Tile Editor

Tile Editor Window

Drawing Area

Toolbar Icons and Shortcuts

Icon	Name	Shortcut/Key	Description
	Paint	D	Enable paint mode, left mouse to draw with colour 1, right mouse to draw with colour 2.
	Colour Picker	P	Use the left or right mouse button to select the colour under the mouse pointer.
	Select Tool	S	Enables selection mode.
	Rotate Clockwise		Rotates the whole image 90 degrees clockwise
	Rotate Anti-clockwise		Rotates the whole image 90 degrees anti-clockwise
	Flip		Flips the whole image upside down
	Mirror		Mirrors the whole image
	Fill	F	Fills the area under the mouse with the selected colour
	Toggle Grid	G	Changes the visibility of the grid overlay
	Zoom In	=	Increases the magnification
	Zoom Out	+	Decreases the magnification
	Scroll Left	⇧-⭠	Moves the image left by one pixel wrapping the left column to the right
	Scroll Up	⇧-⭡	Moves the image up by one pixel wrapping the top line to the bottom
	Scroll Down	⇧-⭣	Moves the image down by one pixel wrapping the bottom line to the top
	Scroll Right	⇧-⭢	Moves the image right by one pixel wrapping the right column to the left
	Cut		Copies the selected area to the clipboard clears the selected pixels
	Copy		Copies the selected area to the clipboard
	Paste		Paste from the clipboard

This is the main drawing area, using the left mouse button performs actions using the primary colour, the right mouse button uses the secondary colour. The middle mouse button selectes the colour under the cursor.

Colour Selection

Tiles on the next may use up to 16 colours from a palette of 256. A tiles palette can effectively be split into blocks of 16 colours, and a tile can use any one of those blocks.

Use the spin box to select which block of 16 colours you want to use.

Left click on a colour to select it as the primary (indicated by a number 1)

Right click on a colour to select it as the secondary (indicated by a number 2)

Double click a colour to edit it in the colour editor.

Attributes

Each tile can be assigned a set of properites:

• Solid Edges - select which sides (top, left, bottom or right) are solid.
• Deadly/Harmful - Indicates that this tile has some negative side effect.
• Collectible - A collictible object with some positive side effect.
• Value/Weight - A numerical value that can be used when, for instance, collecting energy.

For the time being, these are stored in the project, but unused by any other feature.

Palette Editor

See Palette Editor