The Flyby Editor was a program "TedTycoon" wrote in Visual Basic .NET in 2007. When people in the Populous community were creating AI scripts for new single player levels, they wanted to be able to create their own flybys (cinematic cut scenes) quickly. The program reads flyby script commands and creates a timeline showing the actions that the camera makes. It can also play the flyby, show you a 2D display of the map, the position/direction of the camera and the current time, as you step through the timeline.

The program was abandoned after realising that there was still a lot of work needed to make it into a fully functional editor. As written, it was more of a previewer than an editor, so it was never released.