EasyAslev

I recently received a request for assistance with Abiathar's single-level format (ASLEV). The format is indeed challenging to implement without the assistance of FMod's compression features; it uses 24-bit LZW. The person who contacted me suggested that I also support a simpler format that just has the level dimensions and then the tile data as 16-bit integers.

That sounded pretty reasonable to me, but since I don't currently have time to polish it up enough for inclusion in Abiathar proper, I threw together a .NET binary that is simultaneously an Abiathar extension and a console program.

With a .exe extension, it takes a file name or mask on the command line and converts those files (assumed to be in the aforementioned simple format) to ASLEV.

With a .aex extension, it adds some menu items to Abiathar. One is a level tool that exports the currently-viewed level as a simple single-level file. The other is an item in the Level menu that opens a simple level and adds it to the first empty slot in the current project.

I'll release this little tool after it gets a bit of testing from the inquirer.