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Maps In Progress / Alien 3 and parallax backgrounds
« on: July 06, 2010, 09:47:00 am »
I started working on Alien 3 for the SNES. There's a cheat code making all gameplay trivial, which I'm thankful for. Also the screen scrolls nicely, revealing all corners without having to walk back and forth 100 times to reach that last row of pixels. All conditions are great except for one thing. The parallax background.
I tried making a search here to find out how to best deal with it but couldn't find any real sollution. So I will create this post and try to be as specific as possible.
I'm using the 'snes9x 1.51 win32' emulator, so I can easily just remove that layer, it will be replaced with plain black. Sadly there's alot of back in the foreground layer preventing me to just use the magic wand tool in Paint.NET to remove all black and slide the background in beneath.
I realize this is a common problem but what is the best sollution?
My ideas are these:
To me the last one seems like the best pick and it also sounds realistic to me
I tried making a search here to find out how to best deal with it but couldn't find any real sollution. So I will create this post and try to be as specific as possible.
I'm using the 'snes9x 1.51 win32' emulator, so I can easily just remove that layer, it will be replaced with plain black. Sadly there's alot of back in the foreground layer preventing me to just use the magic wand tool in Paint.NET to remove all black and slide the background in beneath.
I realize this is a common problem but what is the best sollution?
My ideas are these:
- Just leave the background black. (Worst sollution. Think I rather don't map the game then)
- If there was a way to tweak the emulator (or if there's another emulator that can already do it) to either freeze a layer (doesn't even sound likely to me) or
- make the emulator display an obscure color, like pink (or even better, transparent for the output image), as its background rather than black.
To me the last one seems like the best pick and it also sounds realistic to me
