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Katie · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:28 pm Post subject: All ships small

To make it so that all ships are small (e.g. they all fit through a 1 tile opening), would you just shrink all the ship .bm2's to like 50% or whatever is needed to make them fit? I mean, you'd just shrink all the files and the system would still pick out the correct coordinates from the shrunken file?

TIA

Katie

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject:

You need to do that with the .bm2, so huge ships don't look like they are going through small spaces, but you also need to do the Radius setting for each ship. Play around with it, 7 should be a nice value for what you need.

Katie · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 6:50 am Post subject:

Yeah, I was thinking either 6 or 7, but I have created a zone before with a small leviathan, with really powerful bombs, so I'm familiar with the radius part, just not with how to resize the .bm2's.

Katie

SOS · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 7:36 am Post subject:

Any half-half-not-even-decent graphics editor can do it. Even MS paint.
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Doggeti · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 10:24 am Post subject:

But the original messures of the graphic must not be changed when you shrink the sprites on it, right

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Dr Brain · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 10:32 am Post subject:

no, they can shrink, continuum divided them properly.
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Helicon · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 4:00 pm Post subject:

just shrink the whole thing proportionately and it will look fine. Remember it samples by dividing the bm2 evenly... so just use 50% 50% or something like that... yeah MS paint does that now (i have the XP version)
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Katie · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject:

Yeah. Even Mspaint for ME does it. Just use the sketch/skew option. Select the whole bm2(ctrl+a), go to sketch/skew, and set both horizontal and vertical to 50%(never knew this myself, just found it a moment ago, after downloading and installing Adobe 7.0)!!!

So I could just do this to all the ship.bm2's and roll.bm2's, then just upload them in the settings, and viola? The ships will be small?

SOS · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject:

Yup, that's all