Helpful Programs

[CatT]

I've never heard of them, but MIDI is the format that is used by most of the commercial 2D games.

I've heard of mods. I'm comfortable with those and midis. The others I don't know either but can learn. I'm going to download a bunch of things now and I'll be back tomorrow. I think I'll plunge for six months of Game Editor. Looking around in the threads it seems the code I'm familiar with will help me here, using co-ordinates is new to me but it makes sense. Thanks again.

[Troodon]

To edit, rotate or resize pictures, I use FastStone image viewer. It's free and there is all, I need when making game graphics.

[Novice]

Graphics Gale is a good peace of software for making pixel art and animations. It has a free version wich can't make icon files but othervise its fully functional so check it out.

[plinydogg]

Cat,

You said that you aren't ready for Photoshop yet, but if you ever need a great (i.e., somehwat similar to Photoshop) image editor, take a look at the free program called the Gimp (gimp.org).

[CatT]

Cat,

You said that you aren't ready for Photoshop yet, but if you ever need a great (i.e., somehwat similar to Photoshop) image editor, take a look at the free program called the Gimp (gimp.org).

Thanks, all of you. I will download the whole bunch and try them out--also today I'm going to try the script wizards in Game Editor.

Pliny--you know I'm Cat from pdarcade, right? : ) Your new game looks great.

Thanks!!!!! You've all helped my learning curve level out.

[plinydogg]

Oh yeah.....I knew that cat picture looked familiar!

[CatT]

I've discovered Game Editor's tutorials. : ) That should keep me occupied for awhile.

As far as pixel art goes, I found a basic tutorial:

http://www.natomic.com/hosted/marks/mpat/

There's a links page that looks good.

[CatT]

You're welcome! Oh and if you need help with the programming, I might be able to help too! Any other program you need?

Does anyone use a tile ripper program that's good or is this a feature in Game Editor already that I'm missing or is this an extinct idea?

[AleX_XelA]

What exactly do you need? Tiles from which games? I can help you, but you need to be more precise!

[CatT]

What exactly do you need? Tiles from which games? I can help you, but you need to be more precise!

Thanks, but I wasn't thinking exactly of tiles from a particular game. I want to take a large picture I or someone else has drawn and cut it up into tiles rather than use one large flat backdrop. I think I've found a little program to do that (after googling for awhile)---Split N' Tile. I don't know if anyone has successfully used it for this, but it looks like it might work as you can cut the picture up into tiles and load them into paint or another program. It's just something I want to experiment with.

But thank you for your offer of game tiles---if I go that route, I'll certainly ask you. And I'll certainly ask about coding help soon. Right now I'm working on sprites and tiles.

[CatT]

Well I usually use Paint, to create/modify my graphics. I know it seems boring and all, but if you learn how to use it properly, you can make great things! Otherwise I can recommend you this :

Photofiltre : (1.6 Mb), it's free, and can do many interesting things with effects etc. You'll find a better description in the website. If you plan on using this, I can also suggest you to take a look at the plug-ins, which can be very useful! Enjoy!

AleX, I'm loving Photofiltre. Thanks.

[AleX_XelA]

You're welcome CatT! Hey if you need anything, just ask! And I mean anything!

[CatT]

You're welcome CatT! Hey if you need anything, just ask! And I mean anything!

OK, I have two simple questions:

How do you make a tile solid on top so your character can walk on it?

How do you warp to a second level in a 2d platform game? For example, you touch a gate and it opens so that you continue on your platform to the next level?

Thanks.

[Troodon]

I don't have right now much time but you can make tile solid with physical response and the 2nd level thing you can do by transporting your actor to the 2nd level with script editor.

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actor.x = 2600;
actor.y = -3200;//2nd level starting point coordinates


I hope this helped.

[CatT]

I don't have right now much time but you can make tile solid with physical response and the 2nd level thing you can do by transporting your actor to the 2nd level with script editor.

Code: Select all

actor.x = 2600;
actor.y = -3200;//2nd level starting point coordinates


I hope this helped.

I'll try it tonight. Thank you for taking the time to do that. I think it looks very helpful. Thanks again.