TileShop Installation and Overview

Installation Requirements

TileShop is a Windows-only WPF application targeting .NET 6. TileShopCLI is a portable .NET 6 application.

.NET 6 Desktop x64 Runtime Download

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TileShop Releases

Build Requirements

TileShop was created using C# and Visual Studio Community with several libraries from the development community that can be obtained via NuGet.

Besides building or publishing within Visual Studio, a build system is available and can be invoked via:

./build.ps1 --configuration Release --tileshopversion 1.0 --tileshopcliversion 1.0

Major Features

Project-based Workflows

• Add Files to browse/edit like typical graphical editors
• Define Scattered Arrangers to reference File graphics and permanently store your arrangements
• Define Palettes to apply to your Scattered Arrangers and view/edit graphics in real colors
• Saves to hand-editable XML files
• TileShopCLI supports toolchain import/export operations for improved workflows with external graphics editors

Scattered Arrangers

• Supports Tiled and Single element layouts
• Supports Indexed and Direct color types
• Allows references to multiple Palettes and Files per Scattered Arranger
• Can be exported and imported to PNG

Palettes

• Apply to Scattered Arrangers to view graphics in real colors
• Save color edits directly to the game

Color Remapping

• Quickly remap an image's colors to other colors within the palette

Supported Graphics

• NES 1bpp, NES 2bpp
• SNES 2bpp, 3bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp, Mode 7
• PSX 4bpp, 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp
• Others: NeoGeo Pocket 2bpp, VirtualBoy 2bpp, Game Gear 4bpp, Genesis 4bpp, GBA 4bpp