A while ago a friend of mine was using some tilesets from the public domain which had some spacing around them. He didn’t want the spacing to be rendered ( and I think it’s wasteful to have all that space anyway so currently I have no plans to add extra margins within the tiles ) but it got me thinking about additional ways to modify tiles…

So I’ve added a new feature that lets you do that very easily. You can add or remove space on any or all sides of a tile, and the same operation will get applied to all other tiles. This is very useful if you want tiles to have height, but set everything up so that they were initially flat, or not as high as you need them. Now, just a couple of clicks and the height will get added.Many times I’ve made tilemaps and wanted to crop, enlarge or rescale all the tiles and didn’t have the tools to do it. Oh, it’s easy to add space to an image, but when you need to do this to every tile it’s a ...

Following on from the relaunch of the website, I’ve now released version 3 of DAME, which includes a whole lot of new features and bug fixes.

The UI has been slightly overhauled and the silver theme is now the default.

You can have project specific exporters and paths in exporters can be relative, allowing for easy migration of projects between multiple users. An advanced xml exporter has been included. A sample project using this, and showcasing many other features will be provided soon.

There is now a feature for adding and editing animations for sprites, and the drawing tool has been improved. It’s now possible to draw shapes on tiles and to spawn new tiles as you’re drawing - a feature that works just as easily with isometric tiles!

Path events have been added allowing you to add custom actions or info at given points along a path.

Finally, you can now zoom out much further than bef...

And so the DAMBOTS website finally gets a facelift!

I’ve separated the various features a lot better and hopefully you’ll find it easier to navigate and find it a lot less straining on the eyes.

I’ll be posting content from my new tumblr from now on as it’s much easier to maintain, and this gives me more time to focus on projects like DAME or to modify the site as needed. Bye-bye Wordpress…

I’ll be adding many new features in the coming days like a forum and commenting.

The DAME wiki is unfortunately gone. It proved to be a huge hassle to maintain after being flooded with spam. But I hope to make the help pages much more… helpful and add various tutorials on here.

So keep an eye open for many good things in the near future…

There are bound to be bugs, so let me know if anything crops up.