Elysian Shadows

Have you tried Inkscape? It looks like a good vector graphics editor if you don't need animation features.

Ok thanks for for the info. I only though multitexturing would be good because it would avoid z-fighting(because I didn't think using a small z-coordinate would work)

Yes, I also want to use this for being able to walk over the same tile that you can walk under, like a bridge. Oh and my problem with trees was not having an over layer and having to implement each tile as an object with a flag that would override y-sorting and place them on top of all other objects...

I've used multiple layer maps for tile based games(really just walkabout demos with simple command scripting) before using Allegro/SDL/OpenGL. But the way I usualy do it is simply by drawing one layer on top of the other like: int map[2][32][32]; for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) { for (int y = 0; y <...