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Graphics > A Good Map Editor

#14297 - plasma - Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:55 pm

I've used MapEditor Beta 4 (by Warder1) to build some maps. Every time I make one bigger than 256x256, the tiles get really screwed up when it runs on the GBA. It saves/exports correctly, but never displays what its supposed to. Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there a better map editor that can use .bmp tiles?

#14305 - Nessie - Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:00 am

Doesn't the search function on the msgBoards work? (an honest question..I've never tried it)

Anyway, here are a couple you might try out.

LevelMapper http://www.GBAtools.com
MapEd http://nessie.gbadev.org/

#14307 - plasma - Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:11 am

It works, but I wanted to know how to fix the problem. If it happened to anyone before, searching would've returned too many results - I never feel like diggin through links

#14465 - Krakken - Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:16 am

Were you using TileMax? If you were then I don't think the exporter plugin works with maps bigger than 256x256 by default. I did make a 512x512 exporter once but it was on my old HD which crashed. Nevertheless i'm sure you could quite easily modify the source code to make one.