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• • NEW Undo/redo with CTRL+Z / CTRL+Y - up to 5 steps!
  
  • Tilewheel: select tiles with mousewheel more easily
  • Hotkey for testing mode: F5
  • Switch between tiles & entites: Q key
  • Stay in testing mode after dying (get the modded levelscreen.lua!)
  • Easily assign hotkeys to tiles and entities: press number key while mouse is over the selected tile in the menu
  • Select the whole map with CTRL + A
  • Move selected tiles by clicking on the selection with left mouse button
  • Select multiple tiles by holding CTRL and clicking with the left mouse button
  • Delete selected tiles with delete/backspace keys
  • Copy and paste selected tiles by clicking on the selection with right mouse button
  • Cut, copy, paste selected tiles: CTRL+X / CTRL+C / CTRL+V
  • Save selected tile region for later use: CTRL + S. You can then select it from the level editor menu > tiles > objects. The data is saved to objects.txt in the mappack folder. To change object names, you have to edit the file directly. Objects.txt file can be shared along with tilesets to get predefined multitile objects ready for use in Better Level Editor.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for your objects: hold CTRL and press the number keys.
  • Set paste mode dropdown to opaque to make empty tiles "overwrite" other tiles when pasting.
  • Change brush size with shift + mouse wheel and change brush width/height individually with shift + arrow keys
  • Scroll the map with ctrl + mouse wheel
  • Replace all X tiles with Y tile by holding E + left click

pbalazs wrote:- scroll the map with ctrl + mouse wheel

Maurice wrote:

pbalazs wrote:- scroll the map with ctrl + mouse wheel

You can use left and right arrow keys for that, too.

pbalazs wrote:I started to use the level editor and thought it was missing some features.
By replacing the original editor.lua file with the modded one you can:

- change "brush size" with shift + mouse wheel and change brush width/height individually with shift + arrow keys
- scroll the map with ctrl + mouse wheel
+ PROTIP :D Looking at the code I realized that you can "clone tile" by clicking on it with middle mouse button. Maybe it's a known feature, but I didn't know about it.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5831485/m/editor.lua

Any ideas to make it better?

Mari0Lu1g1 wrote: What if you have a laptop? :I

FaycalMenouar wrote:what annoys the most in the level editor is that when you want to edit the castle you have to pick tile by tiles and it takes too much time . so maybe if you can take the hole castle and just put it in the level ? this also mids pipes and other "multi tiles" objects

FaycalMenouar wrote:what annoys the most in the level editor is that when you want to edit the castle you have to pick tile by tiles and it takes too much time . so maybe if you can take the hole castle and just put it in the level ? this also mids pipes and other "multi tiles" objects

pbalazs wrote:Tile selection:

FaycalMenouar wrote:what about that multi tileselection thing ?

pbalazs wrote:

FaycalMenouar wrote:is there any way to do that from the custom tiles selection and not from elements that are already installed ?

pbalazs wrote:Mod in action:

FaycalMenouar wrote:WTF ? ; how do you get that objects list ? it's empty , do i have to make it ? how ?

pbalazs wrote:• Save selected tile region for later use: CTRL + S. You can then select it from the level editor menu > tiles > objects. The data is saved to objects.txt in the mappack folder. To change object names, you have to edit the file directly. Objects.txt file can be shared along with tilesets to get predefined multitile objects ready for use in Better Level Editor.

Superjustinbros wrote:I hope this enhanced editor makes it into Special Edition.

jmv3597 wrote:May i ask, if you build a level in this, is it completely compatible with an unmodded version of the game?

pbalazs wrote:Of course it'll be fully compatible. I just change the way you build the level, not the level itself.

LightningFire wrote:What about if you can select the 'objects' by mapping them into letters and numbers. Example: 1=Castle, 2=Building, etc.

pbalazs wrote:Any more ideas? :D

How about configurable shortcuts for single tiles? What do you think, would it be useful? You could assign the 1-9 number keys without CTRL to quickly select the most used tiles. But maybe it's not worth working on it, I don't really know, I'm not a big map creator.

mari0bros2 wrote:Maybe add a "clear level" button(with a warning sign)?

pbalazs wrote:

mari0bros2 wrote:Maybe add a "clear level" button(with a warning sign)?

I already added CTRL + A = select all. Then you can hit delete and done.
With this feature you can easily move or copy the whole map to another level too.
It'll be in the next release.