Hi All,
The game I'm developing requires both tiled placement and free-form placement of sprites of varying sizes and shapes. I was struggling to find something that could do this nicely, then I stumbled across this little gem
GLEED2D
This editor is great, you can use snap to grid to get tile based maps, then disable the snap to grid and start creating a more organic environment. I really like it and thought that it might come in handy for somebody else too.
It exports to XML, but it has a really straight forward layout, I managed to create a level parser in one evening. If you set the root directory on the Level node to the base directory where all of you map images are stored, you have to use separate images in the editor. Then when you export the map each tile item will have just the texture file name without the directory path e.g. Mytexture.png. Then you can use this directly to read it from the atlas sheet at runtime.
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