See #35

• Delete old worldmap code
• Handle unknown tags
• Write to file. (Currently tileset isn't. Try running a worldmap)

A crash or other interrupt of the writing to a level file leaves it in a half-written state. This means the level cannot be used any longer.

The problem is that the worldmap is being run from the wrong location.

Interacting with tiles is exhausting (since you need to select them one-by-one). Better idea would be:
Have objects (like the run sign which consists of those 4 or whatever tiles)
Objects that have variable height could also be possible, height could be adjusted using the scroll wheel, or something.

This would be done automatically after changing tileset so changes are made visible immediately

For example billboards on Welcome to antarctica

Instead of first creating a ladder and then putting a climbable object that covers it, we should create some item that makes creating a climbable ladders easy.

Not as an object shown inside the level, it might confuse users.

Specifying sprite filenames for badguys each time is simply bad. IMO we should scan for .sprite files and add them to a "Sprite library". Then selecting a sprite would be much easier!

Actually, let's create a resource library! Makes it much easier to deal with resources of any kind.

When you hover over a button in the editor, some text appears displaying 'Text' rather than the function to be executed upon clicking.

We could combine creating levels, worldmaps and other content in a project view.

That could be a sidebar tree view that contains all content, parent node is the add-on project.

Sub-nodes can contain media (custom sprites, custom sounds etc.), levels and worldmaps.

Latest and greatest. I think it's better to stay updated.

In the level "Oh no! More snowballs!" the tilemap displays at 0|0 even though it has a path attribute which shows that it should display in a way to cover the secret area.

https://github.com/SuperTux/flexlay/blob/develop/supertux/supertux.py#L86
This is bad. Search through the function for raise and add those Exception types only

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "supertux/gui.py", line 544, in load_level
self.load_worldmap(filename)
File "/supertux/gui.py", line 561, in load_worldmap
worldmap = WorldMap(filename)
File "supertux/worldmap.py", line 51, in init
tree = load_lisp(self.filename, "supertux-worldmap")
File "supertux/util.py", line 30, in load_lisp
raise Exception("Error: '%s' is not a '%s' file" % (filename, root_symbol))
Exception: Error: 'data/levels/world1/worldmap.stwm' is not a 'supertux-worldmap' file

Currently only one is added, even though many may exist

• Update LayerSelector
• supertux/gui.py : self.sector -> self.sectors

Could show a shadow outline or minature version of the level. This means you can easily see where you're editing

Create a wizard to set some values that are expected of a new level straight away.

• Level Name
• Level Author
• Level Music
• Level Background
• Level Width & Height
• Level Camera Style
• Level License (drop down?)

It would be great to have a source view for the lisp contents of a level, preferably with syntax highlighting.

When you create a level...

So the user can delete objects

@tobbi

• z-pos
• solid

For example, Antarctica, Forest, Castle terrain generator

Title says it all

Packaging an add-on is rather difficult at the moment. A wizard that automatically creates a zip file out of a couple of levels, images and sounds (if needed) would be really cool.

A nice friendly pop-up should appear if the config file is missing which asks you to browse to your supertux folder and select the data directory and executable file.

It seems you need one to do anything, but of course the flexlay editor does not create one.

Somehow get this variable to be the hover text

Currently the EditorMap has a list of layers which only ever has 1 item! This ObjectLayer contains all the objects. Anyone reading the code may think EditorMap.add_layer(tilemap_layer) would add that layer, but it won't.

It looks like the graphics in Flexlay are a little rusty, I found this cool site with tons of free icons:
https://icomoon.io/#preview-free
You can download them as a number of different formats such as png, pdf, and even svg. So you can edit them!

Display a thumbnail in the properties widget when showing images

You can't change layers at all at the moment!

• Add/Remove layers
• Hide/Show layers.
• Hide All/Show All layers
• Paint/Select on a certain layer
• The above, except with tilemaps that don't start at (0,0)

A QTreeView which mirrors the format of the level file's s-expr tree

Instead of specifying username contact info, default license etc. at each start, we should save these kinds of data in the preferences.

Currently, the background layer often appears in front of the interactive layer. This appears to be a problem with the loading of the levels, rather than the rendering of them.

Can be found at flexlay/supertux/TODO :

ToDo:

• smooth selection
• tile editor
• wrapper sexpr parser into a read class, LispReader like
• scrollbar in tileselector
• gui and some magic to set the supertux datadir
• support additional layers (paralax and normal)
• doors/sector support needs improvement
• moving platforms + path
• camera path
• automatic backup of files
• get rid of make_metadat, get_ruby_object in SuperTux code
• faster tile-loading (load on demand, pixelbuffer cache)
• make controlpoints unzoomable
• fix load/save and write a few testcases for them
• seperate undoable functions from not undoable ones
• provide feature to group/suspend undo/redo
• objects need to have visible text-labels attached to them (name of spawnpoints, etc.)
• all pseudo object without position (background, particle-system) should be placed beside each other beginning at 0, -32. (Currently they're all placed at 0,0)

Bugs

• switching to the current sector resets visible properties
• sometime the tilemap is alot huger than the level

So you can't undo them... Add an 'Apply' button?

I think including a reference about badguys, good practices etc. could make the editor even greater.

Aka, what does each badguy do, is it burnable, squishable, everything we have on the wiki right now. Since some people who might not have internet all the time might want to create levels as well...

So they show the most recent textures.

When you scroll, you cannot scroll as far as you want to. This doesn't happen so much with levels loaded from other files

I am not sure how hard this is, but for people who want to create levels but do not know English, it might be great to support i18n for the editor.

Currently there are all kinds of fancy tools in the toolbar but no select tool. We should definitely add that, otherwise the user cannot change any objects of the level.

'nuff said.

Any shortcuts, or faster ways to render the tilemaps and objects, particularly when zoomed out.
Currently, it is slow on my laptop when zoomed out, and sometimes even when zoomed in

• In the overview, show z-index and button to change visibility next to each layer
• You can't add/remove any layers: #1
• #58, but there's even more options than z-index and solid
• Treat particles, such as rain, snow and ghosts, as well as thunderstorms as layer instead of showing them as object in the level
• Always order tilemaps correctly (by z-pos) in selector and editormap (e.g. when undoing delete)