Moreover, I ventured to start to develop a small widget toolkit for the heightmap tool that might join libtcod if it's useful enough.
On this first screenshot, you can see the UI :
On this second shot, I moved the fbm to the left (see the sea position). The hills didn't move. They're still on the middle. This shot also shows that when the mouse is away from the UI, it becomes transparent to allow you to see the whole map.
On this first screenshot, you can see the UI :
- status bar on the top
- a small stats panel
- the tools panel where you can stack a new operation, change the display mode or export the heightmap
- the parameters panel where you see parameters for the selected operation
- the history panel, showing the stacked operations
On this second shot, I moved the fbm to the left (see the sea position). The hills didn't move. They're still on the middle. This shot also shows that when the mouse is away from the UI, it becomes transparent to allow you to see the whole map.