MCD Edit by volutar

[Solarius Scorch]

Impressive work, Volutar. Truly impressive. I've started working with your latest version recently and it's a great step forwards. Great job.

I have two questions though:
1) Is it possible to copy .mcds between tilesets, with all the properties? I'm guessing no, judging from the thread. It would be enormously helpful when moving tiles between tilesets.
2) How do you pick a colour when editing? Using the colour pick highlights all instances of that colour, but doesn't make it active colour.

[Hobbes]

Volutar,

Just a little thing: Insert PCK doesn't seem to be working

[volutar]

1) Is it possible to copy .mcds between tilesets, with all the properties? I'm guessing no, judging from the thread. It would be enormously helpful when moving tiles between tilesets.

You can copy MCDs (number of) into clipboard (they are copied as text), and then paste them into another mcdset, if you want, or even in text file. I guess you didn't read the thread properly.

2) How do you pick a colour when editing? Using the colour pick highlights all instances of that colour, but doesn't make it active colour.

Please refer this
In short - either from the palette just with rmb/lmb, or in draw mode with "alt" and rmb/lmb (besides highlighting it also switches to colorpick mode).

Just a little thing: Insert PCK doesn't seem to be working

Confirmed. Weird thing. Guess it's some unfinished version, just recompiled and it became fine. Reuploaded.

[x60mmx]

I just used MCD Edit to do a lot of graphics work on the tank graphics, exported the png, and it runs all jacked because MCD Edit put the images in rows of 10.  :-/  Anyway to have it export in rows of 8, or any tool out there to do it?

[Hobbes]

I just used MCD Edit to do a lot of graphics work on the tank graphics, exported the png, and it runs all jacked because MCD Edit put the images in rows of 10.  :-/  Anyway to have it export in rows of 8, or any tool out there to do it?

You can define the ruleset so that it accepts images in rows of 10.

[Solarius Scorch]

You can copy MCDs (number of) into clipboard (they are copied as text), and then paste them into another mcdset, if you want, or even in text file. I guess you didn't read the thread properly.

I guess. To my defence, I tried it and failed a couple times before it worked properly and never noticed the improvement.

Please refer this
In short - either from the palette just with rmb/lmb, or in draw mode with "alt" and rmb/lmb (besides highlighting it also switches to colorpick mode).

Ah, of course...

Confirmed. Weird thing. Guess it's some unfinished version, just recompiled and it became fine. Reuploaded.

I tried downloading again, and it's the same file size. Was it changed?

[x60mmx]

You can define the ruleset so that it accepts images in rows of 10.

All I had to do was define the image size in the ruleset.  Derp.    Thanks Hobbes.

[volutar]

Well, theoretically I could make this value (sprites per row) externalized (in the config). I just didn't see important reason for that. Yet.
Hobbes, can you confirm working PCK insert now?

[Solarius Scorch]

Well, theoretically I could make this value (sprites per row) externalized (in the config). I just didn't see important reason for that. Yet.

I think it would be very beneficial for the simple reason that Falko's tool has it, and therefore the population (which means me) is used to having this feature. Sure, you don't really need it, but I feel it is kind of a must.

[Hobbes]

Well, theoretically I could make this value (sprites per row) externalized (in the config). I just didn't see important reason for that. Yet.
Hobbes, can you confirm working PCK insert now?

What I meant was this:

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extraSprites:
  - type: INTICON.PCK
    width: 352
    height: 80
    subX: 32
    subY: 40
    files:
      26: Resources/Redux/Craft/DARKSTAR_geoscape.png
  - type: INTICON.PCK
    files:
      27: Resources/Redux/Craft/THUNDERSTORM_GEOSCAPE1.gif
First entry has different .png dimensions than the vanilla INTICON.PCK but you don't need to convert the .png to vanilla dimensions if you specify the different dimensions on a separate entry.

[davide]

I get an access violation importing this PNG

I apologize but my skill on format images are poor

[volutar]

davide, first thing, you made your sheets with 1 pixels between neighbours. Sheets used by MCDedit are not using any spaces.
Second thing, you're using RGB with alpha, the format, which haven't been used for sheets before. So it can't import sheets of this RGBA format properly.

I've reuploaded fixed exe.
But as for "pixel space", and number of tiles per row - it's the thing which I believe would require for some "settings" menu. And for now, you have to change your sheets by removing any spaces, and using exact grid 32x40 pixels.

[davide]

Thank you very much

[volutar]

1.17g uploaded.
PNG spacing/margins (for import/export) and sprites per row (for export) through the Edit->Settings.

Please check it and report if anything wrong.

[davide]

Thank you for your kindness

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It work very well, 
I am working on compress the tileset
tomorrow I will begin to convert the five maps

I know that it is only an experiment because moonbase was in a very early stage
but it could be a test to start a more complicate scenarious