In the TS, second parameter of ScriptAction [DoThis] (11,X in map) contains 25 value, while in RA2/YR it is 30/32.
Some values have added or changed their numbering in RA2/YR. But ScriptAction [DoThis] in WAE for YR, still maintaining the form in TS.

Values for RA2/YR update can be find in Assign New Mission part at [https://modenc.renegadeprojects.com/ScriptTypes/ScriptActions]

As title says, the OverlayTypes aren't the only ones with entire categories of objects....

In my mod I have dozens of specific TerrainTypes, like cherry blossom and almond trees, hay bails and such, that really could use their own groupings.

The current tool for counting credits cannot be used map-wide, because the map is a rectangle and the tool selection area is a a rotated rectangle (diamond). FS/FA2 always display credits on map, here it could be implemented as a C# script or a Tools menu entry.

Within current and latest FA2SP, when selecting a cell or cliffs and hovering over the ground to place them, you can press 'Page Up / Page Down' to raise or lower the height of the cell you are about to place respectively.

This is a huge QOL improvement.

As the title describes, when using Script Action #4 "Move to Cell", there could be an option to center the map view to the cell location when pressing "Enter" on the Cell Number text box.

This will make it easier to retrace the steps when viewing other maps that use this script action, or reviewing your own maps.

Currently there's no way to browse or select anything not *.map from within WAE, only during startup where it can be manually typed. At the very least there should be some consistency allowing a user to type in a name there too, but even better would be just to have a way to show all files, or allow us to define the file extensions we want to see.

Just a simple dropdown where we could see all the common map types, .map/.mpr/.yrm, and an additional "everything" choice is enough. There's probably no sense defining custom types in one of the configs to enable this, it should just show them all, but if additional mod-specific extensions are possible to add to the list, then maybe?

When displaying or modifying the ice growth flag of cells, the graphical overlay and the cursor ignore terrain height, causing them to appear misplaced.

Tested using the TS client build from the 1.0 release.

If possible, please prioritize deleting celltags before deleting anything under the celltag.

Or create a separate "Delete Celltags" "Delete Waypoints" Tool.

Or when selecting "Delete" you can select options of what types to delete (i.e. terrain, overlays, units, infantry, structures, celltags, waypoints, ... , select all).

YDrawFudge in rules.ini offsets the drawing of a terrain type's shape on the Y-axis. Currently, the key is not read by WAE, causing for example the various "Fona" types in TS:Firestorm to appear several pixels lower than they do in-game.

Example:

[FONA01]
YDrawFudge=-12 ;this object is fudged 12 pixels upwards

In TS, the game ignores any color tint from light posts during Ion Storms, adjusting only the ambient brightness. However in WAE, when previewing the Ion Storm lighting, light posts emit color like in normal lighting.

Tested on version 1.0

Currently, the "Paint Low Bridge" tool only paints the one bridge version, it should be expanded to support other bridge types (as well as high bridges) and preferably be de-hardcoded.

Copy paste tool is one of the most important tools of WAE, but sometimes is necesary delete objects to paste, it's specially a problem with smudges. and copy paste object properties could be useful as FA.

-Add an checkbox to overwrite each type of object, current WAE only replace overlays and tiles.
-Add an checkbox to copy object properties.

Large buildings can be displayed with drawing artifacts or not displayed at all. It is yet to be determined if it's caused by foundation size or overall shape dimensions.

Example (using buildings from Mental Omega 3.3.X):

When selecting Primary and/or Secondary Teamtype, there is no <none> option unless you specifically type it in the search bar.

Phobos introduces local/global variables with integer values instead of binary. A toggle in editor configuration could be added to enable this feature in map editor as well.

I don't know the solution here, but the fallback to "generic" doesn't seem to be supported. Snow maps load all the player buildings, but urban maps won't, when NewTheaterBuildingLetter=U.

Either make NewTheaterBuildingLetter into a list, like NewTheaterBuildingLetter=U,G to indicate priority, or add a separate tag like EnableGenericFallback=yes to accomplish the same.

Currently lacks the ability to set the start height as is seen in FA2

Looking at the code, it appears WAE loads theater mixes last (on-demand) for the map, probably in an effort to save memory. I do not see any sort of filtering regarding loading mod content beforehand....

Sooooo perhaps a filename collision check added to the mapfile theater loading section is enough, to see if that particular resource (tile in this case) is already loaded? It wasn't clear to me if all the filenames available in the game+mod are recorded to compare against.

I don't think the alternative of recording which secondary mix also contains terrain, and then re-loading it after the theater mixes is quite as elegant.

Seems silly not to be able to unclick the place waypoint, the interface doesn't make it exceptionally clear what mode you're in when using the tools, and it's easy to be stuck with a tool you didn't want. I would expect a simple ESC could cancel the dialog asking for WP number, but a way to cancel/close it would be good too.

When you go to "Map Size" and click "Change Map Size...", clicking X or Apply doesn't take you back to the "Map Size" window like it would in FinalSun. After changing a map's size, mappers will almost always need to adjust the Visible Map Area right afterwards, so having to reopen the "Map Size" window every time is inconvenient.

Ideally the "Resize Map" window could also have a checkbox that makes it automatically adjust the Visible Map Area in accordance to values you're resizing the map by.

if simply delete and re-create base nodes, this node will be put in the last of the building list. making base nodes draggable will be convenient to adjusting bases.

The release zip package includes MapEditorSettings.ini, which causes the user's settings to be reverted every time they replace WAE's files with a new version. Considering that WAE already generates this file on its own, it's better to not include it.

Currently, it seems that the only way to paint connected overlays like walls is manually by picking the right frame. There should be a tool for this like in FA2.

If a TechnoType is listed in rules twice, it shouldn't be registered twice, as the game doesn't do that either.
Exists in vanilla YR with NAPSYA.

The current RTG interface can be admittedly pretty confusing and overwhelming for a beginner user.

1. The arbitrarily hardcoded amount and order of groups is pretty overwhelming on the first sight and the hardcoded tab order means flexibility limitiations.
2. IMO separate chances for specifically open and closed cells (which are also named confusingly IMO) are an unneded complications and seldom used to warrant the two co-existing.

What I propose instead is a dynamic group list UI for any amount of groups which wouldn't be as overwhelming for the user.

The user would be able to create his own groups (may even name them) with arbitrary group contents which they can pick by pressing on the selected tiles/objects on the left of each group (a "bag"), and specify where they should appear and with what frequency. Group amount would be a bit bigger because it would not be possible to specify different open/closed frequencies for the same group, but not many groups are like this and chances are you would want a different set of stuff when painting over/under something anyways.

Currently maps are not affected by map lighting. The editor should be able to display map or ion storm lighting by tinting and darkening all graphics. The editor could also take Ground value into account, changing brightness of cells at different heights.

The editor should display AlphaImage graphics of objects placed on the map. Details on AlphaImage quirks: https://modenc.renegadeprojects.com/AlphaImage

Example configuration in rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEBUILDING]
AlphaImage=          ; file name without .shp extension

As per conversations on Discord, it seems only the Theater= tag is supported, so NewTheater= support would be additional, rather than a change. Just like BuildingTypes can use Theater art instead of NewTheater in RA2, overlay walls should support NewTheater.

I just double-checked and even unbuildable walls work fine with NewTheater art, with the only change being that they automatically use isoxxx.pal instead of unitxxx.pal (which is what walls defined as buildings use)...

Some scrollbars would be nice?

WAE should include a tool to draw cliffs automatically as close to a user-defined path as possible

Some building animations are missing or displayed incorrectly.

Examples:

• NGRADR_A rendered under NGRADR.
  

• NGRADR_A rendered as healthy when the building is damaged
  

• NGCNST_C not rendered
  

Currently there are two themes available ("Default" and "Tiberium"), neither of which is editable via INIs. It would be nice to have a system similar to that of XNA Client.

All strings should be separated from code to allow for easy translation into multiple langauges.

The map editor will never find the installation path for YR because it is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, not HKEY_CURRENT_USER

As title states, buildings with Palette=lib are still rendered using' unit*.pal

The map editor should display tiled light emitted from BuildingTypes.

Example configuration from rulesmd.ini:

[GALITE]
LightVisibility=5000
LightIntensity=0.2
LightRedTint=0.05
LightGreenTint=0.05
LightBlueTint=0.01
; rest omitted for brevity

Most of my rock and debris (logs) overlays have at least 2 frames of artwork, often the same art with a different tint, such as sandy/tan vs blue/gray, for use in different spots. I have several rock overlays that have at least 20 frames.

The collections function only uses the first frame, which makes it rather useless in my case, BUT, to be really useful, we should be able to specify not only the overlay (per line) but the frame of that overlay. This way we could include or exclude alternative tint frames for those that use them, or as an example create a collection of only the darkest rocks (frames) of each overlay.

Something like OverlayType0=TROCK01,1 where the extra argument is frame #, but defaults to the first frame without. Frame # could start at zero or one, as long as it's clarified, but I would expect from zero.

At present, in text boxes(like Action Description), the newline logic of text is based on the recognition of spaces between words. However, for some other languages (such as Chinese), spaces may not be used in their language systems, which leads to the program believing that the entire paragraph is a single word, resulting in some multilingual processing problems.

Sidebar previews should include the whole object, including turrets, barrels, building animations, etc.

Someone had to say it!

Presently, the editor itself does not support Linux. It uses a windows-specific runtime and has items such as WinForms in use.
While wine (+ mono) is able to make certain elements run on linux, dotnet 7 is expected to support linux there are no dotnet 7 runtime dependencies for wine (at least accessibly through winetricks), so it is unable to run the editor.

While the updater is less important, as it will likely be updated through a mod's cncnet client rather by a developer rather than an individual user, having the editor support linux (at least through linux compatibility) would be extremely useful.

Given how FA2 can be run through wine, it would be sad to see it's replacement be restricted to Windows.

Copy and paste tool only shows tiles in preview, in the next pic I copied everything except tiles, there is no way to know the exact position of the objects.

Add a marker for the centre of a map, similar to FA2 with its starting player positions, as seen in the attached image:

In order to avoid features being destroyed, we need to set a limit of what the tools will deform, and it makes most sense to enable it for all the LAT tiles, which we already know are 1x1.

...

Additionally, since RampBase and RampFix can be changed to match up with another tileset, for example "grass" in urban in SE, ideally there should be a way to force/override the default flat tile used when morphing the ground back to level. FA2 defaults to ClearTile, which is fine, but we should have the ability to pick an alternate tileset, also a 1x1, also logically a LAT tileset, but not critical to be one I would think?

Theaters.ini seems like the right place to add this override, and I could see it being practical to use both the tile group names defined at the very beginning of the theaters (GreenTile, SandTile, ClearTile, RoughTile) or the tileset number. If the implementation limits the ground morphing to just the LATs, then the naming is fine, if it's opened up to other 1x1 tilesets, then perhaps supporting both styles is best as the value.

Example theaters.ini entry:

[Urban]
ConfigINIPath=urban.ini
ContentMIXName=isourb.mix
TerrainPaletteName=isourb.pal
UnitPaletteName=uniturb.pal
FileExtension=.urb
NewTheaterBuildingLetter=U
MorphedToLevelTileset=GreenTile

Fix should be that the first frame of ActiveAnim= or ActiveAnimDamaged= is applied on top where used.

Log from except.txt

14.10. 19:01:33.872    Unhandled exception! @ 19:01:33
14.10. 19:01:33.872    Message: Invalid font index: 0
14.10. 19:01:33.880    Stack trace:    at Rampastring.XNAUI.Renderer.GetTextDimensions(String text, Int32 fontIndex)
   at Rampastring.XNAUI.XNAControls.XNALabel.RefreshClientRectangle()
   at Rampastring.XNAUI.XNAControls.XNALabel.set_Text(String value)
   at TSMapEditor.UI.MainMenu.Initialize() in D:\a\TSMapEditor\TSMapEditor\src\TSMapEditor\UI\MainMenu.cs:line 52
   at Rampastring.XNAUI.WindowManager.AddAndInitializeControl(XNAControl control)
   at TSMapEditor.Rendering.GameClass.InitMainMenu() in D:\a\TSMapEditor\TSMapEditor\src\TSMapEditor\Rendering\GameClass.cs:line 139
   at TSMapEditor.Rendering.GameClass.Initialize() in D:\a\TSMapEditor\TSMapEditor\src\TSMapEditor\Rendering\GameClass.cs:line 133
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DoInitialize()
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run(GameRunBehavior runBehavior)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run()
   at TSMapEditor.Program.Main(String[] args) in D:\a\TSMapEditor\TSMapEditor\src\TSMapEditor\Program.cs:line 26

Currently SHP turrets on buildings are not shown at all. The editor should draw them and show correct facing.

Example configuration in rulesmd.ini:

Turret=yes                         ; boolean
TurretAnim=                        ; Animation
TurretAnimDamaged=                 ; Animation
TurretAnimIsVoxel=no               ; boolean
TurretAnimX=0                      ; integer
TurretAnimY=0                      ; integer

The second LAT Pavement in new urban is quite useful. Is there a way to add it to the LATPanel, even if it's not actually a LAT tile?

Add an option to enable / disable an overlay or visual representation of what's hidden with cloak generators or gap generators attached to objects when placed.

Would be very useful for towers designated to protect survival style AI spawns to make sure things are hidden properly.

Weapons are already parsed for their ranges, I assume would just need to add this to the parsing? But beyond my expertise.

As the title states, when you have an AI trigger that uses a different Secondary Teamtype, WAE will replace it with a Duplicated Primary Teamtype when loading the map.

Unsuspecting mappers may then accidentally save these overwritten teamtypes, and cause unintended results with their custom AI triggers.

Note: If they noticed, and fixed, the overwritten values, and then save the map, the corrected values will still be there.

Currently the editor will crash if a building has foundation other than Foundation=WxH, where W and H are width and height. Because of this, editor is not compatible with YR mods using Ares Foundation=Custom feature.

Custom Foundation "reference" (if you can call it that): https://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/_downloads/custom_foundation.html

It appears to me the configuration for custom foundations is as follows:

Foundation=Custom
Foundation.X=                   ; integer, foundation width 
Foundation.Y=                   ; integer, foundation height
Foundation.N=                   ; comma separated pair of integers, X Y coordinates of the Nth foundation cell
FoundationOutline.Length=       ; integer, length of foundation outline in cells, iow. circumference (8 neighbour convention)
FoundationOutline.N=            ; comma separated pair of integers, X Y coordinates of the Nth foundation outline cell

An ad hoc way to address this is to read Foundation.X and Foundation.Y and treat the foundation as a rectangle of this size, but matching foundation outlines require a proper solution.