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Xiyoubu - Mega Drive Modness
January 11, 2023 by David Oberlin#Hardware, #Mega Drive Mod, #Genesis Mod, #Xiyoubu
Apart from pondering over the minutae of BlastEd I am active doing other things; Xiyoubu is a new hardware mod for the Mega Drive/Genesis that targets the MH-ATtiny88 series of breakout boards. It was... Continue reading
Coming soon...
December 02, 2022 by David Oberlin
Work slowed down on the production of BlastEd. It's still in development. But, there's no necessity for it or what it offers so I've cooled down on it. I'll hopefully find more time to work on it over... Continue reading
Much Ado About Nullptr
November 14, 2022 by David Oberlin
The way BlastEd originally displayed selected tiles was, I felt, a waste of cycles. What would happen was this: for every mouse movement a vector would be initialized, created and populated with the i... Continue reading
Engineering, The Flow
November 06, 2022 by David Oberlin
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#update
While development is slow the internal build is getting there. I wasn't happy with the presentation of the available editor states and the corresponding buttons on the tilemap window. It's not very cl... Continue reading
Getting On With It With David Oberlin
October 14, 2022 by David Oberlin
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#update
Update: Resizing is working to scale. Tile selection is now using transparency. Tileset Importer is now a class instead of a big, big function. Tilemaps are now composed of same tile class as tilesets... Continue reading
Let Me Start Over, Again
September 27, 2022 by David Oberlin#Update
After several more test builds with alternate takes on the GUI. I have come to a milestone in what I believe the app should look and function like. Also, mistakes were made and I want to write more lu... Continue reading
Slow, but steady.
September 21, 2022 by David Oberlin#update
Moving on It Is Still Going Strong I admit that progress is slow. Which is ironic since most of the code is written it just needs to be [re:]implemented. However, there are methods and practices that... Continue reading
Of A Sizeable Improvement
September 12, 2022 by David Oberlin#report, #update
Thank you for your continued interest, or new, piqued interest. Resizing is finally, finally (half) implemented. There was a one pixel offset that was causing a logical error where the API's own resiz... Continue reading
How to choose
September 06, 2022 by David Oberlin#update
An important factor of a tile editor is choosing what tiles you want to set. In previous iterations this was done by highlighting a border box, or adjusting the tiles' dimensions. The former, while fi... Continue reading
Scope, scales and sizes.
August 24, 2022 by David Oberlin#Updates, #Reports
One of the biggest failures I've had with this program being like a real program is resizing. With monitors that can exceed the Mega Drives' mighty 320x480 (PAL here) by about 12x. I feel it was a dis... Continue reading
New Design
August 15, 2022 by David Oberlin
Hi-- Hello there, Thanks for (successively) checking out B!astEd. In Part: The Good News The new build available is nowhere near feature complete. And, it might be of more value to the creation of Til... Continue reading
Remake
August 12, 2022 by David Oberlin#update
BlastEd has been reworked. With the most important thing being that the UI is now more-- less. Resizing is still an issue. I'm considering holding back the next build until it's prettified. Then again... Continue reading
Update: 6th August 2022
August 06, 2022 by David Oberlin#changelog, #update
This is the final version of B!astEd with the current design. Work has begun with a new more intuitive layout. Changelog: Changed UI handling of tilesets... Continue reading
A Fixer-Upper
August 02, 2022 by David Oberlin
I have sorted out a few of the groans from the tileset viewer however I've started rebuilding the (frontend of the) app from the ground up. So, the next release will be the last version with that clun... Continue reading
UI
July 31, 2022 by David Oberlin#reports
Most things, as in resizing and responsiveness, are coming on. Responsiveness is done tbh, but I must admit I'm not happy with the presentation of tilesets: the co-ordinates go haywire on some actions... Continue reading
Update: 29th July 2022
July 29, 2022 by David Oberlin
Changelog: Image no longer crashing when changing transparency value on import. Resizing implemented for most widgets. Transparency value is swapped in both image and palette for image/tileset... Continue reading
Update: 27th July 2022
July 27, 2022 by David Oberlin#update, #changelog
Changelog 0.1.45: Fixed redo bug-- program would try and access a non-value. Cut, Copy & Paste have all been implemented. Consolidated tiles into one type. Various backend stuff. Current Known Issues:... Continue reading
X,C & V
July 25, 2022 by David Oberlin#report
Cut, copy and paste is partially implemented for tilemaps and will be included in the next release. From there I think it would be good to consolidate and rework the already implemented features that... Continue reading
Update: 23rd July 2022
July 23, 2022 by David Oberlin
Changelog: Palette Manager has been revamped. Import Tileset and transparency selector windows have been simplified. General housekeeping... Continue reading
Aesthetics
July 21, 2022 by David Oberlin#updates
The Palette Manager has been rejiggled to look better, and the Import Image As Tileset window is being revamped. Resizing is proving to be a bit more painful, but that was anticipated. Other issues ar... Continue reading
Update: 19th July 2022
July 19, 2022 by David Oberlin#update
Changelog: Saving items inside the content browser is now decided by the currently selected item. Rejiggle on the Tilemaps' export to PNG function. Foundation work started on resizing the app window... Continue reading
Non-Uniform Scaling.
July 17, 2022 by David Oberlin#reports
Ok, Zoomer Non-uniform scaling as been a point of contention for my last few posts. The root of the problem lies in truncating co-ordinates when translating them from decimal values to whole numbers,... Continue reading
Testing
July 15, 2022 by David Oberlin#reports
I looked into scaling and the issue lies in using two different methods to scale two different components and there's an issue converting floating point vectors to integers. Techy-stuff, I'm going to... Continue reading
Update: 13th July 2022
July 13, 2022 by David Oberlin#updates, #changelog, #release
Changelog: Export tilemap to PNG reimplemented. Hold CTRL for Queen-line drawing (Windows seems to have an issue with dragging while CTRL key is repeated, not sure if this is a me thing or something e... Continue reading
Re:done
July 11, 2022 by David Oberlin#reports
Tilemaps can now, again, be exported to PNG. I had to remove it from the last build as the rewrite broke the translation. The next build will restore the functionality of the 0.0.48 build completely... Continue reading
VRAM & Tilesets
July 09, 2022 by David Oberlin
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I realise from the last build that non-integer scaling is a lot more complex than I had expected. I'd like to keep this program as simple as possible. In fact, I'd prefer to use integer-float scaling... Continue reading
Update: 7th July 2022
July 07, 2022 by David Oberlin#updates, #changes, #changelog
With such a big rewrite I have decided to bump the version to 0.1. Changelog: 0.1.0 Updates: Reworked the way tilemaps are handled. Implemented history (undo/redo) facility. Reworked the way brush and... Continue reading
Next state
July 05, 2022 by David Oberlin
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The back end code for handling tilemaps has successfully been reworked and work has begun on the undo/redo functionality. This comes with some feature creep. But, the design is easier to work with now... Continue reading
Making Progress
July 03, 2022 by David Oberlin
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While the next build is not quite ready for public release it's coming on strong. With tilemaps, their corresponding workspace and the way the program handles tiles and images all being rewritten. At... Continue reading
Rewrite, rescale & a report on those things.
July 01, 2022 by David Oberlin#Reports
The current job is rewriting the motif tool. This is to accommodate for copy & pasting sections of the map as well as dynamic patterns to decorate the map. Proper scaling has also been implemented and... Continue reading
Now, with Windows.
June 29, 2022 by David Oberlin#updates
Windows binaries are now available with Arm builds being considered in the near future. If there's any real interest in an Arm build (for RaspberryPi's and other SBC's) let me know, by way of comments... Continue reading
Update: 27th June 2022
June 27, 2022 by David Oberlin
Changelog: 0.0.48 Integrated GUI images. Zoom function added to Tilesets panel. Removed buttons on both panels (Tilesets/Palettes.) Rearranged Colour Wheel. Marked non-functioning menu options as inac... Continue reading
Update: 25th June 2022
June 25, 2022 by David Oberlin#patches, #fixes, #updates
One fix and a feature. 0.0.3 Added Export function for Tilesets. 0.0.2 Fixed logical error when importing images as Tilesets... Continue reading