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my game map

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:38 pm
by dan

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:58 pm
by MJS
Amazing, thanks for sharing!!!

1942 and Starforce maps here: (done by Tim)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tmorrow/

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:06 am
by JoustGod
Hmmm...Burgertime is merely screen shots of each level? What gives? I feel I must be missing something here.

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:01 am
by zlk
Very Nice! :D

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:52 am
by dan
JoustGod wrote:Hmmm...Burgertime is merely screen shots of each level? What gives? I feel I must be missing something here.
Exactly.
But,it's a only map. :D
Umm..Is it better to describe the position of pepper?

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:13 pm
by QRS
Very nice Dan! I really liked the Wonderboy maps!

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:31 pm
by JoustGod
I apologize, Dan, if I seemed to not enjoy your work on this. The other game maps were very unique and impressive! Those involved scrolling scenes and it was great seeing the entire picture. However, with Burgertime being non-scrolling/ static playfield, I guess I was thinking I was missing something. Great work!

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:53 pm
by dan
Thanks. :D

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:04 am
by tmorrow
Dan,

Nice work.

I've done a couple of maps as well. See http://members.iinet.net.au/~tmorrow/em ... ation.html for maps of Star Force (without sprites) and 1942 (with sprites some cut off).

The approaches used for each map was different. In general it seems to be a difficult problem that involves a lot of work. I've had some discussion about this with Andrew Gardner (a MAME code contributer) who had some ideas. He has an automatic method of taking frequent screen grabs and differencing the results to remove foreground items. I wrote an automated way of taking screenshots every nth frame for fixed scrollers. Still, hard work no matter what method you use.

I'd be interested to hear details your techniques for creating these maps.

Cheers,
Tim

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:45 pm
by dan
It's cool.
tmorrow.

I combined screenshots taking suitably.
I cannot explain well,because I can speak English very little,sorry.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:34 am
by tmorrow
Dan,

Your english is fine. I was trying to understand whether you used a program or whether you did it manually. Whichever method you used, Well done!

Cheers,
Tim

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:49 pm
by dan
Thanks a lot,Tim :D