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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
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I'm very good at lurking.
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> WOW! I Had no idea that the author of JSWED is on this list...
> I would like to beg two functions if I may be so bold...
slow things down, so I can see how the conveyors animate, and also to
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> A SPEED function in the rooms editor... I would like to be able to
try and see the start positions and start frames of the nasties at the
start of each level.
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I could turn off animations, that would be great. I could then look at
> A PAUSE function: Allow room animations to be stopped completely. If
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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