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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#101 Jun 16, 2021, 07:06 AM Source
ephesus said:
Hey do you have any plans to RETRO Huddell's Cyclone plugins?
wrong person and thread for that, I'm afraid - check with drakkonis

Anyway, to keep this on topic, one feature that I added in my own project is making animated doodads start from the beginning when they're revealed (after a switch flips or whatever in extended doodads pack). This is useful if you want to use doodads to place small sprite animations on your map.
It's a pretty straightforward change, just alias
Sprite_Doodad.prototype.updateCustomEDP1Z
and add this at the end
Code:
if(this.opacity == 0){this._index=0}
It might be a useful feature to add to knight editor.
DarkSearinox92

#102 Jun 16, 2021, 08:11 AM Source

@Kaelan

Hi friend, i ask to you a little enhancement for improvement/quality of life thing for your plugin.

I've clashed several times with the problem that, if you need to move a doodads pixel by pixel with the lateral panel opened of course, for have all necessaries info, and you are at the right of the screen, you are not able to work properly with informations, because the panel go on your map.

Is it possible add a button that permit to you to move the side bar to right or left, at your convenience, to avoid this problem? or maybe do it automatically if you go to the half right of the screen, or to the half left to the screen maybe...
Kaelan

#103 Jun 17, 2021, 08:03 PM Source

ephesus said:
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.)

If you want a Doodad always in front of another Doodad, that's exactly what the layer order is for

DarkSearinox92 said:
Is it possible add a button that permit to you to move the side bar to right or left, at your convenience, to avoid this problem? or maybe do it automatically if you go to the half right of the screen, or to the half left to the screen maybe...

Click on the minimize button on the toolbar

-When placing a doodad with brighten blend mode the effect is brighter than actual effect after placement. (actual representation helps with map making.)

Change the Doodad Selection Effect setting in the plugin manager to "No Change"

Maybe a key for more precise movement/parameter change? (The Increased speed hotkey seems less necessary)

I don't understand this question. You can already move objects by single pixels. You want more precision than that?

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.)

Grid Lock settings are global, they're not attached to specific doodads. They don't affect any data on the doodad itself, it's purely a UI convenience that adjusts how far the doodad moves when you drag it.

delete confirmation toggle? or even doodad lock toggle?

Undo will bring back items you've deleted by accident. Adding a confirmation dialogue would make editing more cumbersome than necessary

Automatic jitter settings? (separate options for color tones, size and rotation? jitter intensity sliders) (This one especially is not a super serious request)

I don't know what you mean by jitter, but you can already edit size, rotation and color tone and copy those settings across doodads

Brightness/contrast? hue shift?

Color Tones are a replacement for hue shift. I removed it because it's an expensive operation, you don't want dozens of Doodads doing it. There are no properties in sprites to edit brightness or contrast directly, you'd have to use a pixi filter to do it.

I'm doing it right now on the currently selected doodad for the selection effect, but the filter is immediately removed once it's no longer selected, and not saved as part of the map. Permanently attaching filters to doodads could have some pretty major performance issues if you had a lot of them, like hue shifts.
DarkSearinox92

#104 Jul 7, 2021, 09:59 AM Source

Kaelan said:
Click on the minimize button on the toolbar

Yes, but if i minimize the toolbar, x-y details disappear. I don't want to close the toolbar, because if we need to move an object for X-Y pixel, you will never see it...