Are there plans to use the Tiled editor in the future?
Posted: 24 Dec 2014, 23:39
This is something I've been curious about for a while. I thought I read/heard somewhere that VT was planning to stop using the current VT map editor and to use the Tiled map editor instead. Is this true? Is this planned for the future? Was this discussed but decided not to follow through with converting? I can certainly understand why if so. The Tiled editor seems much more mature and complete than the VT editor, which is an improved version of the Allacrost editor. If Tiled existed when Allacrost got started, we probably would have used that editor (and contributed to it) instead of making our own. A few months ago I considered moving Allacrost to Tiled, but decided against it because it would require a lot of work and we'd have to add a major feature to the editor to support Allacrost maps.
I have studied the heck out of the latest VT editor and brought its features and design back into Allacrost. In the process, I ended up pretty much rewriting the Allacrost map editor completely from scratch, as both the Allacrost editor code and VT editor code had poor software architecture and was somewhat of a mess. I'm still working on it and probably will be for at least another month or two, but the code is much, much easier to understand and maintain now and easier to use as well. If VT isn't going to use Tiled, maybe it would be worth while to re-take the editor code from Allacrost? You'll need to make a couple changes (removing the map context feature and changing the read/write map file functions), but I don't think it will be too much work to do. If you're interested in the new Allacrost editor code, let me know and I would be happy to help VT adopt it in the future. I don't think it would be wise to start using our code until February at the earlierst though.
I have studied the heck out of the latest VT editor and brought its features and design back into Allacrost. In the process, I ended up pretty much rewriting the Allacrost map editor completely from scratch, as both the Allacrost editor code and VT editor code had poor software architecture and was somewhat of a mess. I'm still working on it and probably will be for at least another month or two, but the code is much, much easier to understand and maintain now and easier to use as well. If VT isn't going to use Tiled, maybe it would be worth while to re-take the editor code from Allacrost? You'll need to make a couple changes (removing the map context feature and changing the read/write map file functions), but I don't think it will be too much work to do. If you're interested in the new Allacrost editor code, let me know and I would be happy to help VT adopt it in the future. I don't think it would be wise to start using our code until February at the earlierst though.