hi Will, yes i am beginning to plan on writing my editor myself, actually it is not a massive amount of work i probably can get something together in a week, but its actually getting a week spare, as for writing a converter and so on it would be more bother than it is worth, the game is going to be i guess yes like neverwinter nights but topdown, 3d because of leaning as running which will give the 3d feel to it, sandbox like gameplay, mission generator for continuous gameplay, i will probably however add a non-linear story also.....

since i have my engine already written probably it is best for me to write the editor anyways since its just a case of loading and placement of layers and then outputting the layers as a single layer/map file. if i start with it maybe i will post some screeners

-Colin