Knight Editor: Visual Doodad Editing

Kaelan · 2020-03-02T07:19:04+0900

Knight Editor version 1.4.0 Introduction Knight Editor is an extension of Yanfly's Grid-Free Doodads plugin that is designed for use with mouse point-and-click controls. Yanfly's plugin is very useful for parallax mapping, but sometimes editing maps with keyboard-controlled menus can feel a bit sluggish. That's where this plugin comes in! Installation To use this plugin, you must do the following: Install Yanfly's Grid Free Doodads plugin in your project, as per the plugin instructions. Make sure it works correctly before continuing. Download the Knight Editor plugin files. Copy the KNT_Editor.js plugin into your plugins folder. Copy the gui folder that comes with this plugin into your project's img folder. Copy the pixi-filters.js file that comes with this plugin into your project's /js/libs folder. This should be the same folder that contains your project's other pixi files. Replace your project's index.htmlfile with the one that comes with this plugin. Alternatively, if you'd like to keep your current index.html file, insert the following line inside the tag of your index file, after all other pixi-___.js files: Place this plugin below Yanfly's plugin in your load order and configure the plugin parameters to your liking. Load your project in play-test mode, and press F10 to verify the plugin is working. You can also download a sample project here. Note that I cannot redistribute Yanfly's own plugin under their terms, so the sample project only has a placeholder YEP_GridFreeDoodads.js file. Please get a copy of the plugin from Yanfly's website and replace the one inside the sample project to run it. Features & Usage Instructions Knight Editor retains most of the features you're used to from Yanfly's plugin, while adding a few new details. To place doodads: Press the F10 key to bring up the editor UI Click on a doodad folder at the bottom right of the screen Click on the image of one of the loaded doodads to select it ..and left-click anywhere on the map to place it! It's that simple To unselect a doodad, right-click anywhere on the map There are a number of additional convenience features added to facilitate map editing: Spoiler Doodad Selection If there are more doodads than fit in the visible space in either the Doodad Folder or Doodad Selection windows, you can scroll the contents by using the mouse wheel. The Doodad Edit Panel Click on an already placed doodad to bring up its properties panel and further modify it. You can also edit the properties of new doodads as you're placing them. Positioning You can move an already placed doodad by clicking on it and dragging it to wherever you want. If you need more precise movement, the arrow keys will move them by single pixels. Holding shift while pressing an arrow key moves them more quickly. Selection Highlights The Editor will highlight your currently selected doodad to make it easier to distinguish from other similar doodads placed on the map. However, sometimes the effect can interfere with the doodad's appearance in ways that make it hard to edit or hard to look at. To address this, the editor has several different ways of highlighting your current selection. You can choose which one is used in the plugin parameters. Additional Configuration You can also edit the fonts used by the editor, as well as the sound effects played when you use it by changing the plugin parameters. Feel free to change its appearance to your taste! Personally, I like using 'Arimo' as my editor font Import (Hotkey: I) Press the Import button to import doodads from another map. This can be useful when making several similar-looking maps. If you provide a Map ID that doesn't exist in your project, the Import Doodad window will display the ID number in red. Save (Hotkey: Ctrl + S) Remember to save your changes often! If you forget whether your map has any unsaved edits, you can check the save indicator at the bottom of the screen. There will be an asterisk(*) shown next to the Doodad tab on the toolbar. Minimize (Hotkey: N) Sometimes it can be difficult to place doodads at the edges of the map, and the editor may cover up the place you want to put your doodads on. In those cases, you can use the Minimize button to hide the editor windows and make your entire map visible. Pressing the Minimize button again brings the editor windows back. Undo (Hotkey: Ctrl + Z) Everybody makes mistakes! If you accidentally delete a doodad or simple don't like your latest changes to it, you can reverse them by pressing the Undo button. This can also reverse the effects of the Delete All and Import buttons. Delete All If you want to quickly remove all doodads from the map, you can use the Delete All button. There's no hotkey for this for safety reasons. If you press it by accident anyway, don't forget that you can still use the Undo button to reverse the changes! Region Toggle (Hotkey: R) Toggles showing your map re…

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Kaelan

#81 Jan 23, 2021, 05:28 PM Source

I'd like to, but the Visutella code is all obfuscated and closed-source, so it's hard to write anything compatible with it
Azineum

#82 Jan 24, 2021, 07:32 AM Source

Wow this looks masterfully done my friend.
rockling187

#83 Jan 30, 2021, 01:39 AM Source

thats a shame looks awesome
ephesus

#84 Mar 29, 2021, 05:24 AM Source

You are a hero and your plugin is eleventh tier! I have some requests that would make my world if you were able to take their possibilites into consideration:

Is there any way to allow ZephyrFM's doodad rotation plugin to work with knight editor or implement rotation into your plugin itself?
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/inde...yanfly-doodads-plugin-rotating-doodads.96528/

Can you allow anchor movement past the edges of the doodad? Maybe range from -10 to 10 instead of -1 to 1? I use blizards ultra mouse seven and this allows doodads to be lifted off the ground as well as placed in a way to do certain camera tricks, among ther things.

Allow for fine tuning of the sliders esp size and anchor placement?

And the big one... sub folders... :o
I understand if you don't take this one on and that it's been discussed but it would make my life so much easier.
-I'm fairly poor but may be willing to pay depending on the price.

(Bonus! Not quite a request but would be cool: ability to select, copy and paste multiple doodads at the same time retaining relative placement to each other. Preferably map to map. This would allow for prefab and set pieces to be used throughout the game or mrap)

Thanks in advance either way, I'm so glad this plugin exists!

-K

_TLiaD
ephesus

#85 Mar 29, 2021, 05:27 AM Source

Another thing, I guarantee this plugin was missed by most people. There should be WAY more likes and replies You should give it its own official release post since you never did.
Kaelan

#86 Apr 1, 2021, 08:03 AM Source

I'm a bit busy with work right now, but I'll take a look at it over the weekend. The rotation thing should be pretty easy to do.
DarkSearinox92

#87 Apr 5, 2021, 09:09 PM Source

Hi @Kaelan , i found a bug.

Firstly i added a doodad manually. Then i clicked on it, i selected "adapt grid" and then i tried to move it with drag and drop.

Crash
Kaelan

#88 Apr 6, 2021, 06:12 PM Source
Version 1.4 is out:
- Added Rotation to Doodad properties. It's hotkeyed to Q/E; the old Q/E hotkeys for scaling were changed to Z/X.
- Fixed more compatibility issues with various input plugins, like Yanfly's Keyboard config.
- Added support to modify some of the min/max/step slider values, in case you want values like Anchor, Scale or Grid Lock to go below the default min or above the default max. You can find the new settings in the plugin parameters. You can set them to whatever you want, though I'd recommend not setting the limits below the defaults or you might break your existing doodads.
@DarkSearinox92 I can't reproduce that bug, will need more information. Does it still happen in the new version? Does it still happen on a new project?

For the other stuff...
Probably won't be doing sub-folder support. You should be able to just make more folders on the top level directory.

Multi-select is doable, but it's a good bit of work, so I'll have to come back to it in a later version.
DarkSearinox92

#89 Apr 6, 2021, 08:04 PM Source
Kaelan said:
Version 1.4 is out:

Added Rotation to Doodad properties. It's hotkeyed to Q/E; the old Q/E hotkeys for scaling were changed to Z/X.

Fixed more compatibility issues with various input plugins, like Yanfly's Keyboard config.

Added support to modify some of the min/max/step slider values, in case you want values like Anchor, Scale or Grid Lock to go below the default min or above the default max. You can find the new settings in the plugin parameters. You can set them to whatever you want, though I'd recommend not setting the limits below the defaults or you might break your existing doodads.

@DarkSearinox92 I can't reproduce that bug, will need more information. Does it still happen in the new version? Does it still happen on a new project?

For the other stuff...
Probably won't be doing sub-folder support. You should be able to just make more folders on the top level directory.

Multi-select is doable, but it's a good bit of work, so I'll have to come back to it in a later version.
Amazing update!

P.S. i retried now and it seems that it's working normally .-. well, better in this way.

P.S.S. You haven't changed the version number of the script >.< It's still 1.31
Kaelan

#90 Apr 7, 2021, 03:39 PM Source

I changed it everywhere except the script header :guffaw:. Fixed
ephesus

#91 Apr 10, 2021, 01:55 AM Source
Kaelan said:
Version 1.4 is out:

Added Rotation to Doodad properties. It's hotkeyed to Q/E; the old Q/E hotkeys for scaling were changed to Z/X.

Fixed more compatibility issues with various input plugins, like Yanfly's Keyboard config.

Added support to modify some of the min/max/step slider values, in case you want values like Anchor, Scale or Grid Lock to go below the default min or above the default max. You can find the new settings in the plugin parameters. You can set them to whatever you want, though I'd recommend not setting the limits below the defaults or you might break your existing doodads.

@DarkSearinox92 I can't reproduce that bug, will need more information. Does it still happen in the new version? Does it still happen on a new project?

For the other stuff...
Probably won't be doing sub-folder support. You should be able to just make more folders on the top level directory.

Multi-select is doable, but it's a good bit of work, so I'll have to come back to it in a later version.
Sorry for the late praise and THANK YOU! Been away/ busy... However:

You are my HERO!

Thanks again for the great plugin. Can't wait to show some things. Here's a sneak peak:
TLiaD_
ephesus

#92 Jun 14, 2021, 12:26 PM Source

Hey Kaelan

This is gonna be a big one but don't pay attention to anything you don't feel like. Obviously.

Bugs:
-Undo decreases the X and Y size of Doodad options by .1 each time you undo.
-Smooth button doesn't always turn off/on the effect
-If all image previews have not loaded and folder is switched the editor will not find the remaining pngs and will need reset
-some parameters skip numbers when using slider

Suggested Fixes:
-When placing a doodad with brighten blend mode the effect is brighter than actual effect after placement. (actual representation helps with map making.)
-Often impossible to select placed Doodad without deleting or moving other Doodads that are taking selection priority.
(Fix?: Allow hotkeys for previous or next doodad? A search doodads function or list?)
-Maybe a key for more precise movement/parameter change? (The Increased speed hotkey seems less necessary)
-Allow for parameters to go down to hundredths instead of just tenths (could be a toggle or plugin parameter edit)
-some parameters skip numbers when increasing/decreasing
-Allow for clicking parameter arrows up and down for single increments
-allow for increase to anchor positions (and more precision PLEASE)
-Base snapping to grid on game/editor positioning. Like 480x 480y will be at corner of 10th and 10th tile (well 479 by 479. wtf rpg maker). 24 snap will always be half tile. (seems arbitrary and sometimes changes sporadically when moving or doodad to doodad.)
-delete confirmation toggle? or even doodad lock toggle?
-Automatic jitter settings? (separate options for color tones, size and rotation? jitter intensity sliders) (This one especially is not a super serious request)
-Brightness/contrast? hue shift?
-manual input of x y location for placement

You are amazing and I'm sorry if this comes off as anything else but LOVE for the product!

Question: would it be/is it possible to switch between main doodad folder in single project without screwing up already placed doodads or anything else? Having separate doodad folders for different maps?

THANKS friend! For your time, effort and amazing plugin!
Restart

#93 Jun 14, 2021, 10:03 PM Source

I tried the demo project in MV 1.6.1, and I'm getting 'NaN' values for anchor, scale, and grid lock.

Any idea why this is happening?

(also the bat random encounter crashes because it's missing bat.png)

EDIT: ah, okay, so I have to disable ultra mode seven if I want those features to work

double EDIT: Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to fossilize this, since Knight.EditorHTMLTextInput looks for the now non-existant uppercanvas, and I don't think I can easily inject new code into the class. Maybe I just don't understand those well enough.

@Kaelan, any chance you'd be willing to take a poke at making this work using the original doodads plugin with fossil?
Kaelan

#94 Jun 15, 2021, 08:00 PM Source

I'll look at some of those requests this weekend

Currently don't have plans to support MZ, it would require a rebuild of a lot of things, and the Yanfly plugin itself changed and is closed source, so it would be more work than I have time for right now. Maybe in the future
Restart

#95 Jun 15, 2021, 08:03 PM Source

Kaelan said:
I'll look at some of those requests this weekend

Currently don't have plans to support MZ, it would require a rebuild of a lot of things, and the Yanfly plugin itself changed and is closed source, so it would be more work than I have time for right now. Maybe in the future
That's absolutely fair.
Trihan

#96 Jun 15, 2021, 08:30 PM Source

VisuStella released their own port of Yanfly's Doodads for MZ.
Restart

#97 Jun 15, 2021, 08:34 PM Source

Trihan said:
VisuStella released their own port of Yanfly's Doodads for MZ.
which as kaelan said at the top of this page, is obfuscated and thus extremely difficult to make any extensions for

Knight editor is a real upgrade to MV doodads, so I was hoping I could the knight editor to work in MZ as well, since I already have YEP doodads working with fossil. Sadly I don't understand classes enough to really do that.
Trihan

#98 Jun 15, 2021, 08:36 PM Source

Restart said:
which as kaelan said at the top of this page, is obfuscated and thus extremely difficult to make any extensions for

Knight editor is a real upgrade to MV doodads, so I was hoping I could the knight editor to work in MZ as well, since I already have YEP doodads working with fossil. Sadly I don't understand classes enough to really do that.
I believe hudell's cyclone editor is compatible but I haven't checked the interplay between them all going simultaneously yet.
Restart

#99 Jun 15, 2021, 09:29 PM Source

Anyway looks like I actually *can* get it to work, I just need to quickly switch the gameCanvas id to UpperCanvas during the exact moments the plugin is looking for it

I'll see if I can get the UI as good on MZ as it is on MV. This is a great tool so I hope more people will be able to use it :)

EDIT:
seems to be working, I'll push it to github
ephesus

#100 Jun 16, 2021, 05:25 AM Source

Kaelan said:
I'll look at some of those requests this weekend

Currently don't have plans to support MZ, it would require a rebuild of a lot of things, and the Yanfly plugin itself changed and is closed source, so it would be more work than I have time for right now. Maybe in the future
A couple more I forgot to mention:

Question#1: This would be huge,
A: Allowing choosing coordinates of where to place doodads when importing from another map. Like, choosing imported doodads origin as 48x, 240y instead of defaulting at 0x, 0y.
B: when importing doodads from another map: option to not clear current doodads or require manually clearing of map instead of automatically doing so.
(Both A and B would need to be implemented in tandem for most useful effect.) (I know importing doodads as is, is super simple and allowing for these changes is a lot less simple. But if actually possible would allow for prefab creation and boost the raw creative power of doodad editing by a factor of one million give or take.)

Question #2: Would it even be possible to change the Z coordinate of a doodad's anchor? There's a few behaviors that could be taken advantage of when using Ultra Mode 7 (the most obvious would be always having a doodad appear in front of another no matter the angle viewed from. Not just appearing in front by layer order but appear between you and the anchor, in space, from any angle.)

Thanks!