Copy and paste

AdamHarte

Sep 24, 2013 at 7:19 am

I think my use case is maybe a little different, but would be great to solve this problem.

I have a made a big image with lots of tiles. I use this file for drawing concepts for an enemy or a sprite etc. I iterate a lot, making copies of tiles, then changing different things to see what works.

Problem is that once I have come up with a good character, I can see no way of creating a new document and copying one of the tiles to it to start working on the different poses/animations etc.

WeslomPo

Sep 24, 2013 at 3:29 pm

Three ways:

1) Stupid, and long: Copy file, delete all tiles what you dont needed.

2) Smart, but hard: Unzip *. Pyxel, find tile what you want. Open Pyxel file -> import -> tileset. Change tileset size like your tile, check import to new (or current document if needed) and voila.

3) Smart and easy, create tileset from tiles what you want, export it to image, and insert in Pyxel like tileset in previous variant.

Danik

Sep 25, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Yeah, this is unneccesarily hard. I will need to find a better way of moving tiles between documents.

Maybe it should be possible to drag and drop tiles from the tileset onto another document.

Like you mention in the title copy paste is another option. The selection tool is obviously not fully working yet but I think this is one of the things it can be used for. Just select the tile with the marquee tool, Ctrl/Cmd+C, move to the other document and paste.

Simon

Sep 26, 2013 at 6:09 am

or the tile brush works cross document. That could help too :)

WeslomPo

Sep 26, 2013 at 9:39 am

Simon, that is bug. xD

Danik

Sep 26, 2013 at 10:29 am

It does? :O

WeslomPo

Sep 26, 2013 at 11:11 am

It does? :O

I try it, and it doesn't work. But if it will work, it be cool. )

Danik

Sep 26, 2013 at 11:15 am

I see, I thought there was a bug. :)

Yeah, that might be a nice feature, although it could also cause some confusion.

Delkaes

Sep 26, 2013 at 6:13 pm

Yop actually with the lasso/select tool when you copy and then paste, it past on the first tile (top left). We know you'll make it better Danik o7

AdamHarte

Sep 27, 2013 at 8:33 am

Yeah I think the tile brush working across documents would be awesome. Would be just like how the current colour selected is also global and not per document (that would be super annoying).

Thndr

Sep 28, 2013 at 10:02 pm

I think the solution would be specific tileset documents.

By default it'll use the tileset inside the pyxel document, but if a user wants, they can specify a secondary file that it loads and saves the tileset too.

I suggest that when the user does load the tileset, it keeps the tilemap so you can have multiple versions of the same tile you can compare when swapping tilesets.

Danik

Sep 29, 2013 at 7:45 am

Thndr, that's actually a very interesting idea..!

Simon

Sep 29, 2013 at 8:00 am

I like that idea too :) that could make my huge file I have a bit smaller again XD currently working with 1284 tiles... It already takes 30sec to load ;)

Danik

Sep 29, 2013 at 11:22 am

1284 tiles, holy crap! :D

WeslomPo

Sep 29, 2013 at 4:57 pm

Danik, I think, there are need to add all tiles into one huge tilemap into a pyxel file. In one game, I loading thousands of tiles in one single bitmap (2048x2048 of 32x32 piece), and it loads miliseconds.

Danik

Sep 29, 2013 at 9:17 pm

WeslomPo, do you mean storing the tiles in a single PNG bitmap in the .pyxel file, instead of separate files?

WeslomPo

Sep 30, 2013 at 4:02 am

Danik, exactly.

Danik

Sep 30, 2013 at 3:53 pm

Yes, it's probably worth looking into.

Thndr

Oct 10, 2013 at 1:49 am

Yeah, stitching and unstitching is faster than file read protocols for a large amount of small files.