ok i have a jpg file that is a bunch of 32X32 tileslumped together. i think the artist has entended it to be use with a program called RPG Maker 2000? is there any program that you know of that can split the big file in to a bunch of 32x32 files for me to use in cold stone, or am i going to have to do it all by hand. better yet does any one know if theres a way to use the one big file but have coldstone know its many tile in one file?
thanks in advance
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We had a topic about RPG Maker 2000 files a while back, and I seem to remember that the consensus was that you could either do it by hand in a graphics program, or write a program in Photoshop that would split it automatically. You might want to ask some one else how to do the latter, as I am PS illiterate.
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It's not possible to use multiple images/tiles in a single file with Coldstone; you will have to split them. I've used Photoshop actions towards that end before, which worked fairly well.
...Y'know, someone should write a standalone program to do that in a more userfriendly way... hmm, maybe after finals are over I'll look into it. 
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thank you celchu and glen for replying to this post.
glen what is photoshop actions and can you do it with photoshop 7.0?
thanks
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I just learned that graphic converter will take care of this for you - it's painless, though I don't remember what it was called/where it was located.
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Originally posted by Klatu:
**I just learned that graphic converter will take care of this for you - it's painless, though I don't remember what it was called/where it was located.
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It does? Neat. paperinplastix, you can find Graphic Conerter at (url="http://"http://www.versiontracker.com")www.versiontracker.com(/url), specifically (url="http://"http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11559&db;=mac")here.(/url) Good luck.
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Originally posted by paperinplastix:
**ok i have a jpg file that is a bunch of 32X32 tileslumped together. i think the artist has entended it to be use with a program called RPG Maker 2000? is there any program that you know of that can split the big file in to a bunch of 32x32 files for me to use in cold stone, or am i going to have to do it all by hand. better yet does any one know if theres a way to use the one big file but have coldstone know its many tile in one file?
thanks in advance
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Are you talking about the character sprites files? I was thinking of doing all of that work; splitting them, changing them to 72DPI, putting them on a white background, and blurring the dithered areas.
My current opinion on the matter is that I'll do it if I get a few requests to do so. Email jeffpearson@graphic-designer.com if you'd like to request any graphics gruntwork.
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Originally posted by paperinplastix:
what is photoshop actions and can you do it with photoshop 7.0?
I'd be very surprised if you couldn't, as you certainly can with Photoshop 5.5.
Actions are found in the "Actions" floating palette (surprise surprise ) which, at least in 5.5, shares a tab with the "History" palette. If you take a look at some of the default actions that are included with Photoshop, you can get a pretty good idea of how actions work - it's how I figured them out.
Basically, actions are a way of recording a series of steps or events in Photoshop, and saving them so that they can be "played back" at any time. For instance, I recorded an action to split a single character animation (8 frames) from one of the images in the "Zelda-like" graphic set (in the Coldstone add-ons). It goes roughly as follows:
(assumption is that the user has already selected the group of frames to be copied)
Copy
Create new file
Paste
Scale image to 200% (pixel doubling for that retro effect)
Select a 64x64 region (one frame) at the upper left corner of the image
Copy
Create new file
Paste
Flatten file (to eliminate the layer created by pasting)
Return to the previous file (the one containing the 8 frames)
Select a 64x64 region (another frame) in the upper right corner of the image
(...repeat as above for the remaining frames...)
Close the file that was created to store the 8-frame set
At the end of this, you have 8 new files - one containing each pixel-doubled frame of the sprite selected - ready to be saved under whatever names I see fit. It's a big time-saver, as I'm sure you can imagine.
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yeah so i got graphic converter and its a nice piece of ones and zeros so i regesterd it 
Just dont know how to do the tile spiting with it. Tryed to fool around with it and nothing, but knowing me its probally right in front of my face ... lol
madman - no iam talking about landscape map tiles but if you have some good character tiles then you can allways send em to me
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