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- From: tayco@wintermute.co.uk (John Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
- Subject: Programmers aid thingy
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 10:15:29 GMT
- Organization: Wintermute Ltd, Scotland
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- Hello
-
- Well hmm.....here goes.....I am trying to program a programmers aid
- tool for handling more of the mundane tasks of coding computer games.
- Basically the way I see it, if I'm programming this in order so that I
- can program games there must be others out there in the same sort of
- situation. So I wanna know if there is a demand for this type of
- program.
-
- Here are the things I'm gonna try to include within the programmers
- aid:-
-
- Sprite cutter :- In this section I want it so that I can copy a sprite
- of any size up to a maximum of 128*128 to a sprite buffer from a pcx
- (almost any pc program) or lbm (dpaint and a couple of others) picture
- file. I then want it to save the sprite file as a ASM source file, C
- source file, or a pure binary file.
-
- Sprite editor :- In this I wanna be able to create or edit a sprite of
- any size up to a maximum of 128*128. It would be able to load a sprite
- file and save it in the above formats aswell.
-
- Object editor :- So that you can create objects in an game or
- something, Eg the file would contain the various sprite pictures for
- the position of a tank, and the various status bytes or bits
- describing the amount of hits it can take or its speed. This could be
- also used for describing object in an adventure game, such as A+B=C.
-
- Map editor :- For designing maps in a game such as Duke Nukem or
- Command and Conquer (good game by the way :> ).
-
- Well thats all I need it for but since I want this program to be as
- useful as possible for games programmers (I intend to make this
- program shareware), I want to know what else I could include in a
- program of this sort. If there is anybody out there who wishes to test
- out what I've already done of the program (not much yet) or who has
- got any Ideas can you please contact me via email and or through the
- usenet newsgroup comp.os.msdos.programmer
-
- Thankyou for reading this long letter :>
-
- cya all later !!!
-
-
- John Taylor can be contacted at:
- be2jkt@eee.rgu.ac.uk
- sideline@tayco.wintermute.co.uk
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