Few Questions from a relative Newb

[Crazybat]

Hi,

I've been lurking around various openBOR communities for a while, and have tinkered with characters and stages now and again. I just haven't kept up to speed, and if it's alright, I have a few questions.

1. I remember looking at a post/update/mod/something that said OpenBOR could handle individual pallettes for entities and characters. Has that been achieved yet?
2. Is it possible to have a high res OpenBOR with the same size of field as the old Xmen games and the like?
3. What is the recommended way to code a fireball/projectile special for a character? Apparently there does exist a method that doesn't require you to merge the two sprites and create a fireball with limited flight - rather simply code a projectile spawn in at the right time.

Any information would be greatly appreciated. I have a full week free, and I'd like to tinker around for a bit.

 

[ABK]

wow i think 16 bit mode with every entity having its own palette is almost 7 years in the engine, You create projectiles as entity then you use projectile command to shoot it 

	@cmd	projectile 1 "jab" 58 0 46 1 0 1

ITs possible to have even 3000x3000 resolution, i dont think there is any kind of limit on this.

 

[Crazybat]

Thanks. Just to be more specific, is it possible for a character to have a 256 colour pallette all to themselves, and how is this done?

 

[O Ilusionista]

put this on your video.txt

colourdepth 32bit

And it will let each char to have a different palette, with 256 colors.

 

[Crazybat]

what will I need to do to the character's txt file? do I need to add in a line of code specifying the pallette needed, or do I simply put the pallette file in with the character? sorry, i'm just a little confused.

and if this is a pretty old function, why haven't more people been using it? or have I been playing old .paks?

 

[O Ilusionista]

you've been playing old mods

Use this:

palette      data/chars/beast/id1.pcx
alternatepal  data/chars/beast/pal2.pcx

and so on.

 

[Crazybat]

oh, so I simply apply a palette to a character, then specify a main image like i would a remap? and has the main image format changed from gif to something else?

 

[ABK]

if you dont specify palette then it will use palette of the first picture in first animation

 

[Crazybat]

This is probably gonna sound moronic, but where can I find video.txt/cfg and all that?

 

[ABK]

in data folder where models.txt is and levels.txt
This is my video.txt:

video 640x360
colourdepth 32bit

You can have any resolution you want

 

[Crazybat]

thanks a bunch.

 

[Crazybat]

i apologise if this thread has degenerated into "I come at you with my problems, solve them for cookies", but I'm completely confussled. I can't seem to find the txts that control the amount of players allowed, the position of the characters on the select screen, etc. i've had a look around in OpenBORstats, but can't find anything that could help me. any ideas?

 

[zvitor]

http://dcemulation.org/?title=OpenBORManual
and the position of char at select screen is:

p{#}smenu {x1} {y1} {x2} {y2}

at levels.txt

 

[Crazybat]

thanks, again.