External Graphics Editor

[durnurd]

I found this program (also on SourceForge) that looks like a pretty good graphics editor designed specifically for creating tile-based 2d game graphics.  So if you have problems with the full-screen graphics editor or just don't like full-screen, then here's a pretty good replacement for the graphics portion. (And it's easy to import the graphics into SGDK)

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/

[durnurd]

Or, for that matter, if you want to make nice graphics.  I mean, the built-in SGDK graphics editor is nice, but this is frankly just nicer.

[billybob884]

hmmm, i belive ive seen this before, but it looks a lot different. must have changed a lot since i saw it last. wasn't very easy to use when i found it though...

[GameDeveloper]

   It has pretty good functions, and handy tools for creating good graphics in a short amount of time, but I probably won't use it since you can only make tiles of just one size.  I suppose SGDK has that over it [multiple sizes].  It's pretty handy though, like I said, I like the features.

[durnurd]

Well, SGDK can only use tiles of one size per tileset too.  If you're talking about the map editor, I didn't take a look at that really, but the tile editor can make tiles of different sizes if you make different projects.

[GameDeveloper]

  Oh, wow, I didn't notice that.  Well, in that case, I might try to figure this thing out and get used to it.  It does seem easy to use, and now that I know you can change tile size, I might try to use it.  Thanks for pointing that out , I was just going to forget about it.