Lately, i have been thinking of building a Map Editor for creating new custom Mapgen Files.
I have in fact already tried this, although i abandoned the project because the styling of the UI got too difficult and tedious and that overall, the code got pretty messy.
I have found some other people that tried the same thing, although it seems that most of these Projects have been abandoned.
Can’t add more than two links right now
Is there some better, more modern, built in way of creating Maps and is there even a demand for a Graphical Map Editor?
If there is, i want to take another crack at creating one.
To better undestand, what kind of things a Map Editor needs to be able to do, i want to ask for some suggestions for features.
During the developement of the last Project, i’ve created a initial Mockup for the editor.
Just to note, that i have changed the design a bit, but i was just too lazy to change the design of the internal editor
Here are some of the requirements that i have defined myself:
- Support Multiple Tabs being open at once
- Support Importing of Mapgen Tiles
- Support Importing of Mapgen Tiles bigger than 24x24
- Support Exporting of Mapgen Tiles
- Support custom Tilesets
- Easy search for finding new Tiles
- Different Layers for Terrain, Furniture, etc
- A List of all the tiles that have been used in the current Map
What are some of the features that you would like an editor like this to have?