Alignment & JSON export

Autarc

Aug 11, 2013 at 10:37 am

An alignment helper which shows the relation betweeen a previous selected point and the current position of the cursor could be useful. Even if its just a simple transparent connecting line - it would help for composing the different elements.

Moreover supporting JSON (aside of XML) as another basic export format would be great. Especialy modern browser games created in JavaScript / TypeScript could take leverage of it and parse them natively.

Danik

Aug 11, 2013 at 10:58 am

Yes, maybe. It could be used to draw parallel lines too.

JSON support would be nice, I'm using JSON as the internal storage format for .pyxel documents so adding that should be straightforward.

tacoe

Aug 13, 2013 at 1:51 pm

+1 for JSON export. Right now we use the plaintext since the XML is so unwieldy, but it doesn't have all the info. Do people even use XML anymore these days? :)

Danik

Aug 13, 2013 at 3:34 pm

Okay, I will try to add JSON support soon. Maybe for the first release, but I can't promise.

zenmumbler

Sep 8, 2013 at 4:07 pm

The JSON format is rather XML-y right now. Instead of {"0":{…}, "1":{…}} you can use an array instead [{…},{…}]

As in the XML filtering thread, here too a sparse export would be helpful, i.e. not exporting empty tiles and/or leaving out default attribute values.

Danik

Sep 8, 2013 at 8:38 pm

Yeah, maybe I should change it to an array. I think I will make sparse export an option, because I think it might complicate import a bit for some. It wouldn't work to export sparse tile indices as an array though since you lose the position information, and I want to keep things consistent. I'll have to think about it.