Level Editor feature requests.

[notsid]

Greetings! I hope the game/editor is still being updated, because I have a few suggestions to make level editing quicker, easier, and perhaps even better.

• Save room templates. Often, I make the same room shape over and over again. It gets tedious just creating the same room shape again and again when I could be just hitting a kind of "copy & paste template" button and then getting to work on tweaking the shape if need be and figuring out my tile/enemy placements. A feature like this would be a godsend! (Also, if there's a way to currently do this that I haven't figured out yet, please let me know! Same with everything else in this thread!)
  
  
• Option to disable diagonal movements. Sometimes, I want to create a dungeon that follows all the rules of the original game. I get that Startropics III is intended to be its own game with its own rules, but I really would like to be able to design puzzles and rooms that revolve around the restrictions of 4 directional movement. It kinda sucks making a puzzle around a 4 directional control scheme, then finding out the whole puzzle can be bypassed/trivialized by simply making a diagonal jump. This setting would have to apply to a whole area, like character selection does. (Example would be to add a dropdown menu labelled "Movement" with "4 directional / 8 directional" as the two options)
  
  
• BOSSES!! I'm sure this has been the #1 requested thing.. but BOSSES!! BOSSES BOSSES BOSSESSSSS!!! :3 Plzplzplzplzpzlplz! I want the C-Serpent! I want the Octopus! I want ZODA! I realize some bosses would be pretty difficult to program, especially the first Zoda encounter with the hands. But PLZ!
  
  
• Boss music in cutscenes. Currently, Zoda can appear as a character in a cutscene. This is great and all, but there's no boss music to go along with him! This simply won't do! No sir!
  
  
• Main weapon limit not always determined by current heart count. I would like to make dungeons that have enough life to currently use a Super Nova, but not actually LET the player use the Super Nova, even if that threshold is reached. It would be interesting to design a dungeon with 22 hearts, but have the main weapon still remain a Yo-yo!
  

I thought I had something else in my head.. but I've forgotten what it was... If I remember, I'll be sure to bump the thread and update it!

Anyway, keep up the amazing work! Do you have anywhere I can donate some $$? I haven't seen a donate button, but then again I haven't really looked hard. You deserve a lil' reward for all the work that you've done!

[gellin]

Hey! You bet this editor is still being worked on, although it's been close to a year since I've released an update...

Room templates are pretty much in there already. You can use Ctrl + C to copy and Ctrl + V to paste a room. Those options can also be found under the Edit menu in the editor. This will copy 95% of the stuff. It looks like it doesn't copy treasure chests, the warp room, area triggers, or dialogue at this time. I'll update it to copy the remaining data.

4 direction movement should be easy to implement in the area properties.

Yeah, yeah... everyone wants bosses I don't make any promises but after many years and numerous requests, it might be time. I've always held off on those because I wanted to implement new bosses. Unfortunately, I've never found anyone to help make any new boss images.

Good call on the boss music. That'll be trivial to toss in.

The weapon selection is a heavily requested feature as well. I'll see what I can do.

As far as $$ is concerned, don't worry about it. I do it simply for the challenge and pleasure that everyone gets out of it. The biggest motivator for me is everyone using it and posting things about it here

[Az]

Bosses + Weapon selection = Dream come true. I'm trying to code an entire new StarTropics story from scratch. And the only thing I'm truly missing is bosses.