Problems...

Ok, so I've been using PICT sprites this whole time, and I've recently been having some problems with the masks. Particularly the glow masks. Plus, shots are passing through ships all of a sudden, the player ship can't be hit with shots anymore...

It was mentioned that I should try to work in rle8 and rleD as often as possible.

So I just downloaded the EnRLEDeRLE utility.

Then I took my picts, ran them through Photoshop to make sure they were the correct format, then placed them in a new ResEdit file with the shans, and ran that through enRLE.

Then I took the resulting rle8 and rleD files and pasted them into my plug.
This is where it gets strange. After I save the plug, I check the rle8/D resounces, and some of the sprites have been replaced with a spining R & R logo?? But it didn't get switched until after I saved the file.

I presume the R & R refers to EnRLEDeRLE's credits - Ralph & Rodger Sutherland.

But what the heck is going on?

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This post has been edited by rmx256 : 21 March 2006 - 07:56 AM

@rmx256, on Mar 21 2006, 11:17 AM, said in enRLE deRLE:

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Say what?

@desprez, on Mar 20 2006, 10:57 PM, said in enRLE deRLE:

Then I took my picts, ran them through Photoshop to make sure they were the correct format, then placed them in a new ResEdit file with the shans, and ran that through enRLE.

Just a note: Unlike Nova, EnRLE doesn't care what format your PICTs are in so there's no need to run them through Photoshop first. The R&R logo sounds pretty odd though - I've never seen such a thing before.

@desprez, on Mar 21 2006, 09:38 AM, said in enRLE deRLE:

Say what?

That's his way of saying he was going to say something but thought better of it and removed it. nbsp = non-breaking space.

This post has been edited by Guy : 24 March 2006 - 12:11 AM

@guy, on Mar 23 2006, 08:02 PM, said in enRLE deRLE:

The R&R logo sounds pretty odd though - I've never seen such a thing before.

I have- it pops up in NovaTools when you create a new rlë resource. It could be that EnRle outputs that when it can't make heads or tails of its input, or it could be that due to a mal-formed spďn, it is outputting a blank rlë.

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