Building my maps
by Eric Kinkead · 01/19/2007 (10:35 am) · 7 comments
I am having an OK time building maps in TGB compared to other editors I have used in decades of making 2D maps. I am however in a wrestle match with the movement of the screen. For some reason my arrow keys seem to not work when nothing is selected. So I am having to zoom all the way out edit from a distance, and then zoom in to check my work. I dont think that the arrow keys should also move objects around pixel by pixel if those keys where also assigned to move the camera around if nothing was selected. Perhaps I still need to mess with it more to find the editing ability I desire, but i would rather be able to have other keys assigned to moving the screen around and keep the arrow keys assigned to moving objects around.
more to come...
more to come...
#3
01/19/2007 (5:00 pm)
Right click and drag ;) 
#4
01/20/2007 (1:44 am)
@Tom -- Shhh, I want a reason to write a good resource that can be used as an example ;)
#5
Easy Edit v1.0.0
01/20/2007 (3:11 am)
@Alan, if you really do have a need for it, and Right-Click/Drag isn't suffecient -- give this a whirl:Easy Edit v1.0.0
#6
David. I have found that I can re-activate my arrow keys by changing the preferences to W,A,S,D . Then my arrow movement kicks back in. Thanks for the Navigator! I will check it out. I have another problem that is really major I will post a blog about.
02/16/2007 (11:00 am)
OMG! I didnt even check my blog... I need to do that more often!! To much dealing with publishers lately. LOL. I need to click that notify when new comments thing..David. I have found that I can re-activate my arrow keys by changing the preferences to W,A,S,D . Then my arrow movement kicks back in. Thanks for the Navigator! I will check it out. I have another problem that is really major I will post a blog about.
#7
02/16/2007 (2:50 pm)
@Eric, your welcome
Associate David Higgins
Would you find it useful if there was a directional floater that had n,ne,e,se,s,sw,w,nw movement buttons on it that you could click when zoomed in to move the camera direction? I could make such a floater as a custom resource and release it to the community (might take a few days). Also, I can't remember -exactly- where the option is, but there's an option in one of the preference files that dictates how much of a 'move' the camera makes -- I bumped it up quite a bit, and my camera now moves a 1/4 screen at a time, rather then a few measly pixels.
I was toying with the idea of releasing a few editor resources to help with tile map editting, such as the floater I mentioned above -- just let me know if you think it would be useful, and I'll put some time into it --