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Message: 6309

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 12/12/2007

Subject: Re: My first practical suggestion for JSWED

 

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, mark wills wrote:

WOW! I Had no idea that the author of JSWED is on this list...

I'm very good at lurking.

I would like to beg two functions if I may be so bold...

A SPEED function in the rooms editor... I would like to be able to

slow things down, so I can see how the conveyors animate, and also to
try and see the start positions and start frames of the nasties at the
start of each level.

A PAUSE function: Allow room animations to be stopped completely. If

I could turn off animations, that would be great. I could then look at
each room and see the start positions and animation frames of the
nasties. Very nice.

While these are certainly possible, you could alternatively take a
look at the raw room data with the hex editor and use Andrew Broad's
room format as a guide (unfortunately it gives offsets in decimal, but
that's a minor inconvenience):

http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/mm_format.html

With those two you can either go straight to the start position and
frame (the frame is nearly always 0 or 7).

An alternative would be to export the rooms using JSWED 2.3.x and look
at the resulting XML, but this converts the guardians into JSW format
- a process which can change the start position and frame (the change
is reversed on import).

If you want a PayPal donation for your program please let me know...

I feel a bit guilty using it every day! It's a seriously great program!

JSWED is Free Software, both as in free speech and as in free beer.

 

 

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