TuDee

TuDee is a tile-based map editor which can be downloaded for free.

Download Link:

TuDee (tilemap editor)

Please note: TuDee is no longer in development.

Features

Features include:

  • Tile sets
  • Maps
  • Layers
  • Entities (e.g. sprites, power-ups, triggers)
  • Paths (linear and Bezier curves)
  • Mosaics (groups of tiles)
  • Custom variables (for tile sets, maps, layers, entities and paths)
  • DLL-based exporter (you can write your own exporter, see the example exporter project included with the install)
  • Flexible XML exporter (select data to export)
  • A module for loading and drawing a TDX map in Monkey
  • Flexible binary exporter (select data to export)
  • Binary Map importer
  • Project files are binary or XML
  • A software and an OpenGL version

Screen shots

TuDee 01
TuDee.

Numbers or collision can be given to each grid block.

The following screen shots use images created by Daniel Cook https://lostgarden.home.blog/

A cute world.

The grid.

Some paths and triggers.

Monkey and Diddy

TuDee has a module for loading and drawing a map in Monkey.

The module, tudeetdx requires the Diddy module. It loads a TDX (TuDee XML) file which is exported from TuDee with the TDX exporter.

It can load a TDX file which contains a single map or multiple maps.

The module and an example of how to use it, are installed in the folder “Examples\Tdx\Monkey”.