Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rikimbo on 2005-11-27 at 16:39:34
I've been messing around with TileEdit, and I'm making some changes to the tileset data (tedious work!). I seem to have figured out most of the workings of the whole thing, but there's one thing that still puzzles me...
In the space platform tileset, the 'Space' tile is really just black (as it appears in the editor), and so are all of it's edge parts. Eventually somewhere ingame it sets this black colour as a transparent colour and has this fixed stary background behind it, for a really neat spacey effect. That's cool, but I don't know where/how that part of it is controlled! I'd like to be able to do this for other tilesets, but I can't figure out how it's done, if it's even possible.
(I've tried black tiles, they don't work, they just look black in-game on other tilesets)
Anyone know anything about this?
In the space platform tileset, the 'Space' tile is really just black (as it appears in the editor), and so are all of it's edge parts. Eventually somewhere ingame it sets this black colour as a transparent colour and has this fixed stary background behind it, for a really neat spacey effect. That's cool, but I don't know where/how that part of it is controlled! I'd like to be able to do this for other tilesets, but I can't figure out how it's done, if it's even possible.
(I've tried black tiles, they don't work, they just look black in-game on other tilesets)
Anyone know anything about this?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by TERRAINFIGHTER on 2005-11-27 at 17:55:04
QUOTE(Rikimbo @ Nov 27 2005, 04:39 PM)
I've been messing around with TileEdit, and I'm making some changes to the tileset data (tedious work!). I seem to have figured out most of the workings of the whole thing, but there's one thing that still puzzles me...
In the space platform tileset, the 'Space' tile is really just black (as it appears in the editor), and so are all of it's edge parts. Eventually somewhere ingame it sets this black colour as a transparent colour and has this fixed stary background behind it, for a really neat spacey effect. That's cool, but I don't know where/how that part of it is controlled! I'd like to be able to do this for other tilesets, but I can't figure out how it's done, if it's even possible.
(I've tried black tiles, they don't work, they just look black in-game on other tilesets)
Anyone know anything about this?
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In the space platform tileset, the 'Space' tile is really just black (as it appears in the editor), and so are all of it's edge parts. Eventually somewhere ingame it sets this black colour as a transparent colour and has this fixed stary background behind it, for a really neat spacey effect. That's cool, but I don't know where/how that part of it is controlled! I'd like to be able to do this for other tilesets, but I can't figure out how it's done, if it's even possible.
(I've tried black tiles, they don't work, they just look black in-game on other tilesets)
Anyone know anything about this?
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I dont know where you would edit what the stars look like but the reason for the tiles being black is cause those are the actual tiles, starcrafts loading engine just places the stars in the background (I dont know what grp the stars are in)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rikimbo on 2005-11-27 at 17:58:24
QUOTE(TERRAINFIGHTER @ Nov 27 2005, 05:55 PM)
I dont know where you would edit what the stars look like but the reason for the tiles being black is cause those are the actual tiles, starcrafts loading engine just places the stars in the background (I dont know what grp the stars are in)
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Yes... I knew that... Obviously I wasn't clear enough.
What I'm trying to do is to have that same stary tile in ANOTHER tileset, and just painting the tile black doesn't seem to do it...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Voyager7456(MM) on 2005-11-27 at 19:29:08
I'm pretty sure that the space background is stored seperate from the tiles. :-/
Stormcoast Fortress used to have a tool, SpaceEdit to edit the star background, but I can't find the link to it right now.
Try looking at this mod: http://www.smempire.org/downloads.php?dlid=51 and seeing if that helps.
Stormcoast Fortress used to have a tool, SpaceEdit to edit the star background, but I can't find the link to it right now.
Try looking at this mod: http://www.smempire.org/downloads.php?dlid=51 and seeing if that helps.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by TERRAINFIGHTER on 2005-11-27 at 20:00:44
QUOTE(Voyager7456(MM))
Stormcoast Fortress used to have a tool, SpaceEdit to edit the star background, but I can't find the link to it right now.
Link to SpaceEdit
Edit: the zip archive is empty