Server Help

Zephyer · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: Need help with LVZ

I need alot of help :/
1.To make a sound a gun noise...
2.To make a backround....

And if you post, try to put it in a step format, I'm sorta dumb

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Asv> i have a big gun
Asv> its an automatic +.-
BIG-GUNZ> in ur pants?
Asv> yah
Asv> lol
BIG-GUNZ> i have the power ball in my pants

Zephyer · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Eh, didnt see the LVZ section :/

Katie · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject:

You need help MAKING the files? OR do you need help MAKING the lvz?

Katie

Zephyer · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:02 am Post subject:

Making the .LVZ, I just need to know how to turn PNG's and a Winamp file into a .LVZ file.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

listen to the .wav files in Continuum\sound (you may want to make copies and rename their extensions to .wav) - find the one you want to replace, write down its filename

you need to make whatever sound file you want to use a .wav file with _that_ filename

your background image should not have any pixels darker than rgb(10,10,10) - anything darker than that is transparent in 8-bit color depth

download lvztoolkit
extract it to wherever you like

download tiledmajick
extract it to wherever you like

run TiledMajick.exe, input the width and height (in pixels) of the image you have chosen for your background, then click the "DO IT" button

open output.txt (created by tiledmajick)

ABOVE all the existing text in output.txt, ADD the following:

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outfile=nameOfYourChoice.lvz

file=yourGunSoundWithAppropriateFileName.wav
file=yourBackgroundImage.png

[objectimages]
image0=yourBackgroundImage.png

[mapobjects]

save this file as nameOfYourChoice.ini

make sure your .wav, .png and new .ini files are in the _same_ directory

run BuildLevel.exe (from lvztoolkit.zip)
when the box opens to find a file, find and select your .ini file

this should create a .lvz file (named as specified in the outfile=name.lvz line) in the same directory as the .ini, .wav and .png file

that's it

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if you have sysop access and need to know how to get the .lvz working in your zone...

put your whatever.lvz file into your main Continuum directory (eg. C:\Program Files\Continuum)

go into your zone - to the arena you want the .lvz to be used in
type *putfile whatever.lvz and then ?set misc:levelfiles=whatever.lvz

now re-enter the arena and you will download and be able to experience the new .lvz's stuff (may be a short delay before you can download, just wait or keep re-entering until it works - if it hasn't worked after a minute, it won't, you've done something wrong)