Tile Set Organizer

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The tile set organizer can be used to create your own tilesets or change the properties of the tilesets that already in your tileset list. If you do not want to make any tile sets but just want to use the default tile sets, then you don't have to use the tile set organizer.

Tile set list
This list shows you the tile sets that are currently available to JCS. There are four columns which show the name, filename, tile source and mask source for each known tileset. All of the tile sets in this view up to Damn 2 have an entry in the Source Image and Source Mask columns because the source files for those tile sets were present on the user's computer at the moment this snapshot was taken. The rest of the tile sets were found in the Jazz2 directory, but the source files were unknown. If you do not create your own tile sets you won't have any tile sets with source files in your list at all.
If you double-click on the name of one of your own tilesets, it will bring up the Tile set properties dialog where you can change the properties of your tile set.

Add tile set
Press this button if you would like to add one of your own tile sets to the list. Before you do this, you must have drawn the graphics for your tileset and saved it in LBM, BMP, ANM or PCX format with the right palette and dimensions. When you click on this button the Tile set properties dialog will be shown where you can select the properties for your new tile set.

Remove tile set
Press this button to remove some of your own tile sets from the tile set list. If you have created a number of tile sets and decide you want them no more, just select them and press this button. JCS will ask you to confirm the deletion operation and after that they're gone. You can't remove tilesets that are found in your Jazz 2 directory from here because JCS wasn't designed to delete your tileset files (that might be considered a dangerous action for a program). If you delete a tile set from this list, you will only delete the description that JCS holds for this tile set, not the tile set file itself.
If you have created a tile set, built it and then decide to remove it you will still see the tile set in the list but without information about its source image and mask. This is because JCS can still find the built copy of the tile set in in you Jazz2 directory, from which it is able to extract the file- and tile set name of your tile set. If you totally want to remove your tileset, remove the corresponding .j2t file from your Jazz2 directory and remove it from your tile set list.

| Refresh tile set list Press this button to rescan the tile set list. JCS will scan your Jazz2 directory for the tile sets you have installed.

Build selected tile sets
This button can be used to build one or more tile sets. First select one or more tile sets in the tile set list, then press this button to build those tile sets. You can only build tile sets if you have the source files for it; you cannot rebuild the default tilesests that come with Jazz2 because the source animation files are not provided with it. Pressing this button will displays the Tile set build dialog when your tilesets are being built.

Rebuild all tile sets
Press this button to rebuild all of your tile sets. If you have any tile sets, pressing this button will build all of them in a batch. Pressing this button will displays the Tile set build dialog when your tilesets are being built.

| Help button Press this button to display the help you are reading now.
| OK button Press this button to exit the tile set organizer dialog.