Arpiyi, as well as Aryibi, are no longer in active development,
however, I might return to it at any point in time if
enough people are interested in it or I get inspired. Currently, the master branch is the most stable
one, unstable is kind of usable with a lot of newer features, and new_tile_system is in a very
heavy WIP. I was planning to merge new_tile_system into unstable and unstable into master,
but the amount of work needed to change everything is brutal. I made some really poor decisions while
starting the project (i.e. merging editor logic with GUI & layout or not thinking the map/sprite types properly),
leading into heavy tech debt down the line.
However, I've learned a lot with this project. Thanks to arpiyi, I learnt how to structure large projects, how to use CMake properly, how to deal with dependencies correctly, how to use codegen in C++, basic renderer technologies, many C++ features and quirks and much, much more. It's still one of my favorite and largest projects.
Arpiyi is an open-sourced 2D RPG editor designed to be modular and extensible. Its objective is to be a more advanced alternative to other competing software, with features such as a cutscene editor.
It is still on early development and lacks lots of features, but the project is updated regularly with new elements.
Arpiyi can:
- Load tilesets from images from various formats (Including PNG, JPEG, TGA, BMP...)
- Create maps for placing tiles
- Maps don't have a fixed number or layer nor a layer limit: This means that you can reuse more tileset assets without having to redraw some of them for, for example, stacking them up
- Layers can be also hidden, useful for working on one layer at a time
- Save & load projects
Arpiyi has:
- Autotiling
- Supports RPGMaker VX/VX Ace/MV A2 textures
- Automatically creates a texture with all possible corner & side combinations from a simpler image
- A Lua script editor
- With a built-in syntax error checker
- Cutscene editor
A GPU with OpenGL 4.5 support. To check if your GPU is compatible, run the arpiyi executable. You'll get an error if it isn't.
If your GPU does not have OpenGL 4.5 support, try updating your drivers.
IMPORTANT: Clone to a path that doesn't have any spaces in it. Codegen has not been tested with spaced paths.
Arpiyi compiles on Windows/Linux (Tested with clang-cl on Windows 10 & clang on Manjaro)
Either build the project directly to the build/ folder or copy the build/editor/data
folder to your executable folder.
Linux requires the Lua 5.3 package for linking the executable. For Windows users, the library
is already included in the lib/ folder, so you don't need to do anything special.
If any compiler errors arise while building, please open a Github issue for them.
For now, the best way to contribute is by testing, building and reporting issues.
If you'd like contribute by programming, here's a list of files that you should never touch because of their extremely bad design and practices: (AKA TODO: clean those up)
- editor/editor_renderer.cpp (This file is probably going to be removed at some point. It contains some lua wrappers + the main docking space of the application + the menu bar of it (The save button).)