PekaED - A modern Pekka Kana 2 level editor

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PekaED - A modern Pekka Kana 2 level editor

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What is PekaED?

PekaED (Pekka Kana EDitor) is a modern level editor for Pekka Kana 2.


Features include:

• Testing your level directly from PekaED!
• Managing your episode in the editor
• Zooming in and out
• Modern features like MP3/OGG support (with the correct version of the game)
• Loading the last episode you've worked on, to pick right back up where you left off
• Partially transparent layers, see the background layer when you're working on the foreground
• Easy placement of the level on the overworld map (Or like this, if you imported/created your episode in PekaED!)
• Support for a custom MAP.bmp, you can see how the map will look like in game, in the editor. While placing your level!
• A manual that documents and explains EVERY feature that's in PekaED
• Export your episode directly from PekaED
• And many more...

Screenshot:

SPOILER: Click to show

What's the difference between PekaED and the official level editor?

PekaED runs perfectly fine on modern operating systems, has no limits for custom content (you can have as many custom tilesets, backgrounds, music files, etc. as you like!) and a bunch of features that make creating levels with it a whole lot more convenient than the original editor.

PekaED has been developed with the Pekka Kana 2 community!
The community has helped A LOT during the development. This editor has features that were specifically requested by the community. A community that has a lot of years of experience creating levels, for Pekka Kana 2.

Special thanks to the people on the Discord server, for their testing and bug reporting. I wouldn't have been able to test PekaED as well as you guys did!



Which operating systems does PekaED run on?
It runs on anything that runs Java.
At this point in time, Windows (7/8/10) is the only operating system that is supported "officially". You can run it on Linux and MacOS, but the experience may not be as good as on Windows and you could possibly encounter problems. PekaED has only been tested on Windows. A Linux version MAY be released officially at some point in the future, but no guarantees.

PekaED is not that demanding of a program and should run fine on pretty much any hardware, that is like younger than 10 years. I can't test this, though. So, I encourage you to test it out, if you run older hardware. It should run fine.



How you can help
First of all, PekaED is open source!
github.com/Detea/PekaED

The code isn't pretty, but it gets the job done.


Creating software like this is a pretty complex task and eventhough PekaED has been thoroughly tested for bugs there probably are still some in there. If you've found a bug, please report it here:
github.com/Detea/PekaED/issues


Of course PekaED also has a manual, that is written in english by a non-native speaker. So of course there are going to be grammar mistakes and maybe even spelling mistakes. If you've found something like that you can report it here:
github.com/Detea/detea.github.io/issues


If you know english and one or more languages, you can translate the manual!
Here are the instructions on how to do that.



How does X work and how do I do Y?
If you have any questions about a specific PekaED feature, or just want to know about every feature PekaED has to offer, please take a look at the manual.
The manual also lists all of PekaED's keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts make creating levels even faster!

If you have a question the manual doesn't answer, post your question in this thread or join the Piste Gamez Discord and @ me directly (deta ).

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Download the latest version

Make sure that you have the latest Java version installed. You can get it right here.
Java version 1.7.0 is, at this point in time, the minimum required version.

[lordxernom]

I cannot run this, because of this error:



But I really like the new interface of level editor, that you've shown. It's easier to select options and navigate overall. I have only one question - if I have a lot of sprites in folder, level editor will show all of them or it will not display some of them like original Janne's level editor did?

[deta]

Which version of Java do you have installed? It requires atleast version 7. It should work on the newest version.

No, it doesn't matter how many sprites/backgrounds/tilesets/whatever you have. They will all be shown, there is no limit.

[lordxernom]

I have version 7 Update 67 of Java. That's great that there's no limit, now I need this feature in editor, because I have too much sprites and I wanna use some of them.

[deta]

Here is the Jar file, www.dropbox.com/s/2zkzx1snfk6012g/pekaed.zip?dl=0.

If that doesn't work i'd suggest you install the newest version of Java: java.com/en/download/

[lordxernom]

Now it works. It seems this doesn't support Java 7. Thank you for help.

[xyard]

Does this support custom content?

[deta]

Yes, you can use custom sprites, tilesets, music, and backgrounds.
The only limitation is the length of the filename, it can only be a maximum of 12 or 13 (not sure right now) characters. That's a limitation of the game, so the level editor automatically enforces it by only showing files that have the correct length.

This editor is only limited by the game itself (filename length, level size, tileset size), the amount of sprites, backgrounds, levels, whatever you have doesn't matter, they will all be shown in the editor.

[xyard]

Hmm. What does RavMahov think about this?

[Rajdh]

Ok, feedback needed, so here it is:
- Minimap needed.
- There is more icons available if you draw more, up to 22 if I remember correctly. Needed option "icon#14" "icon#15" and so on. To make it work with custom pk2stuff.
- Copying tool needed, at least the same as in original editor.
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The whole editor looks very promising, it really annoys me that the official editor cannot see all the sprites in sprite folder.

[deta]

Thank you for the feedback!

I'll look into adding a minimap.
Do you mean the icon of the map? I'll add that in the next version.
I'm currently working on a copy feature, it'll be available in the next version.

[Worm]

Nice job! This is really good. Idk if you are already in our discord server(with another nickname), but if you aren't, here is a link to the server so we can see more about this: discord.gg/MGfAQw

[Rajdh]

Yes, Im talking about icons on the map.
Minimap is mostly needed for faster scrolling. The same as it works in original editor.
Also, other thing, coloring sprites dont work yet, so in example, we dont see difference between walking frog and still frog.

[deta]

Ok, I'll add that. The next update is going to take a while, though.
But, I appreciate the feedback. I don't have much experience with the editor, so it really helps.

[xyard]

Well I don't know the necessarity of coloured sprite since the webeditor lacks the same thing and works fine but of course if it's not too much to add then it's fine.