Hi there !
my game has developped a new problem
I have managed to make a background and my hero can move over it without erasing the background. I can even make the background scroll. (thanx again 4 all the tips).
Now there is a second problem.
I have made 2 nice bmp files with paint.
the first one is the graphix file, containin the hero, the enemies etc.
the second file is the background.
when i use BMP2MSX.EXE to create a SC5 file, the colors get messed up.
However, in msx I type COLOR+RESTORE and voila, that looks good again.

But it looks good for only 1 of the 2 files.
either the background looks good, and my hero and enemies look terrible,
or my hero looks good, and the background is coloured ugly !

Does anyone have a clue whatsoever how to fix the (minor?) difficulty?

§!§ gracias por su ajuda §!§

One more thing... I have problems with images SC5 converted with BMP2MSX and Turbo Pascal. When I load images, they are shifted 10 pixels from left to right. Why?

Include both graphics in the same file. Therefore, you will get only ONE palette for both elements. The problems that you are experiencing right now happen because you overlap two different palettes.

By the way, get a proper graphic editor! PAINT stinks!

Well uhm, bmp2msx prolly checks for the colors that are there, but even if the *same* colors are used in the image, it doesn't guarantee that the colors are all at the right position, compared to other images!

What I do in photosoup is: make an indexed color image, manually set 16 colors, and then convert the image. This way the 'indexed color' image (and all other images using this scheme) uses the colors as you define them!

Another option is to use bmp2msx, write down somewhere which colors it uses an where those colors are located in the palette. Then check out the other image and manually swap colors and pixels until the palette is exactly the same.

Or use an MSX1! Then there are neither software sprites (using BASIC, at least) nor palette problems (there is no palette at all). You see, lots of advantages!

hehehe

thanx, Ill get right to it...
now... where did I put that msx1 again.....

EUREKA.
IK FIXED IT.
thanks once more......
My background image and my hero/enemy image now use the same color palette. It´s starting to look great.
I´ve got my hero, a background which scrolls,
I´m going to start with music soon.
Anyone got a nice programm to make music for fm-pac which i can play in the background of my basic game?

Moonblaster, includes an easy basic replayer

The problem is, that you really have only 16 color pallette and you need to spread that to both images.

I think, that next is quite a good way to get good result:
- First estimate, how much colors are needed for backround and how much for other things. (For example 1-10 (X) for backround and 11-15 (Y) for elements)

- Convert backround so, that Y colors are defined as "no use" and rest are "automatic color"
- Convert elements so, that X colors are defined as "automatic color" and Y colors are defined with previous "automatic color" values now selected as "customize color"

- Save elements

- Convert backround again with all "customize color" palette taken from elements.

- Save backround

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It´s starting to look great.

Any chance we get to see some (fabricated) screenshots?

all in good time

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Any chance we get to see some (fabricated) screenshots?

it is time for a screenshot yes, (also because I have some questions, which I´d like to ask using this screenshot.)




now, what I´d like to do is fade the blue color spectrum into a red color spectrum. resulting into this:

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DarQ fori=0to7 : forj=0to31 : x=vpeek(&h7680+j)-17 : x=x+(xand&h88)/8 : vpoke&h7680+j,x : nextj : color=restore:nexti:cls

this trick (thanx DarQ) gives a full color fadeout (blue, red and green),
does someone know how to fade the blue into red (or into green)?

D-Tail: My file so far is 3 kb !!!

I have got a few enemies passing on the timeline and the bottom of the screen (see 1st picture above) scrolls horizontaly (scrolling the entire screen makes my game too slow, which makes the background a bit boring, that´s why I´m looking to colorfade the background.

So minimizing much, I might stomp level one in 6kb........

Sounds good!