Toost

Level viewer for Super Mario Maker 2, based on JiXiaomai's work. Hosted live at https://tgrcode.com/level_viewer/!

Usage

To load a local level file, press Load Level and choose a level. Wait a few seconds and the level will be rendered for you, along with some info. To load a level from a course ID, type your course ID into the textbox and press Download Level. As before, wait a few seconds and the level will be rendered. The rendered levels can be dragged with your mouse. You can also download them with Download Image, export info in JSON with Download JSON, or close the window to free up space with the x in the top left or with Close Level. To render levels without the grid, check Remove Grid and to render objects over pipes check Render Objects Over Pipes. You may also change the size of the image with Image Scale.

How to build

If building for desktop, obtain development files for sdl2, glew, glfw3, zlib, cairo, freetype2, and libcurl, as well as having an up to date GCC and pkg-config. Make sure to include all submodules. Compilation on Windows should use MSYS2, on Mac should use homebrew and on linux should use standard GCC. Type make for a debug build and make BUILD=release for a release build. If building for web, first obtain a working Emscripten build environment and put its binaries on the path, such as emmake, emcc and em++. Next, run ./prepare_web_deps.sh. This only needs to be done once, as it downloads and compiles Cairo to prepare it for the web environment. Once that is done, you can run make PLATFORM=web for a debug build and make PLATFORM=web BUILD=release for a release build. To prepare a zip to distribute, run ./build_release.sh for desktop and ./build_release.sh web for web.

Hosting the web build

As long as all files in bin are in the same directory on your webserver and you are hosting them over https, you can access index.html to see the viewer.

Building in Docker

You can build and run the web interface in a docker container, making it portable, and negating the need to obtain dependencies and set up a development environment.

1. Get Docker
2. Build the docker image

docker build --tag toost .

3. Run the docker container

docker run -p 8080:8080 toost

4. View the app in your browser (http://localhost:8080)

Command line usage

A Super Mario Maker 2 level viewer, based on JiXiaomai's SMM2LevelViewer
Usage:
  TOOST [OPTION...]

  -p, --path arg           Path to level to view
  -c, --code arg           Level code to view
  -o, --overworld arg      Where to put rendered overworld image
  -s, --subworld arg       Where to put rendered subworld image
      --overworldJson arg  Where to put overworld JSON
      --subworldJson arg   Where to put subworld JSON
  -a, --scale arg          Render level at this scale
  -r, --removeGrid         Remove grid from render
  -e, --objectsOverPipes   Render objects over pipes rather than under them
  -d, --debug              Enable debug logging
  -h, --help               Print help menu

• path: The location of the .bcd level file
• code: The level code to download, replaces path
• overworld: If provided, renders the image of the overworld into this location
• subworld: If provided, renders the image of the subworld into this location
• overworldJson: If provided, writes JSON info of the overworld into this location
• subworldJson: If provided, writes JSON info of the subworld into this location
• scale: If provided, scales the outputted images by this amount
• removeGrid: If provided, doesn't render a grid
• objectsOverPipes: If provided, objects are rendered over pipes rather than under them
• debug: Prints debug output to console
• help: Prints the above menu

Credits

• Ji Xiaomai, as the core level renderer is based on his work
• The Spriters Resource for the sprites