LevelEditor

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Hello Community,

(Here you can download an early version: http://www.andengine.org/files/AndEngineLevelEditor.jar the latest version shown below is not available yet.)

recently I got so incredibly frustrated by making levels using a plain TextEditor that I almost cancelled the project. So I decided to make sth to make me more productive...

So I started working on a LevelEditor tool. This LevelEditor is highly flexible as it generates XML code which you can enriched (even manually) with any kind of XML-attributes.
On the other end the developer doesn't even have to handle the actual XML parsing anymore as simple classes are available that make parsing a breeze.

This is what a resulting XML looks like:

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1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
2. <level width="480" height="320">
3.     <entity x="120" y="280" width="40" height="120" fixed="false" type="bounce"/>
4.    
5.     <anotherentity x="208" y="16" width="40" height="120" type="explode" rotate="45"/>
6. </level>

Parsed in 0.002 seconds, using GeSHi 1.0.8.4

This is the current version of the LevelEditor:

leveleditor_preview_5.png (166.89 KiB) Viewed 5267 times

And this is how it can look on an actual device (different level!):

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Hope you like it I'll keep you up to date

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[albrandroid]

Looks great..

This would really save a lot of time for creating xml Levels.

[Mimminito]

This is the sort of thing I thought of before. I know what you mean about creating levels within a Text Editor. Its a pain!

Nice work though, look forward to testing this baby out!

[alex]

In addition to a level-editor, I thought that a path editor might be handy as well. Something that creates smooth loops and lets the developer specify what sprite indexes to show during whatever section of a path.

[blandonfrank]

Looks pretty good. It will definitely help out to become a little bit more productive
I was/ it is so time consuming to create the levels on a text editor!

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Update:

leveleditor_preview_2.png (36.12 KiB) Viewed 6541 times

We are getting closer to something useful

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[Radzell]

what language is it in and are you going to release the source?

[Nicolas Gramlich]

It's written in Java, using Swing. I'm not 100% sure if it will be free/OpenSource but its a rather simple to make tool so that chances are very good that it will be free.

I'll maybe turn this into a very powerful editor in the future though

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[Mimminito]

Damn, should of used C#!! Would of been a lot easier I think But nice work, its very tempting to try and do something similar for educational purposes...

[Nicolas Gramlich]

The basics are pretty much finished now. I was just thinking of adding some kind of "templates" one could create, which would simply be a number of Attributes which wouldn't have to be entered each and every time for objects of the same 'category'.

I think I'll release a beta tomorrow

Best Regards,
Nicolas