EDIT: To everyone who's having trouble running these: Please install this from Microsoft (if running a 64-bit OS, you may need to install the x86 version regardless)! If you're still having trouble, please make sure that at least one level is saved in Lunar Magic and then try again! Thank you!
I said this was coming yesterday--sorry! I physically wasn't even at my computer!
This is a collection of three tools that "plug in" right into Lunar Magic's toolbar, meaning that they work almost as if they were built right into Lunar Magic itself!
The first is a background editor for layer 3 (not ordering these in the order of the toolbar above, sorry!). The background won't show up in Lunar Magic itself (because that's beyond the range of what these addons are allowed to do), but it functions very similarly to what a normal window in Lunar Magic would be like--it allows you to build a background for layer 3 for this specific level and save it. If you open up a different level, you'll edit its background. And so on. No need to manually manage background "images" per level and such--this handles it all for you!
(In addition, there's a GIF showing off how to use it and its features here. Warning: the image is 13 MB!)
The second is a visual graphics selector for your ExGFX files. It also gives you the option to name them and assign uses to them, so you can search for specific files.
Finally, a very simple editor for UberASM. Intended mostly for when people say "copy and paste this into uberASM" and you don't really want to muck about in complicated ASM files. Just copy and paste whatever they tell you to into this window!
Download them all here. For the folder that says "Put in LM folder", copy and paste its contents directly into the same folder Lunar Magic is in. "usertoolbar.txt" should be in the same folder as Lunar Magic, and the "Addons" folder should also be in the same folder as Lunar Magic. You don't have to put the stuff in the "put in ROM folder" in your ROM folder if you don't want to, as it's just the Layer 3 Customizer patch and Sprite Status Bar patch, but things will go slightly more smoothly if you use these versions. They automatically contain the logic you'll want to use for "standard" layer 3 backgrounds (like normal or slow scrolling, for example).
Disclaimer: For the Layer 3 Background editor, if you play your level and all the graphics seem garbled, make sure you remembered to insert your graphics before testing it out! This is a super easy step to miss, even through the editor reminds you about it, so be sure to keep it in mind! Also, if the editor is telling you to "do this to your ROM before the editor can be used", make sure you have saved your level before opening the editor! The editor can't read the changes you made in Lunar Magic until they've actually been saved.
Also note that the Layer 3 Background editor uses imamelia's Layer 3 Customizer patch, so any incompatibilities that patch has, if it has any, will also apply to this editor!
Finally, though these should never corrupt your ROM, since they're just patches, if they by some chance do, make use of Lunar Magic's auto backup feature! It's super awesome and super underused!
I said this was coming yesterday--sorry! I physically wasn't even at my computer!
This is a collection of three tools that "plug in" right into Lunar Magic's toolbar, meaning that they work almost as if they were built right into Lunar Magic itself!
The first is a background editor for layer 3 (not ordering these in the order of the toolbar above, sorry!). The background won't show up in Lunar Magic itself (because that's beyond the range of what these addons are allowed to do), but it functions very similarly to what a normal window in Lunar Magic would be like--it allows you to build a background for layer 3 for this specific level and save it. If you open up a different level, you'll edit its background. And so on. No need to manually manage background "images" per level and such--this handles it all for you!
(In addition, there's a GIF showing off how to use it and its features here. Warning: the image is 13 MB!)
The second is a visual graphics selector for your ExGFX files. It also gives you the option to name them and assign uses to them, so you can search for specific files.
Finally, a very simple editor for UberASM. Intended mostly for when people say "copy and paste this into uberASM" and you don't really want to muck about in complicated ASM files. Just copy and paste whatever they tell you to into this window!
Download them all here. For the folder that says "Put in LM folder", copy and paste its contents directly into the same folder Lunar Magic is in. "usertoolbar.txt" should be in the same folder as Lunar Magic, and the "Addons" folder should also be in the same folder as Lunar Magic. You don't have to put the stuff in the "put in ROM folder" in your ROM folder if you don't want to, as it's just the Layer 3 Customizer patch and Sprite Status Bar patch, but things will go slightly more smoothly if you use these versions. They automatically contain the logic you'll want to use for "standard" layer 3 backgrounds (like normal or slow scrolling, for example).
Disclaimer: For the Layer 3 Background editor, if you play your level and all the graphics seem garbled, make sure you remembered to insert your graphics before testing it out! This is a super easy step to miss, even through the editor reminds you about it, so be sure to keep it in mind! Also, if the editor is telling you to "do this to your ROM before the editor can be used", make sure you have saved your level before opening the editor! The editor can't read the changes you made in Lunar Magic until they've actually been saved.
Also note that the Layer 3 Background editor uses imamelia's Layer 3 Customizer patch, so any incompatibilities that patch has, if it has any, will also apply to this editor!
Finally, though these should never corrupt your ROM, since they're just patches, if they by some chance do, make use of Lunar Magic's auto backup feature! It's super awesome and super underused!
I should get a new layout.
Probably won't, though.
Probably won't, though.