Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

This program is somewhat functional, but I’m not sure what use it has. First off it’s not even all that good at displaying tilesets: the window isn’t fixed width, even though the contents are, and for some reason there’s a black margin to the left of the tileset image so you can’t have nothing but the image in the window. Not that you’d want to, since the information displayed at the bottom of the window is actually wider than a tileset. The transparent color, as noted, is black, unlike the traditional purple, and this cannot be modified. It takes longer to load a tileset than JCS does, and displays only the image, not the clipping or transparency masks.

• Function to create (and presumably begin editing) a new level using the selected tileset
• Function to list all levels using that tileset
• Grid view
• Number of repeated tiles
• Number of animated tiles possible using that tileset
• Export to image
• Clipping/transparency mask view
• Palette extraction (and saving as .pal) and importation
• Really any kind of editing capabilities at all
• Any direct exportation functions (but I guess j2ff already does that)
• Function to change version
• 1.10o support
• Palette-sensitive events preview (as in JPS)
• Integrate tileset viewing algorithm into the Windows Explorer Preview Pane instead

However, not a single one of those possibilities is realized, and this program, incredibly, does just what it says on the box: it shows you the image of the tileset. It’s competently written, and the code should be a good base for actual utilities down the line, but right now, this is no more than a proof of concept uploaded to J2O instead of posted to the JCF or left on the uploader’s HD as a stepping stone towards future projects.

P.S. StarLORD: If you’re interested in finding the best utility upload of each day, I have another recent upload to point you towards…