How do I build a stage out of chopped pictures?

[Violent Ken Masters]

I noticed some people make stages by cutting up a picture and putting them all in one group, but how do I do this? O_o

[BigJ]

what do you mean? You can take a picture and cut it up into little squares so that you don't lose any quality when you convert it to 256 colors. After that, just put it together in fighter factory.

[nick09]

i use XnView.

google it.

[b.easy]

chop the picture up into neat little 256 color chunks and align it all together in fighter factory. if you see crazy wavy clone lines you have empty space in your stage.

[Violent Ken Masters]

chop the picture up into neat little 256 color chunks and align it all together in fighter factory. if you see crazy wavy clone lines you have empty space in your stage.

I have it all ready, I just need to know what I'm supposed to do with the palette.

[nick09]

you don't need a palette for an stage.

[Violent Ken Masters]

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world I'm supposed to code it.

[Sgt Hartsock]

"cutted" isn't a word dude..might want to edit your topic name...anyway, I beleive eternaga has a good tutorial somewhere

[BigJ]

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world I'm supposed to code it.

just code it like a normal BG. only in your case, you'd have a bunch of [BG]'s in the def. for example:

[BG peice1]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice2]
spriteno = 1, 1
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice3]
spriteno = 1, 2
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

etc. etc. until you have all of the pieces together.

[nick09]

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world I'm supposed to code it.

just code it like a normal BG. only in your case, you'd have a bunch of [BG]'s in the def. for example:

[BG peice1]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice2]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice3]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

etc. etc. until you have all of the pieces together.

make sure the image no is different for each image.
or you will be putting the same images together.

[BigJ]

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world I'm supposed to code it.

just code it like a normal BG. only in your case, you'd have a bunch of [BG]'s in the def. for example:

[BG peice1]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice2]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice3]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

etc. etc. until you have all of the pieces together.

make sure the image no is different for each image.
or you will be putting the same images together.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out nick, I'm gonna edit my post.

[nick09]

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world I'm supposed to code it.

just code it like a normal BG. only in your case, you'd have a bunch of [BG]'s in the def. for example:

[BG peice1]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice2]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

[BG peice3]
spriteno = 1, 0
layerno = 0
start = 0, 0
delta = 1, 1
mask = 1

etc. etc. until you have all of the pieces together.

make sure the image no is different for each image.
or you will be putting the same images together.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out nick, I'm gonna edit my post.

no prob.

[Violent Ken Masters]

Thanks guys, but I'm just wondering how to code it as an animated stage. 
Anyways so far so good, but I have plans to put a wooden floor in, as well as some lights flashing.

[Sgt Hartsock]

ok cool, just remember, "Cutted" isn't a word

[Violent Ken Masters]

ok cool, just remember, "Cutted" isn't a word

I'm not a perfectionist so
 

[Sgt Hartsock]

well good grammar helps

[MaverickZr0]

Well good grammar helps.

  Capital letters and periods rule!

[Violent Ken Masters]

Okay so how do I make things just pop up. I have these pictures set up perfectly but I have no idea how I'm going to code them. 

[MaverickZr0]

Do you mean pop up in front of the characters, or pop up like an animation?

[Violent Ken Masters]

pop up like an animation, you know like the lights in neon sign's at casino's.

[Sgt Hartsock]

hey is your stage from a game or something?? what is the stage going to be??

[Violent Ken Masters]

hey is your stage from a game or something?? what is the stage going to be??

Right now it's a secret, all I can say is it's original.

[Violent Ken Masters]

Nevermind! I'm good! I'm going to release it in a few hours.
I just had to turn bg1 into an animation.