Cracking on for easter , game now released

[BlinkOk]

check this thread for rendering anti-aliased images.
Anti-aliasing
let me know how you go with it.

[BlinkOk]

just in case i made up 1bit transparency images as well. they look a bit jagged but i guess they work ok. different style really. kinna 8bit old skool type stuff.



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[BlinkOk]

ok one bit chicken freezing anim (10 frames in all). if you combine this with a little programmed shake i think it will make for some good visual interest. if this is ok i'm not going to use the dead image. i think it's better that way seeing as this is more a young kid type game.

let me know what you think.

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

just had a quick look at images as on way to work now

yes they all look good to me ,

i'm not going to use the dead image. i think it's better that way seeing as this is more a young kid type game.

yes thats seems a good idea as well
when i get home ile have a muck around with the title screen and see how it turns out , see if i can do it justice

thanks BlinkOk , ile check on p.c at work for any replies etc

mick :)

[BlinkOk]

ok we'll see how you go and then we can decide if we wanna go with the anti-aliased or 1bit images

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

sorry just a miss understanding by me i think , im at work had a spare 10 mins so was tickering about with front screen , is the chick sticking out of egg going to be stuff full out and 2 frame animation as if hes shivering , or is he popping up out of egg slowly

thanks
mick :)

ps ,, got it hes shivering , will continue when i get home later

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

this is just the frontscreen of game , the play sprite with with outline was not in zip files you did for me
also did'nt know how to make mouse pointer change to little hand ? , so i can change it while over the play sprite

anyway heres file

i see what you meen about slightly jagged around images

thanks
mick :)

[BlinkOk]

ok so you wanna go with the 1bit transparency rather that the anti-aliased?
i don't mind either way. it's up to you.
let me know and i'll crank out all the other stuff.
thanks

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

Well to be honest i aint got a clue yet on how to do anti-alising , i had a look at the link , but did not grasp it at all
i know that the graphics would look a lot nicer with that on

just did a search on 1 bit transparancy and got this back

1-bit transparency, meaning pixels are either completely visible or completely invisible, with no middle ground.

and i take it that anti-alising is the 8 bit version with 256 fades on the edge of images , so a lot better

but im quite happy with the version i just used on screentest so if thats ok with you ile go with that

await your comments on that

thanks
mick :)

[BlinkOk]

ok will go with the 1bit transparency. 1bit transparency means you specify a particular colour that is transparent. ie. the images you just worked with had magenta as their transparent colour.

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

I just change that to black in paint , so what sould i set imagemaskcolour to use magenta? so i can do it properly

thanks
mick :)

[BlinkOk]

yeah set the mask colour to magenta r=255, g=0, b=255
here are almost all the images. still to do a fail screen and play again button. let me know if i missed anything.
you may need to make the hammer shadow transparent. say 50%. can you do that? it might work without transparency though.
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sorry forgot the bg image for the gameplay;

[BlinkOk]

mickey.
can you make the transparency colour the colour of the pixel in the upper left hand corner of the image?
can you keep the filename/directory structure basically the same as i have in the delivered images? i think i can make some changes to smooth out the edges a little.

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

just downloaded images ,

can you make the transparency colour the colour of the pixel in the upper left hand corner of the image?

not to sure what you mean , set it to set the mask colour to magenta r=255, g=0, b=255

im of to work soon so ile try and do a little there and carry on tonight , going to take a little while i think

thanks mick :)

[kevin]

  Here's a bit of code to load an Anim sequence into a "Bank".  You can then peek the frames out of the bank

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path$="D:\Play_Basic\PBFX\Projects_Demos\_PB_Code_Examples_Site\Micky4Fun\Chickens\imagesv1_1\gameplay\birds\"

Dim Colours$(5)
Colours$(1)="BLue"
Colours$(2)="Cyan"

Dim AnimBanks(100)

For lp=0 to GetArrayelements(Colours$(),1)
Name$=Colours$(lp)
if Name$<>""
AnimBanks(lp)=LoadFrames(path$+Name$+"\","chick####.png")
endif
next


Do
Cls 0

if NextFrame<timer()
frameIndex=mod(FrameIndex+1,11)
Nextframe=Timer()+(1000/30)
endif

DrawFrame("Blue",FrameIndex,100,100,true)

DrawFrame("Cyan",FrameIndex,200,100,true)


Sync
loop



Function DrawFrame(Name$,FrameIndex,Xpos,Ypos,TransparentStatus)
Name$=lower$(name$)
For lp=0 to GetArrayelements(Colours$(),1)
if name$=lower$(Colours$(lp))
ThisBank=AnimBanks(lp)
ThisImage=PeekBankInt(AnimBanks(lp),FrameIndex*4)
drawimage ThisIMage,Xpos,Ypos,TransparentStatus
exit
endif
next

EndFunction



Function LoadFrames(path$,Filename$)
// crude # chr count
for lp=1 to Len(filename$)
inc  DigitsLength,mid$(filename$,lp,1)="#"
next
Hash$=Make$("#",DigitsLength)

Dim Frames(1000)

For lp=1 to 1000
f$=replace$(filename$,Hash$,digits$(lp,DigitsLength),1,false,false)
file$=Path$+f$
if FileExist(file$)
img=LoadnewFXImage(File$)
rendertoimage img
ImageMaskCOlour img,Point(0,0)
frames(framecount)=img
inc framecount
else
exit
endif
next
rendertoscreen
AnimBank=NewBank(FrameCount*4)
For lp=0 to FrameCount-1
PokeBankInt AnimBank,lp*4,Frames(lp)
next
EndFunction AnimBank