bjorn {l Wrote}:Disclaimer: I'm the author of Tiled.
This thread got my attention since Sauer2 was asking on the #tiled IRC channel about doing such an editor and why I had decided to rewrite Tiled in Qt vs. Java (a question to which the answer is at http://www.mapeditor.org/2009/09/qt-ver ... eased.html, btw).
Extending the functionality of the Object Layer in Tiled has been planned for a long time already. Personally I don't think there is any reason to do another editor from scratch just to have stuff like object templates, object rotation and scaling or even "IDE"-like project support. They are all features you could add to Tiled, and in that case the result would be an editor that combines the best of both worlds.
So far each version of Tiled has worked a little bit towards being more than just a tile map editor:
Tiled Qt 0.6.0:
* Added support for placing tiles as objects
* Added an object selection tool, allowing moving/deleting multiple objects
* Added "Move To Layer" submenu to the context menu of objects
Tiled Qt 0.7.0:
* Added copy/paste support for objects
* Made the object context menu available in all object tools
Tiled Qt 0.8.0:
* Added support for polygon and polyline objects
* Added support for defining the color of custom object types
Tiled Qt 0.9.0 (coming soon):
* Added objects dock and per-object visibility toggle (by Tim Baker)
* Added basic image layer support (by Gregory Nickonov and Alexander Kuhrt)
* Added support for ellipse objects (by devnewton and Christoph Schnackenberg)
Why not help continue this trend?
devnewton {l Wrote}:Yes, "tile pointer" should do the job.
Another thing: for my game, the ability to rotate objects and having a rotated view would be very nice, because level are rotatable. Do you think it's easy or hard to implement?
bjorn {l Wrote}:Are you trying to compile against Qt 5 beta (that might explain your zlib issue)? Please try with Qt 4.8.2 (not 4.8.3 since it has another issue which prevents compiling).
bjorn {l Wrote}:Otherwise try asking on the IRC channel for help (but stick around, I read your message today one hour later but you had already left after 15 min. :-)).
bjorn {l Wrote}:Edit: I'm not primarily a Windows user, btw... it's so much easier to install Qt ad Qt Creator on Linux. :/
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