New Wall for 640x480 Resolution

[manikus]

The signs are very nice.

I was just thinking that I may need to redo my map - I want to add some warehouse space. In fact, I may need to start the map over. D'oh! If only we could cut and paste, or shift everything five spots to the right and five spots down.

[Dinonykos]

Can you not easily add some squares? I f I remember right, all the features (walls, events, BGs) are kept as long as you do not decrease the level size.

[manikus]

You can add - to the right and bottom (East and South). Unfortunately, I built too close in to the upper left corner and those are the two directions that I want to expand in.

The process for this is a bit time consuming, but will be for the best in the long run. I am copying the text from all events into a text document, with each event labeled. It will be easy to cut and paste back into the new town. Plus, in the mean time, I can run the text file through a spellchecker.

[Dinonykos]

Originally Posted by manikus You can add - to the right and bottom (East and South). Unfortunately, I built too close in to the upper left corner and those are the two directions that I want to expand in.

But in DC, if you reach the northern edge of a level, your next step will take you to the lowest row in the South. Same with East and West. I admit that it feels a little strange, but you can easily put your additional squares for the top and the left in the southern and eastern parts of your level. I have done that several times.

[manikus]

Yes, you can do that, but I want the coordinates that show for the player not to reveal that....though since I'm 'centering' my town, I guess it wouldn't really matter. I'm still going to copy al of the events into a text file so I can spellcheck them.

Once again, entropy wins out.

Thanks for talking me into taking the easy path.

[Dinonykos]

Well, I have to admit that I forgot about the coordinates. You have a point!
A yes, thanks for the phrase "talking s.o. into doing s.o.", I did not know that.

[manikus]

I have decided to follow your advice and just increase the size of the level and not do it over. (Well I have to do part of it over, but I hadn't added any events to that part yet. )

Edited to add:
At noon I changed my mind. I cleared the level and started over. (Don't worry I backed everything up in a different folder first.)
I still have 65 wall slots left to use and 87 backdrop slots. So, if you have a tall version of the pine trees that you want to upload, that would be great.

[manikus]

Getting back into the spirit of this thread, I needed a ladder for my design, so here is the overlay I started with. It's not the one I'm actually going to use in the design, it turns out, I had to add some tweaks to use it for my purposes, but it should be useful to folks.

It's the kind of ladder that is mounted to a wall.

Click on the image to see it full-sized.

[Uatu]

Nice stuff, guys!

Interesting about the "hanging" sign that Dinonykos did - I did a sign like that (once), but I didn't have the bright idea to NOT center the sign, or it will look stupid (just a line from the side). Maybe if I ever do a sign again...

All these walls make me want to jump on the wall wagon again But walls take so much time (too many pixels), so I tend to stop before finishing one...

[manikus]

If you really wanted to get back on the wall wagon you could do overlays - they generally require a lot fewer pixels.

I also did a hanging sign, and I also centered it so that it was close to invisible straight-on.

I've almost got the new mod back to where it was before I started over.