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Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:07 am
by beamrider
Just to add a couple of things to what John said..

First, as I mentioned before make sure you do a proper refresh Ctrl+F5. I tried and it works in Chrome and Firefox although IE currently has issues with the code. I'll get around to fixing that in due course.

Second if you don't want the MiniPaint character layout take the following steps to edit a bitmap of the required size (of course respecting a maximum of 256 unique characters)

1) In the main screen area select the required bitmap area (Select All button selects the entire screen).
2) Select the character in the table where you would like the bitmap to be allocated from.
2) Click "Layout Cols" (or Rows as prefered)
3) Click "Edit as Bitmap"
4) The bitmap window will open
5) Click "Select All" in the bitmap window.
6) Click "Clear" to "wipe" the character data for those characters.
7) Edit as required.

btw, I plan to add some more functionality to the bitmap window in the future. Maybe some "paint" type tools such as lines, fills, fonts placement etc.

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:47 pm
by darkatx
I've been away for too long (que Soundgarden) - awesome job man! :)

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:10 pm
by akator
I get an error when trying to download. Is the offline versions still available?

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:13 pm
by beamrider
temporary glitch, try now...

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:46 pm
by akator
Thank you! :)

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:28 pm
by beamrider
Another update to version 0.61

- Add multi color operations to swap colur registers in selected characters
- Added multicolor horizontal flip in the Bitmap editor
- a few minor bug fixes

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 6:43 am
by pixel
Just started a simple new game with it but I'm missing two more rows and PAL colors [EDIT: found them…]. Having fun! Thanks! :D
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Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:22 am
by beamrider
Looking good :D

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:56 pm
by joshuadenmark
Super :shock: very impressed!

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:43 pm
by Misfit
Few months ago I had plans to make something like this. But you already did it. Thumbs up! Looks great!

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:30 am
by orion70
:shock: Arkanoid?

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:56 am
by beamrider
Now you just need to make it move...

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Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:06 am
by pixel
Yep! Thanks! It's supposed to become Arkanoid.

Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:39 am
by pixel
beamrider wrote:Now you just need to make it move...
Sorted, Sir! Sub-pixel accurate ball trajectory and collision detection (AKA perfect) with signed byte arithmetics. :mrgreen:

Now watch the difference between the original sketch and what's coming out of Vice. I wished at least the single character boxes were closer to the original aspect ratio.

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Re: Vic 20 Screen and Character designer

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:54 am
by majikeyric
WOW,very promising ! :D