After a (very long) wait, we (Skotty and me) finally managed to release the first alpha version of the ALE Editor:


It is still in a very early stage, but feel free to play with it and report bugs. You can see some of the not yet finished stuff in the about window.

A Linux build will follow (already running, needs rpm build).

We appreciate any feedback!

Edit: There was a texture filtering issue which forced me to reupload it.

Edit 2: A usage hint: You have to select all the texture files you can find. They will be added to an internal list and be searched for the texture name. If the particle system does not find it you will get a colored quad. The textures are searched each time you start/restart an effect.

Edit 3: Alpha 2 consist of mostly GUI fixes from Skotty and some small GUI fixes from me.

Edit 4: Alpha 3 are again GUI fixes from Skotty, as I try to finish the OpenGL renderer for FL (I only helped a bit with the scrolling performance fixes).

Changelog Alpha 3 (major work by Skotty):
- Improved performance of Node Properties window scrolling and updating.
- Unify library windows of Emitters, Appearances, Fields and Miscellaneous into one tree overview (Node Library).
- Add filters to every list (Node Library, Effects, Node Linking, Node Transforms).
- Add context menus to Node Library, Effects, Node Linking, Node Transforms.
- Add icons for every context menu entry.
- Add Drag and Drop of Nodes from Library to Node Linking area.
- Add multi selection being possible for Drag and Drop and context menu operations.
- Fixed Time Key slider being clamped between 0 and 1.
- Fixed Time Key slider being resetted on changing effect.
- Fixed possible duplicated Node name generation.
- Fixed docking Node Property windows into Node Properties docking area instead as neighbour of it.

Edit 4 (Alpha 4):
See posts https://the-starport.net/freelancer/fo ... t_id=66288#forumpost66288 and https://the-starport.net/freelancer/fo ... t_id=66292#forumpost66292 below from Skotty for changelog and download.

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what did you do OP? I have the same problem...

np, got it. mousewheel only. the arrows on the Zoom dialogue box do nothing

edit2: manual input on the zoom does nothing either.

certainly looks good so far

Alpha 2 is released, see first post

Sure, I can implement this easily. Will make this toggleable so that you can switch it off if not wanted.

Alpha 3 is out (see first post).
@Alucard: We will try to add your suggestion to alpha 3.1.

Nevermind, I got it. Different question, how do I make a file like the sparks1anim_0_0? I know how to make txm, but not how it reads the sprites inside. How does it read the texture? Left to right and then down and continue correct? How can I make it bigger to read say 30 sprites instead of 15?

I found it fairly simple to work once I got something to actually work. I can write up a user tutorial, if need be. There are somethings that don't work as you have mentioned. But I am learning quite a bit of what it can do and it can do quite a lot.

ALE Editor version Alpha 4 is out now! Find it in the attachement of this post.

New feature:

• Render ordering. ALE effects render particles in a defined order. This can be important when one particle is supposed to hide another. Now you can see and set up this order in the editor, too.


• Also for being orderly you can now close gaps in the automatically generated IDs for effect nodes.

Bugfixes:

• Previously the editor saved the data twice into UTF files. Now it correctly saves it only once. This had no negative side effect except for bigger file size.


• Preserving render order: Previously the ALE Editor changed render order unasked (see feature above). Now it is kept as in the original.


• FLBeamAppearance was missing in the context menu to create it.

Additionally there is now also a Linux executable for those who fancy it. Requires qt5pas lib to be installed.