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Mike Caron · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: New feature

So, I've been hacking away at the OHR again, and I decided to cross off a longstanding item on my TODO list.

Do you dare find out what?!

I think that most will find this a *very* welcome addition to the OHR!
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

When I saw the filenames of the .png files you posted, I immediately knew, "Holy crap! They actually did it!"

And I bet you guys made it easier to use than Zelda Classic.

J.A.R.S. · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

Layers? how many are there?

EDIT: It's funny, I was coding my engine last night and added layers too

Mike Caron · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:

J.A.R.S. · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

Onlyoneinall was working around with a streetlamp system using npcs to simulate this, quite ingenious, but I think this addition will particularly make him smile Happy

it will also fix all these games with cave settings where it didnt quite overlap corners. DEFINATLY an awesome addition to the ohr!
*BOWS*

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Nobody has even touched on the true usefulness of this.

Now trees, bridges, etc can overlap animated water and other animated tiles without having to make a single extra tile to do so.

You can now have an animated rain tile that overlaps the whole map.

Mike Caron · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

The only reason I did this was because I was working on the tileset you see a part of in the picture. When I got to the plant, and I had the same tile on three different surfaces, I realized I had to god-mod this one.

Won't be the first time, nor the last Big grin

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J.A.R.S. · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Seven layers sound overkill and hard to manage.

J.A.R.S. · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

Hard to manage: Not with the array system
Overkill? Ya, I agree, 6 would've done the job, and to be perfectly honest, for 99.999999% of the rpgs, 3 is more than enough which is why I applaud the current progress. I just wanted to make bridges you can walk under and over WITHOUT coding the switch of level (it's built-in on a 3 different layer of passability mode! call it mind breaking yeah). The 3 layer design is more flexible, more elegant one might say, and since this is a creation engine, 3 layer IS the perfect number.
I'm not too used with that but... is it going to be in the next nightly or?

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

J.A.R.S. · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:

actually, my engine tolerates semi transparency... so semi ice mirrors and all and 32 bits graphics... 7 layers became necessary, but that's another scope...
What is OHR coded in now? I guess it must've changed language to tolerate windows... And since its open source, if its a "basic" language, I might be of some help in this field if help is required Wink

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

J.A.R.S. · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:02 am Post subject:

Yeah, I immediatly saw the streets and I went like : "oh yeah, more of these goodies!!!" That is, not counting the MASSIVE shrink in ohr maptiles... no more background for the tree where you draw grass. Keep it black and make a tree, good for anything, and probably you can use the third layer to link them as a whole, so no more need to make these complex tree-networks to give the idea of a contiguous forest.
I wasn't personally expecting the OHR to jump that step so... apparently easily? I thought the mainframe of the program had a structure that could hardly stretch on this count but... heck glad I was wrong Wink

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

I'm sorry but... how I do I place tiles in the other two layers? Maybe I misunderstood the directions, but Alt F1 - F3 doesn't seem to do anything for me, and I don't know how to change the layer so I can place tiles in a different once, since it seems the bottom layer cannot be turned off in the Ctrl+L Menu?
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