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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on May 25, 2011, 07:12:46 pm

Title: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 25, 2011, 07:12:46 pm

Aichi has started to work on an online sprite editor a while ago, which later spawned a map editor. More features were added and it started to look promising. Here is a screenshot of both as well as an example of map that can be done in it:

(http://xeverion.com/Tools/Asprite/Graphics/Userbar.png) (http://xeverion.com/Tools/Asprite)
(http://xeverion.com/Tools/Amap/Graphics/Userbar.png) (http://xeverion.com/Tools/Amap)

(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/aichimapspriteedit.png)

Some key features are:

-Multiple map sizes support
-Ability to use created sprites in the map editor
-Creating sprite sheets
-Exporting sprites to hex, binary or decimal
-Exporting tilemaps to hex or even a JPEG, the latter being useful to showcase your maps on forums or making game walkthroughs
-Changing map tiles either by clicking the left and right mouse button or by holding down shift or alt then hovering over the appropriate squares
-And many more

Since it is not finished yet, there might be more added in the future. For those who wanted to create sprites and maps on the computer and quickly export them to Axe format, these tools might be for you.

A-Sprite: Online Sprite Editor (http://xeverion.com/Tools/Asprite/)
A-Map: Online Map Editor (http://xeverion.com/Tools/Amap/)

Both tools are going to be added in the Misc (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=7) section of Omnimaga website.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: BrownyTCat on May 25, 2011, 07:34:25 pm

Looks super-handy for plotting multiple sprites to compose a larger image.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Camdenmil on May 25, 2011, 09:14:28 pm

Looks nice, has all the things I would expect from a good sprite/map editor. It would be nice if it supported grayscale though.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Munchor on May 26, 2011, 08:58:51 am

Aichi, I've been following the progress of both these utilities, and I have to say they're awesome, yet again :)

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: jacques on May 27, 2011, 01:42:35 pm

Great project ! Congratulations Aichi ! :D

I made a news on Ti-Bank : http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1127 (http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1127). ;)

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Aichi on May 27, 2011, 02:33:43 pm

Thanks a lot, jacques and DJ_O. :)
The "Export directly as 8xp" feature is progressing well.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: BrownyTCat on May 27, 2011, 02:53:24 pm

Quote from: Aichi on May 27, 2011, 02:33:43 pm

Thanks a lot, jacques and DJ_O. :)
The "Export directly as 8xp" feature is progressing well.

/me will now be able to work a title screen, thanks to you!

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 28, 2011, 09:10:58 am

O.O This looks nice. With as busy as this place gets I sometimes miss topics, and this seems to be one of them.
/me goes off to find Aichi's topic.
:D

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Aichi on May 28, 2011, 09:17:11 am

The project topics are placed in the Web Programming and Design section.

http://ourl.ca/11277
http://ourl.ca/10576
http://ourl.ca/10420

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Munchor on May 28, 2011, 03:21:33 pm

Quote from: Aichi on May 28, 2011, 09:17:11 am

The project topics are placed in the Web Programming and Design section.

http://ourl.ca/11277
http://ourl.ca/10576
http://ourl.ca/10420

What's next, A-Sign? Online Application signer? :P

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Aichi on May 28, 2011, 04:04:56 pm

Quote from: Scout on May 28, 2011, 03:21:33 pm

What's next, A-Sign? Online Application signer? :P

Haha, good joke!
/me writes that idea down in a notepad. :P

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Jonius7 on May 31, 2011, 04:54:49 am

Ooh i was just looking for this and it is interesting to see this was announced only a few days ago! I wanna see if i can use this for my contest entry

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 27, 2011, 01:15:02 pm

Aichi, could you put ASprite and AMap editor back online? They were great tools for Axe programmers and it sucks that you decided to take them offline

At least could you give me the files so I can host them somewhere and get Juju to update the links at http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=7 ?

Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on September 27, 2011, 02:17:29 pm

Yeah, I noticed it today when I needed it. But it looks like he just didn't pay the bill or something.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 27, 2011, 02:22:17 pm

I don't think so. It looks more like he decided to replace his site content and Axe tools with a Minecraft server. (see the root folder)

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on September 27, 2011, 02:30:06 pm

Yeah, I see.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Jonius7 on October 14, 2011, 01:42:51 am

aww. im sad its not here anymore. and has aichi been active in the last few months?

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 14, 2011, 01:47:07 am

I PMed him asking if he was gonna put them back online and he never replied...

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 18, 2011, 07:29:41 pm

That's too bad :( They were very well-designed apps.

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Jonius7 on October 19, 2011, 07:35:27 am

I really liked the map tool. That was quite unique, the ability to copy and paste the sprites while viewing the whole map

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: Jonius7 on March 01, 2012, 08:04:45 am

Now even the minecraft stuff on xeverion.com has disappeared...

Title: Re: A-Map & A-Sprite, a map and sprite editor for Axe programmers
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 04, 2012, 02:45:14 pm

Yeah I think he definitively dropped the idea of putting this back up X.x. I wish he gave us a copy to upload somewhere before moving on...