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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Teknogames on March 20, 2011, 11:47:12 pm

Title: PIXOTHELLO - Mockup/Tileset Creation Tool
Post by: Teknogames on March 20, 2011, 11:47:12 pm
(http://teknopants.com/pixothello/pixothellotitle.gif)

Make A Mockup.
Organize Your Tilemap.
Use In Game.

I created Pixothello because I dreaded making tilesets for my games. Now I dig it. I created most of the graphics for the game 0Space (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=17385.0) with this program. You can create seamless tiles quickly and easily, see if your tileset works before you export it, and organize it accordingly.  Though this started as a project tuned to my own workflow, I was tired of sitting on the program, so I made a few changes to make it more accessible.

(http://teknopants.com/pixothello/pixothello.png)

Here is the Download Page,
which also sports some videos (http://teknopants.com/pixothello/)

While Pixothello is nice, it does have a few shortcomings:
  • Occasionally slow FPS (Made in Game Maker)
  • Can only export .BMP's (Made in Game Maker)
  • Cannot rotate tiles (Did not foresee when I programmed it, and now it's hard to add)
  • Fill tool breaks on erased pixels (No idea)
  • Cannot undo tilemap changes(yet)

Title: Re: PIXOTHELLO - Mockup/Tileset Creation Tool
Post by: Mathias on March 21, 2011, 05:19:07 am
Interesting tool. Thank you for sharing!!

If you try to change the Canvas Size and leave one of the spaces blank and hit 'Enter', it crashes and you lose everything:
ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object Window:

to_real: blank string.

Just make it toss up a nag message in the event of a blank field?

Also freeze crashes if you give it really huge numbers. Implement a max cap?


Go to Edit > BG Color and simply press cancel, it selects red for your BG, even though you did nothing.


The blinky stamp marque selection box isn't visible enough on darker backgrounds. I suggest less transparency and a 32fps blink. Also make the box alternate between white and black when it blinks or change the selection box from a solid color to a dotted black/white line, like most image editing apps.


A large canvas, especially with large tiles becomes really clumsy because the testmap in the top-right covers everything.
Title: Re: PIXOTHELLO - Mockup/Tileset Creation Tool
Post by: alex pang on May 15, 2011, 02:24:05 pm
I love it thanks!!

I dont have any problems ....
Title: Re: PIXOTHELLO - Mockup/Tileset Creation Tool
Post by: meodai on May 15, 2011, 03:34:57 pm
look very nice! But why are all those nice little programs for windows only :( I hate to start up my VM