Create support tools

[fallahn]

The repository contains two tools: a sprite animation editor and particle editor. These are used to preview and create the data files used by xygine's AnimatedSprite component and ParticleSystem component. It would be nice to replace these as, not only are they written using winforms - making them not particularly cross platform - they are missing features and could potentially be both part of the same software. With the addition of imgui to xygine I propose creating a single, cross platform application built on xygine itself which would also mean previews would be rendered accurately. This could also then be extended to provide support for materials used by the MeshRenderer, as well as a model viewer for previewing meshes to be used in xygine based games. As the mesh renderer has been dropped in the newest revision of xygine the current plan is for tools to target particle systems and sprite animations, using the new ConfigFile format. Potetially I'd like to create a scene graph editor too.

[JonnyPtn]

I've started work on an editor. Feel free to assign this to me, and add any issues/feedback/requests on this issue or the editor repo

[zerodarkzone]

Hi,
is there a current method to create or load spritesheets?
How did you made the ".spt" files in the demo project?
Thanks.

[JonnyPtn]

I'm working on an editor here: https://github.com/JonnyPtn/xygine-editor

It's still very much a work in progress, and I wouldn't suggest trying it if you're easily frustrated, but if you want to poke around and give any feedback feel free. You'll need the spritesheet Pull request changes for it to work too

Alternatively for the time being, you can create .spt files by hand

[JonnyPtn]

update: this is now #78