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Well, we didn't have a full blown editor to place objects and characters, what we had were XML files that described characters positions and whatnot. So I would go into an image editor and open the map, find the pixel coordinates where I wanted to place a character, trigger, or whatever, then go into the XML file and type it in. Clunky, but effective. Luckily all the game content was data driven using XML, text, and other files and not hard-coded in C#, which made things a little easier.
I also made a command-line tool for our collision and pathfinding. It converts a black and white bitmap image that represents collision with red dots representing pathfinding nodes to a more compact format that we use in the game. It also builds the waypoint connections by doing line of sight checks against the collision.
I've definitely wished I had a more graphically oriented tool, but it just wasn't worth the effort to make such a nice tool for this one project.
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Thor - Designer, Programmer, Writer and Musician for Light's End - www.lightsendgame.com
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