Now that Maped3 is out making the rounds to gasps of awe and wonder and sometimes expletives, this thread has been created for user feedback with bugs, suggestions, or questions.

Please refrain from "Maped3 r0x0rz!!!!!" We know you're thinking it.

So to start: Things you may not know-

Ctrl+Click is the eyedropper function. Try it. You'll like it.

From the readme:
"The bottom left [tool] is the copy/paste tool. To use it, select this tool and hold down the shift button, drag a rectangle, and release to copy a single-layer region. Then click to paste the region.

To use multi-layer copy (will copy all layers including obstructions and zones), hold CTRL+SHIFT to copy, and CTRL+CLICK to paste."

The layers work inverted to that of Photoshop or Paintshop.
The topmost tile layer is the first to be rendered, and therefore the bottom-most layer in maped will show up on top. You'll get used to it.

You can create an image in your favorite image editor then select an area (in multiples of 16 to be accurate) copy, hop into maped3 goto Vsp/Import/from: Clipboard and viola, insta-tiles. This is a handy workaround for the MIA Tiled.

That should get you up and running.

Now for some feature suggestions that are floating around:

NOTE: These aren't current features, so don't post saying they don't work ;D

Old School tile selection hotkeys:
A,S for primary
Z, X for secondary.

Middle Mouse-Click to Pan around the map.

Floating toolbars.

VSP Animations.
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Your turn.

I already posted this before in the release thread but this is probably a better place.

I desperately need a way of making an image into a map without having to go through and put each tile into the map. either that or make the tile size user defined ^_^

the problem is my v3 game is in 1024x768 and the maps will be just a big image probably. The way the maped is working right now, I'd have to individually place 6912 tiles manualy for a somewhat small map.

good as long as thats implemented, i'll be quiet =p

Thank yuh much

I had some issues last night when trying to save maps (as in, it wouldn't work at all, crashing with an "Index is outside bounds of the array." Function trace is :

System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at ZLIB.Encode(Byte[] src)
at winmaped2.InputOutput.WriteVsp(FileInfo fi, Vsp24 vsp)
at winmaped2.MainWindow.SaveMap(Map m, Boolean ForcePrompt)
at winmaped2.MainWindow.miSaveAs_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
... (before this was lots of System.Windows menu command objects)


Anyway, I seem to have narrowed it down to only crashing when I try to save a map with no obstructions defined. Now that I've figured that out, it's sort of silly that I found it, what with it offering to auto generate obstructions for you, but anyway.

When this error happens, you can "Continue" just fine, but no .map file is written, but a .vsp file is written... but I've had no luck actually loading that .vsp file in the future.

Hope that helps.

Minor probl3m. Maped Doest open up for me at all. Well it does sort of, When I ctrl-alt-del it shows that the process is running, but there are no windows up or anything visual happening.

Also I'm Running Windows XP

-edit

If I let the program run for about a minute then This error message pops up

Application has generated an exception that could not be handled

Process id=0xcb0 (3248), Thread id=0x1dc

thats probably no help tho.

A PackEd issue. I tried opening it, but as soon as it loaded in, this came up:

Drag Drop Registration failed.

************** Exception Text **************
System.InvalidOperationException: DragDrop registration failed. ---> System.Threading.ThreadStateException: The current thread must set to Single Thread Apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it.
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetAcceptDrops(Boolean accept)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetAcceptDrops(Boolean accept)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListView.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListView.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
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packed
Assembly Version: 1.0.1520.28787
Win32 Version: 1.0.1520.28787
CodeBase: file:///C:/VERGE/SULLY_CHRONICLES_2004-04-04/PACKED.EXE
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.windows.forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.drawing/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
Accessibility
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/accessibility/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/accessibility.dll
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Okay Ignore my last message. I thought that .net came with
XP. My bad....

new maps dont have an entities layer (fixed)

Would it be possible to also have it automatically add an entities layer to any maps it loads that don't have one (such as maps we've been working on with the current release), so we don't have to start them over? That would kick lots of ass.

That would be the mousewheel bug thats fixed in the next release

Well, it appears that there isn't a method to delete a tile from the VSP.
That'd be handy.

Also a shortcut like ctrl+I or ctrl+r (from Flash functionality)
to pull up the import dialogue box would be handy, since that's really the only way of incorporating artwork, at the moment.

It would be nice if Maped3 carried over view parameters from map to map, so that if you have entities and obstructions hidden on one map, they'd be hidden when you opened a new map or re-opened the current one.

Also, while working on grass tiles, I had the idea for a seed tile function, which would randomly lay down tiles from a selected sequence. For instance, you'd create 4/5 different grass tiles which are patternable, lay down the first from the series where the grass should be, then pull up the seed dialogue box which would let you specify the paremeters like the target tile, and VSP tiles to seed from, and Maped would randomly replace the original single tile with one from the seed stable. Or perhaps you could set up a 'seed' tile, say tile number 69, specify which tiles to seed from, and whenever you laid that tile, it would dynamically choose from its seed stable.

You know.