vylycyn
Level: Smiter

Rank Points: 486
Registered: 03-05-2005
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In DROD:AE, it was much easier to make smaller graphical mods then in JTRH.
This was because we could open up the graphics and change only how the eyes looked, or only how beethro looked.
In JTRH, if somebody wants to change the graphics, they have to make a complete set of graphics.
I understand that you don't want to release the images, so I figured out a way to make this happen without having to release them.

If you added more files that we could make, such as beethrotiles.png, roachtiles.png, tartiles.png, etc., we could still use the default images for most things, and only change what we want.
These files would overide whatever is set as the default image, or is inside of general tiles.
Since they would only affect some of the tiles, smaller mods would be easier to make.

I haven't really looked at the source code yet, so I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement, but it would be a very nice feature for the modding community.

Having this added to JTRH may just be wishful thinking, but at the least consider doing it for DROD 3.

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stigant
Level: Smitemaster

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Registered: 08-19-2004
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Are there decent APIs for reading/writing png format files? If so, it wouldn't be impossibly difficult to write a graphics-mod utility for DROD. Just load the new images/edit the individual images in the utility, blit them to the right location on the master image and then rewrite the master image file. Not that I'm volunteering to do this...

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