FMod - Wizardry

Despite important things like college happening, I have made some progress on Abiathar. The current focus is the New Project Wizard, which will serve two hugely important purposes: improve ease of use and make it easier for me to expand to new formats.

Today, I eliminated the Back button, which was causing huge headaches for me because users could go back and prompt total reorganization of settings, which could totally blow up everything they had set up. I personally think that the occasional use of a Back button in creation wizards does not justify the huge pain that it is to make work properly through all the possible paths.

I also filled in three steps: Template, Level Format, and EGA Layout. All the format/layout steps will not appear unless the user chooses to start from a blank slate.

This is what they look like:

The default view of the Template step

Default view of the Level Format step after selecting "Keen 4" and "inspect advanced settings" in Template

Default view of the EGA Layout step with the aforementioned Template settings

You'll notice a large "From GFXINFOE" button on the EGA Layout step. This allows users to take a TED5 graphics accessor instead of typing in strange numbers. (This is designed for Bio Menace.)

Also, I added a new menu option under View: "Export Image." This allows the user to save a .bmp of the level being viewed in Abiathar, with all the current view settings except offset, zoom, and grid. Things are rendered in the bitmap only if they appear in the level view - there is no code duplication.