I will need to try it out! I was also wondering if it was possible to toggle a setting to output tilemap data by columns or by rows. I ask this because it seems like most tilemap routines that I have seen use data stored by rows (so in a 13x13 tilemap, the first thirteen bytes make the top row of tiles). This is probably because it makes more sense to us visually when looking at tilemap data since we write from left to right, top to bottom. However, I find that a decent speed gain can be had (thousands or even tens of thousands of cycles) if the data is stored so that the first 13 bytes corresponds to the leftmost column. The reason is that when we draw a sprite, we draw from the top to the bottom, so by the end of the sprite drawing routine, we already have a pointer to where the next sprite gets drawn-- there is no need to compute the next position cutting out potentially a hundred or more cycles for every tile drawn (though if done properly, it only saves 21 to 42 clock cycles per tile, but that adds up to 2000 to 4000 t-states).

Anyways, I use this to get better speed out of my tilemap routines and so it is the method used in BatLib, Grammer, and Pokémon Amber and I might release a tilemap engine based on that once I get the tilemap code as optimised as possible (I will need help for that). If this could be done, that would be great, but it is still doable with some mental warping. Thanks Deep Thought!

Cool to hear

Now I just wish it ran faster because when I open clrhome.org, most of the time it takes 1 minute to load.

Probably the server. Though the uptime's been a bit better recently—it's around 97% now.

The main site loaded in 0.8 seconds for me, and Pixelscape is just under one second.

Yeah, i noticed your server derping around a lot

Anyways, good to hear of updates! The pt-mask can be very useful

Maybe the tools could be hosted on Sorunome's server if they don't use too many resources?

funny enough, i would be ok with that

Nice nice nice! Just a little request : could you add variable size and export to 8*8 chunks?

Really awesome, fun to use...


Did this tonight, all in the editor 

Yep, the backend for the entire site is PHP.

I really want to be able to have multiple tilemaps going at the same time so I don't have to export/import appvars for every tilemap I make all the time.