How to import/export art from PlaneED?

Hi! (i'm french, so i've a bad english)

I want to change the title screen of Sonic 1. So i want to create the mapping files for SonMapED with PlaneED but i don't know/understand anything about that. 

How can i export the mapping file of the title screen to use in SonMapED?


 

 

The title screen in Sonic 1 and 2 use a different kind of mappings than you think it does, which is incompatible with SonMapED, but compatible with PlaneED. These kinds of mappings are plane mappings, which means that it maps tiles onto the foreground or background plane (there might be another plane that can use this, but I'm not too sure). The ones used in SonMapED are sprite mappings, which map tiles to the sprite plane.

What you can do is use SonMapED to make the tiles and use PlaneED to map them together. When you finish mapping the new title screen, press "F9" to save.

There's another option as well. You can download the Retro Graphics Toolkit, which has a tile editor, sprite mapping editor, plane mapping editor, and other things.

Just note that the tiles are usually Nemesis compressed, and the plane mappings are usually Enigma compressed.

 

Other than PlaneED and Retro Graphics Toolkit, there is also SoniPlane by Green Snake.

 

PlaneED became very obsolete with SoniPlane, and I recommend you follow rika_chou's link.

The thing with PlaneED is that it isn't really meant for for general plane mapping editing, and understanding the tool is a challenge in itself. I wrote a bunch of project files for it, but even that was a nightmare to do.

There were no alternatives back then, but now there are, so yeah, get SoniPlane.

 

Okay, thank you all so much!