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Make custom levels NOW :-)


Make custom levels NOW :-)

Postby Peter Balogh » Apr 2, 2002 @ 11:48pm

Hello Everyone,

Our new expansion pack takes ages to get ready, so I thought you'd be happy to make a few levels yourself :-)

The tools you need:
http://www.syntact.fi/~pbalogh/snails/zbmtools.zip

To create a new level you have to:
- Create two 945x540 pictures in 24 bit truecolor windows bitmap (.BMP) format. One of them is the background, one is the foreground. The #FF00FF (magenta) color on foreground indicates transparency.
- Drag-and-drop them on bmp2zbm.exe
- Edit the levels.dat file
- Copy it to your device
- Enjoy 8)

If you have questions or need help, post here and we'll try to reply :wink:
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Postby » Apr 2, 2002 @ 11:54pm

Cool! :)
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Postby NYIllustrator » Apr 3, 2002 @ 12:29am

nice i can finally get my mits on making levels.
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Postby Jaybot » Apr 3, 2002 @ 2:05am

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Postby (TSC)Bender » Apr 3, 2002 @ 2:37am

NOOO!!! It runs on DOS!! WIN2K (same goes for NT) wont be able to boot up the converter program. Make a Win2k friendly version please :)
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Postby loopy » Apr 3, 2002 @ 2:42am

i am confused. i made my level. i dragged and dropped it but nothing happened. what do you edit in teh levels.dat and does this prog. work with winxp

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Postby andys » Apr 3, 2002 @ 3:13am

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Postby NYIllustrator » Apr 3, 2002 @ 4:17am

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Postby loopy » Apr 3, 2002 @ 4:31am

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Postby Courtney White » Apr 3, 2002 @ 4:35am

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Postby randall » Apr 3, 2002 @ 4:59am

I wouldn't use MS Paint. Creating an effective and interesting scene wouldn't be impossible, but not really worth the effort, either. It would take you 100 times longer than if you used Photoshop or PSP.

At this point, I assume the people that are having concerns are only creating test-images. Nothing really neat, but they want to ensure the tools work before they get too involved. If you send me the image(s), I can see if I can get them to work and iron out possible issues.

If I can find a decent FTP (this office doesn't allow anything to get through), I'll upload the raw BMPs of the underwater scene for you guys to download and test.
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Postby Courtney White » Apr 3, 2002 @ 5:01am

I think i might actually try to make one.. luckly i have photoshop.

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