More Icon 'window'? in BYOND Discussion

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Mar 2 2006, 8:44 am
It's butthard multi-tiling something atm. So, seeing as there is more than enough space left when you've just got 1 'icon' window open (32*32 square), why couldn't there be an option to have, say, 2*2? 3*3 would take fullscreen, of course. But right now, it's really.. Pissing people off o.o.

Pic; (Yes, I love making them..)
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#1 Mar 2 2006, 9:30 am
Yea thats a good idea. Dream Maker really needs icon making tools improvement.
#2 Mar 6 2006, 4:19 pm
In response to FinalFantasyGamer (#1)
I think one thing we could use are more frames! It kinda sucks only being able to have an animation last 99 frames. Should I start a new topic for that?
#3 Mar 7 2006, 6:46 am
In response to KirbyRules (#2)
Has there ever been an instance where over 99 frames were needed?
#4 Mar 7 2006, 9:17 am
In response to KirbyRules (#2)
More than 99 frames isn't needed for an icon in a primarily 2D graphics engine...

Mysame, while it would be a nice function, it might not be feasible right now. A workaround is to simply design your icons in another program (paint will do*), then import them into Dream Maker. That allows you to make multi-tiled icons a lot easier.


*in fact paint is my preferred program of pixel art as the Dream Maker icon program has a diminished undo-redo memory!
#5 Mar 7 2006, 11:33 am
I think what would be even better would be to pull the icon editor right out of Dream Maker as a seperate window, with better zoom and sizing options. Also, it would be most excellent if frames could be set to have smaller delays, like 1/100th of a second instead of the standard tick of 1/10th.
#6 Mar 7 2006, 12:28 pm
In response to Xooxer (#5)
Xooxer wrote:
Also, it would be most excellent if frames could be set to have smaller delays

I second this. I really hate having slow animations for things like Megabuster bullets for megaman games. 10 fps just doesn't cut it.
#7 Mar 9 2006, 12:51 am
In response to KirbyRules (#6)
But right now byond can only run at 10 fps.