Chips Challenge Level Editor, Tech Support

ALL CREDIT FOR PROGRAMING GOES TO ICY001.

The year of 2009. MMIX. 20th anniversary of Chips Challenge. Chips Challenge by Chuck Sommerville has grown immensely in the past years. We have had CCEdit, CCTools, and Chip's Workshop. In honor of the new year, in honor of Chip McCallahn's 20th birthday, in honor of Chuck Sommerville living another year (What is his age, anyways?) Icy001 has created a fourth level editor, complete with tabs, undo, individule layer editing, redo, switch toggles, tabs, replacement of the X and Y functionality, AND and OR tile features, and 32-bit images! Did I mention that it's free?

For an unlimited time, download the wonderful Chips Challenge Level Designer from: http://www.tasksavvy.com/cc/ccld and start designing today!


For technical questions about the program, contact Icy001.

For technical questions about the upload, contact Noivilbo.

Link doesn't work for me... In fact, the whole "tlfc/" folder on tasksavvy.com seems to be gone...

The first is because The folder I put it in was named "CCD," and I linked to "CCLD." I renamed the folder "CCLD."

The second is because I reorganized and haven't fixed all the links that I've put around. Here's the fixed link: http://www.tasksavvy.com/cc/tlfc

Okay, it works now... I added a link to it on my site.

Just out of curiosity, Icy001, did you make this editor from scratch or is it a modification of CCEdit? For one thing, the layout, features, and some of the icons look a lot like the ones in CCEdit; and second, the included DLL is called CCTools.dll...

It's written in C# and .NET and CCEdit is (1) closed-source and (2) written in C++. So I didn't just "decompile" CCEdit and modify it. I actually had to write it "from scratch," BUT... I like the toolbox that CCEdit used, so I just copied its layout.

As for the CCTools.dll, it's very different from the CCEdit's CCTools.dll...and they're not related at all. (Compare them in a binary editor to see.) I made a separate CCTools.dll because it might be useful for other Chip's Challenge programs I make in the future...

If you still don't believe me, I can send you the source code.

Oh, and I stole the icons from Windows Vista

And I didn't find the link on your website...

He probably added it to the source code, but hasn't updated the site yet. He said something like that in a previous post somewhere...

I believe you; I just saw a lot of similiarities so I was just wondering... Sorry!

And you were right Craig - I did change the source code but I must've forgot to upload it... I've uploaded it now though. (The level set pages are the only ones I take a while to get uploaded - other pages I usually try to update and then upload them right away...)

Okay. I knew there was something like that. Oh, and because I reorganized my website, the link to my set on your site is a dud. The new link is: http://www.tasksavvy.com/cc/tlfc/cctlfc1.html

That would be one of the ones that is updated on my computer but not on the website... It should be updated within a few weeks.

(Not sure if I gave this explanation before - the reason the level set pages are only updated every month or so is because when I do updates, I don't actually update the level set pages themselves - I update an Excel spreadsheet that has the info in it. Then every few weeks when I decide to do an update, I take the HTML code that I have Excel generate, sort it according to name/number of levels/last updated/etc. and paste it into each level page. Someday I might make this into a standalone program so I can do more with it - perhaps even create the pages automatically - if I do that, I should be able to get the pages updated on the site much more often.)

That makes sense. You use the program to auto sort, right?