Tile scalefactor property

[kralle333]

Made it possible to set a scalefactor on tiles on tilesets. When placing an object on a map, the object will be scaled up/down using this scalefactor. This is useful for sprites that are scaled down to reduce file sizes and scaled up again when the map is loaded in a game.

[bjorn]

This seems like a fast way of causing placed tile objects to be automatically given a larger size than the tile image. Did you consider to create scaled templates of your tile objects instead and placing instances of those?

[kralle333]

Ah I see, I haven't used the template feature before. Having the object given a larger size than the image size is indeed what i want. I see in the documentation that groups of templates can be made, however when I get the newest windows build from itch.io I can not see this feature. I it quite tedious if I have to create a file for each map object, e.g. I might have say 30 tiles in which I would then need to make 30 template files.

[bjorn]

I see in the documentation that groups of templates can be made, however when I get the newest windows build from itch.io I can not see this feature.

The screenshots in the documentation are a little out of date. The templates are grouped by regular file system folders now, which avoids the management of the template group files.

I it quite tedious if I have to create a file for each map object, e.g. I might have say 30 tiles in which I would then need to make 30 template files.

That is indeed tedious, so I can see your change is more usable for your needs. I still feel we're duplicating some functionality here and wonder if there would be a different way to solve the problem of tediousness.

For this particular case, I could imagine to support a scale property for the "Insert Tile" tool, which would mainly be useful if you often use the same scale to place multiple tiles. Shortcuts could be added to scale up/down the current tile and a scale entry widget could be added to the tool bar. However, this does not help if you need a specific fixed scale factor that is different for each tile. Is that the case for you?

[kralle333]

Sounds like it could be useful, but it sounds like it would require a lot of code (There are no properties UI for tools right now). For now the solution is simply to have scaled objects outside the level area that is just copy/pasted.

[bjorn]

Sounds like it could be useful, but it sounds like it would require a lot of code (There are no properties UI for tools right now).

Actually there is a tool-specific tool bar since Tiled 1.1, which is used by some tools to show options or trigger certain actions. So adding a "scale" text entry when using the Insert Tile tool should not be too much trouble.

For now the solution is simply to have scaled objects outside the level area that is just copy/pasted.

Right, objects that are already placed can be copy/pasted or duplicated easily.