title.

Edit: A screenshot of the project