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Message: 4885

Author: Daniel

Date: 09/09/2005

Subject: Screenshot-taking utilities and maps

 

1.

a) Carl Woffenden wrote:

> I've uploaded a little utility I wrote to stitch together
> screenshots. Given a directory of PNG images and a text file
> describing them it will generate one large image. There's a simple
> example in the ZIP along with an example of the JSW map:

<http://downloads.bigredswitch.co.uk/makemap.zip>


b) John Elliott wrote:

> OK. There's a new JSWED 2.2.4 uploaded which has a quick-and-dirty
> screenshot utility added. To use it, go to the room editor and press
> F8. It will emit one .PNG file for each room in the game.

<http://www.seasip.info/Jsw/jswed224.zip>


Thanks a lot to both of you, Carl and John! I appreciate your making
these tools available to the JSW/MM community, and I am sure many
people will make a good use of them :-) . I have downloaded both
tools, but frankly, I haven't had the time to test them yet. However,
I will certainly do it when I get to the point where I will start
preparations for "The Universal ZX Spectrum Miner Willy Gaming
Centre" and making maps of the existing games, hopefully before the
end of this year.


2.

jet_visy wrote:

> Nice tool, Carl. Maybe this will be _the_ thing to get me around to
> make a map for Willy's Flashback.

A question to jet_visy:

Do you consider the unmodified rooms from the original "JSW", which
can be found in "Willy's Flashback", a part of the game?

I am specifically referring to the sequence of the rooms which
includes: "The Off Licence", "The Bridge", "Under the MegaTree", "At
the Foot of the MegaTree", "Inside the MegaTrunk", "Cuckoo's
Nest", "On a Branch Over the Drive", "Tree Top" and "Out on a limb" -
these rooms can be accessed during the game /without/ using
Writetyper - one can access "The Off Licence" by jumping to
the left at the top of "Bow to the Bowl" (005), passing momentarily
through "Minister will see you now" (019); one can then exit
this sequence by jumping to the left from "Out on a limb" (013),
landing safely in "Hart to Hart" (010).
The player does not need to enter these rooms, because there are no
items in them, but can do so, if he/she wishes to do it. So should
they be considered a part of the game? What about other unmodified
rooms, which could be accessed by the Writetyper cheat?


Daniel

 

 

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