ROSE - Return Of Samus Editor

[liamnajor]

ROSE, Return Of Samus Editor, is here! It is written in javascript, and can be accesed via the browser:
https://liamnajor.github.io/ROSE/
or, if you wish to download it:
https://github.com/liamnajor/ROSE

a "How to" is on the way.
How To

I must warn you, the encoder is....finicky.

[OneOf99]

Glad to see this is a thing, as the existing M2 editor is kinda out of date. What do you plan on working on with this next?

[liamnajor]

either Enemy data or the dreaded room editor

[FelixWright]

I don't hack RoS but I am definitely interested in this project due to it being 1) first web based metroid editor 2) on its way to being the first not trash public RoS editor.

Keep us posted!  :yay:

[liamnajor]

will do

[liamnajor]

added byte addresses and fixed a few bugs(THE ENCODER IS PERFECT NOW!), plus a few UI changes, and a full gameboy emulator built-in.

[liamnajor]

I felt like adding more options to the save editor, so I added samus x position, samus y position, screen x position, screen y position, spike damage, lava damage, number of Metroids, on-screen metroid counter, in-game timer, and current music as edit options.

[Steel Sparkle]

Pretty cool creation :3
good work and keep it up!

[liamnajor]

tile editor is usable, but as of now you have to copy-paste the output into a hex editor manually. the plan is to have it work side-by-side with the soon to come map editor.

[liamnajor]

ROSE has officially surpassed M2Edit
[spoiler][/spoiler]
it can edit scroll data, chunk data, and room transitions, although I do not recommend touching the latter, as it WILL crash if you do it wrong, and it is very easy to do wrong

[FelixWright]

[rose] can edit scroll data, chunk data, and room transitions, although I do not recommend touching the latter, as it WILL crash if you do it wrong, and it is very easy to do wrong

So when will you be making a ROSE doc?

[liamnajor]

once I finish the object editor at the absolute earliest

[liamnajor]

You can now change the spawn point of samus, but it doesn't set the proper tileset or collision data yet, so if you use it, stick to the landing area in bank F(for now)

[liamnajor]

Object editing works now, and you can view the object data. I am working on object deletion, and it mostly works as of now, but if you delete any but the last object in the list, the rest are orphaned (and I haven't bound the function to an input yet, which I am not willing to do until I fix the orphaned object issue).

[liamnajor]

I finished up object deleten. The only thing left to do before I begin overhauling the UI and writing the documentation is a room transition script editor.

[liamnajor]

so...many...bugs...
bug crushing is fun, amirite?

[dewhi100]

Crushing bugs, you're doing God's work.

[liamnajor]

Almost complete change of plans from my original vision of the room transition "editor". The idea morphed into a sort of simplified javascript to "m2script" (as I will be calling it from now on) compiler. Might end up being standalone in the off chance integrating it into ROSE turns out to be too much work (I won't know until tonight when I get home from work), and I will document it as thoroughly as possible.

[liamnajor]

Almost complete change of plans from my original vision of the room transition "editor". The idea morphed into a sort of simplified javascript to "m2script" (as I will be calling it from now on) compiler. Might end up being standalone in the off chance integrating it into ROSE turns out to be too much work (I won't know until tonight when I get home from work), and I will document it as thoroughly as possible.

I'm working on making the center grid render a collision based map of each bank for navigation purposes, and the editor itself won't make your eyes bleed now. Lots to be done, and the visual overhaul is just the beginning. Hopefully my motivation doesn't completely die for over a year again...
[spoiler=Overhauled UI][/spoiler]

[liamnajor]

MAJOR improvements have happened since I last posted about it here...where it originated...I updated people on discord and kind of forgot about this thread. Anyway, the improvements:
Further overhauled the UI, and added actual styling and dynamic window elements
Proper graphics loading from the ROM, rather then a pre baked PNG
Backend cleanup
Embedded the gameboy emulator in the actual editor page
ROOM TRANISITONS EDITING (in the most rudimentary possible form, but still)

The center grid is collision based...kind of. I made a per tileset array of pseudo collisions, because, having done so before the actual tilesets loaded from the ROM, had no understanding of how the in ROM collisions worked, and thus avoided them then. I'll get around to it.

[liamnajor]

Large viewports are here, and all that comes with it. Right click to select a screen for object, scroll, and room transition editing. Tile editing works as closely as it can to how it did before. It updates duplicated chunks on mouse up, so be careful about chunk borders. Scroll data is drawn in green, and the selected chunk is highlighted in red.

big image, 16x16 screen view(4096x4096px):[spoiler][/spoiler]

[liamnajor]

Large viewports are here, and all that comes with it. Right click to select a screen for object, scroll, and room transition editing. Tile editing works as closely as it can to how it did before. It updates duplicated chunks on mouse up, so be careful about chunk borders. Scroll data is drawn in green, and the selected chunk is highlighted in red.

big image, 16x16 screen view(4096x4096px):[spoiler][/spoiler]

That broke object placing, and I STILL haven't fixed it...