Keep up the good work, KoBeWi.
Looking forward to seeing further developments.

Out of interest, what kind of games are you working on? Do you have any screenies available?

Thanks :3

I recently made a topic about my old projects: https://www.hedgewars.org/node/6963

As for new games, they are in early stage and no screenshots are available. But one of them is "remake" of Mariovania mentioned in above topic.

EDIT:
Back to HWTE3, seems like Godot doesn't support extracting translateable strings from project (or at least no one I asked was able to tell me how to achieve that), so I created a Ruby (<3) script, which generates .pot files and seems like it's working. So any potential translators will be able to easily translate the editor once it's finished.

@KoBeWi
Me, before: Yay! New HWTE3 :OOOOOOOO SUPA-AWESOME! HWTE3 IS LOVE, KOBEWI IS LIFE! *All CAP mode*
Me, after: Damn, I've just read all the text in the OP, then found out that it's not released yet xD *killed by Ligma*
Also me: Let's reply to KoBeWi about this so he can finish the editor faster, in non-rush-style! *Kawaii, anime-style chuckle*
Me in C-137 dimension: How about PM? Email spam? Or multi-post so he can boost the thing? *evil laugh*
Everyone but me: stfu and just wait for it! Can't you have some patience?! *dank face activated*
Other KoBeWi in the parallel universe: Already finished HTWE3... *insert Lenny Face here*

Me, now: *watching PewDiePie killing memes, while laughing autistically*

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Anyway, good luck KoBeWi!
I hope you can finish it perfectly! Like you always do ^^

So this just happened:

Release time, I guess.

The editor is usable. I mean, you can already change everything, it loads correctly, saves correctly, so you can make themes already. You can grab the binaries here: https://github.com/KoBeWi/Hedgewars-Theme-Editor-3/releases/tag/v0.7beta
(I can add a Mac binary if requested)

List of new stuff compared to previous editor:
-.po translation support. You can use .rb script from repo to generate .pot file (I'll hand out one here on "string freeze")
-theme version support (automatically reads and appends theme versions, see above image)
-auto-save now fires on value change instead of periodically
-music player (for previewing theme music, but also for listening music while making themes)
-indicator if theme has unsaved changes (* in window's title), in case you disable auto-save
-controls for theme variables get disabled when variable is disabled
-more tooltips
-setting for maximizing window on start
-other things I forgot

List of still missing things, most of which are planned for 1.0 or later:
-packing themes into hwp (right now it only creates folders)
-packing custom music with theme
-file watchers to refresh files (images etc.) on change
-warnings if some theme file/setting would cause a crash (would be cool if crashing the game was impossible actually...)
-old theme format support (it won't happen, but you can import old themes into the old editor)
-recreating Hedgewars frontend theme for the editor
-other things I marked as TODO in the code

List of implemented Hedgewars features, not counting ones from previous editor:
-"hidden" flag for themes
-Snow.png
-fallback music

List of yet unimplemented features:
-anchors
-overlays
-rq stuff (is it even needed?)
-sound customization

So that's it and probably even more. I might take another break from development now and in the meantime wait for unevitable bug reports. Since the project is on GitHub, if you have an account, I'd prefer if you filled an issue there. PRs are also welcome probably. You will need Godot 3.1 if you want to help.

Have fun with the editor or something >_>

If only I knew how to build this!

I probably forgot to include a README.

Anyways, you don't need to build anything. Just download the source and run Godot inside the directory (with -e flag if you want to edit). Or just use the binary if you simply want to use the editor.

(obviously unfinished)

So I took some time to work on the editor again (hopefully stable release is coming this year). The Hedgewars-like theme is almost finished.

I also added a Readme with instructions how to run from the source.

Nice.

You seem to be REALLY into themes.

So far, this looks like it just adds a bunch of controls to input the theme settings more easily. Basically just a more convenient way to input numbers and select files.

That's of course nice, but I think not really that big of an improvement over editing text files … I think I don't really feel compelled to use this program, It'll still be easier for me to do things manually.

The most tedious part of creating themes is not actually editing theme.conf itself, but by tweaking the numbers over and over again and restarting the game to check it (also in SD).

What would be REALLY useful would be preview panel, to preview a simplified version of the theme background (with animated flakes, clouds, water), also for SD. Doesn't need to be a 1:1 match, just for the general idea.

I recommend to add a list of features into the README.

Really? Even the land rectangles? With the editor, you can lay them out visually, so you can easily predict how will they behave. It's especially useful for complex objects.

Personally I don't think there's so much to tweak. Running the game takes few seconds, so it's not that much of a bother either.

That's a planned feature actually (I even mentioned it in the first post). Not sure where will it come though, might be after 1.0.

Yeah, it actually started way way earlier back when I was playing Worms. I thought it would be cool to create my own themes and Hedgewars actually made it possible. I'm a bit busy with other things right now, but I still haven't completely given up on making more themes. It's fun.

Oops, right. I forgot about that feature.

I've opened the editor and all sections are grayed out except Main. I can't click into them. Is there something I'm missing?

Hey sorry for late reply, but you need to load a theme first. To do that you need to create a directory in your Themes Hedgewars user directory and add empty theme.cfg. I think I should add a button to create a theme...

Hello. I think this theme editor seems to sometimes add fields in theme.cfg that are pointless because they just copy default values:

- water-animation and sd-water-animation when no water animation is used (in that case, just remove those fields)
- sd-music, fallback-music and fallback-sd-music are added when they are actually just the same as the defaults. sd-music MIGHT be excusable. But especially the fallback fields should NOT be added when they are identical to their non-fallback versions.

It's not really a bug, but a minor annoyance. I think a theme editor should always generate a clean theme.cfg.

Thank you for reading. :P

Besides, the Theme Editor currently crashes on startup anyway, so …

Console log:

ERROR: _load_data: Condition "!f" is true. Returned: ERR_CANT_OPEN
   At: scene/resources/texture.cpp:502.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://.import/CheckboxOn.png-f490af681bbdb34e9322512881bba8fa.stex.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://Images/Icons/CheckboxOn.png.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: poll: Can't load dependency: res://Images/Icons/CheckboxOn.png.
   At: core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:655.
ERROR: load: Failed to load resource 'res://Resources/UITheme.theme'.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:208.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://Resources/UITheme.theme.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: register_scene_types: Error loading custom theme 'res://Resources/UITheme.theme'
   At: scene/register_scene_types.cpp:767.
ERROR: _load_data: Condition "!f" is true. Returned: ERR_CANT_OPEN
   At: scene/resources/texture.cpp:502.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://.import/Play.png-b3dd933e3d42657fd903c91b595b03d5.stex.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://Images/Icons/Play.png.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: poll: res://Tabs/Theme.tscn:6 - Parse Error: [ext_resource] referenced nonexistent resource at: res://Images/Icons/Play.png
   At: scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:440.
ERROR: load: Failed to load resource 'res://Tabs/Theme.tscn'.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:208.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://Tabs/Theme.tscn.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: poll: res://ThemeEditor.tscn:5 - Parse Error: [ext_resource] referenced nonexistent resource at: res://Tabs/Theme.tscn
   At: scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:440.
ERROR: load: Failed to load resource 'res://ThemeEditor.tscn'.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:208.
ERROR: _load: Failed loading resource: res://ThemeEditor.tscn.
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:278.
ERROR: start: Failed loading scene: res://ThemeEditor.tscn
   At: main/main.cpp:1864.
ERROR: ~List: Condition "_first != __null" is true.
   At: ./core/self_list.h:112.
ERROR: ~List: Condition "_first != __null" is true.
   At: ./core/self_list.h:112.
WARNING: cleanup: ObjectDB Instances still exist!
   At: core/object.cpp:2071.
ERROR: clear: Resources Still in use at Exit!
   At: core/resource.cpp:476.

But then, my Godot might be outdated (3.2.1).

Weird, because you need to enable a checkbox to have them saved. Similar with music, it's /none/ by default, which makes the value not saved. I can't reproduce this, unless it happened in an old version or something.

Did you open it in the editor first? You need to open Godot editor, so it imports all images (the editor uses some custom icons), then you can run normally. I should probably mention it in the README.

OK, forget my bug report then. I was wrong about this, it was a misunderstanding.
Thanks.

Yooo so much time has passed. Recently a user reminded me that I was making some theme editor, so I thought it's maybe time for an update. I mean I did randomly push some commits over the years (xd), but now I just uploaded a new official build.

There are tons of improvements since the last official version, like new Hedgewars-like GUI theme, usability stuff, implemented missing features (anchors, overlays, RopeNode.png). The editor is pretty much complete now, it's only missing some minor stuff, cleanups and testing. Legend says that one day I will finish it.

Thank you! This looks awesome. Haven’t played Hedgewars in awhile, but this’ll be great

I just pushed a new release.

- Enabled "low processor mode". It's a Godot feature that greatly decreases CPU usage in non-game apps
- Fixed a bug where object count wouldn't sometimes display 1
- Added object and spray counters in Objects tab
- Added error message when object count is greater than 32 (it causes game crash)

The first change is especially important, because the editor was previously running like a game. Your CPU will thank you if you update