Tile Creation 3

[XpMe_v1.2]

A newer version of Tile Creation will return soon.
A lot eaiser to use and with a LOT more features.
Details coming soon....   ::)

[XpMe_v1.2]

The program does roughly what the last version did.
And is a work in progress(I'm open to suggestions after you use it)
I removed the popup menu and now use a regular top menu bar setup which is eaiser to use.
To avoid the menu while draging an image around you must use hold down the RIGHT mouse button
while draging around the image. And then use the left button for the menu. A lot better!
You can load a large selection of image types. But to make it easier for saving it will only save
a captured images as  'PNG' image. This is to avoid getting confused as to what image format you
may of have saved it as.

But there is MORE...(3 programs total)
really?
Yes.
It contains 2 more programs inside it.
really?
From the menu you can go to the program called Tile EDGE.
This program can use the the captured tile from tile creation or reload a saved Tile.
Or use the default tile set(47 tiles).
You can the use selections from the menu to change the looks of this tile set.
I have got some great unexpected tile sets using this program.
When your happy then you can save the 47 tiles as a large imager file.

The next program inside
really?
Yes.
This one is a tile mapper program which will do a map from 10 - 1000 tiles squared(bigger if someone requests it to be.)
using the Tile EDGE tiles.
So draw a map

Just draw. It will select the correct tile for the map. You don't have to select in this program.


and then you can save it to a text file for reloading to a program.
I'll provide enough code to reload it and the images inside of a text file.
The array will look like this Map(1000,2).

The programs don't take much effort to figure out.
And I didn't give full details to everything inside. But it does have built in helpscreens.
I haven't compiled it yet since i'm using a Beta version.
But it will be released soon.

[XpMe_v1.2]

Today i'm considering selecting a web hosting site to re-opening a website again.
The name will not be allgamemusic.com(too long for a name)
but a different shorter name i'm thinking about.
Then place Tile Creation there for downloads.
Then later other programs as I update them for the web sites new path/location.

[XpMe_v1.2]

I  have started a new web site.
You will see me add to it programs-music-etc... to over the next few weeks.
the location is....

http://tilemusic.com/

[XpMe_v1.2]

Tile Creation 3  is now ready for downloads.

click below to download as my website...

http://tilemusic.com/

[XpMe_v1.2]

posted some tiles in last message.
The first 2 contain 47 tiles each for the mapper program.
The last 2 are just tiles I saved.
Full screen images are too large(kb) to put here. so...
http://tilemusic.com/
Full screen images can viewed at the web site by clicking on each image for a full view.

[kevin]

use jpg

[XpMe_v1.2]

have to go to work. whill change it on next web site update.
Besides the image - site comments - what you(kevin) think of the program?
Havn't heard a single posted comment from anyone yet.

[kevin]

what you(kevin) think of the program?

   It seems ok.   A few annoying tidbits that come to mind would be the menu dialogs. Like why do i have to close the 'close' option under each section.  Why not check the menu state for when a sub menu is open, then when the user clicks react accordingly.  So if they click a menu item, call the function to do whatever, if it's not a menu click ignore it, or check the other sub menus for collisions. 

   A few other ideas would to set up some type of layers/masking & distortion functions.    So the tile can be build from not just the fragment but it can be composite of fragments.  Another idea could be to set the application so it'll fetch the textures from the server on demand, rather than shipping the app with a bunch of images.   so app queries the serves for the text list,  it then download the thumbnails from the server, then the use and pick the one that want to experiment with.   Which would avoid the inevitble upgrade/bandwidth problem shipping then entire thing each time.

   Also, what you could do, is rather than rotate the texture, you could rotate the box. Which you give you much the same result.

Havn't heard a single posted comment from anyone yet.

Well that's a two way street.

[XpMe_v1.2]

I spent time the earlier part of this year rewriting tile creation program so it
could be eaiser to use without pop-up menus.
Then I thought of a way to to use the tile creation image into a tile shape program.
Thats where the Tile EDGE part comes in.
Calculate what the tile shape number is next to the surrounding tiles.
Then add some sort of image design to it for the outer surfaces as needed.
Then go to the 1 layer mapper program where a map could be drawn and a array could be
saved to disk.
When I change to the top bar menus I had in mind to have where you left mouse click
elsewhere for the menu to close or show othe menus as you mouse cruise over the top
menu bar(Like most windows programs do). Just got used to it but as I will have
updates then it will be corrected.
As it gets updated I will add more to the effects to getting a tile and also more to
the image/color selection of the mapper creation of 47 tiles.
The part 'fetch the textures from the server' i've never tried. If in the future
I figure out how to do it the I may do that.
As for comments. Thats what I asked for.
To see what anyone thinks about it.
And you have given good comments.

[XpMe_v1.2]

Updated the program to version 3.002

If you click on the top menu bar selection the you enable the dropdown to appear.
Then as you move from selection to selection the dropdowns changes to selection.
The dropdown menu now closes if you 'Left' click away from any dropdown showing.
Removed all images inside the zip file.
Also updated web site. All the FREE jpg images now may be downloaded there.