chipset generator!

[Osmose]

Flash + bitmaps = trouble

This is from years of fighting with the damn program. If you can find some way to circumvent it's horrible treatment to bitmaps, I take my hat off to you.

[ivan mage]

ive been using flash for two years now, and i have never had a problem with bitmaps. very odd...

[Osmose]

Have you ever imported a bitmap to the stage? See how distorted it gets? You can see it already in your screenshots, those bitmaps are distorted themselves.

[ivan mage]

the only reason its distorted is because i had to convert the image to a jpg just to put it on the forum. but belive me, it was nothing like that in the program itself.

[VulcanRaven336]

I think he'll pull it off.

[Osmose]

No, not the JPEG distortion. If you look closely at the tree you can see it's uneven and choppy and stuff. Plus, if you look at all the sprites, the edges are screwed up.

[GaryCXJk]

Flash + Generating = Trouble.

Unless you figured out a way to actually save the bitmaps with Flash, I wouldn't use it.

[ivan mage]

oh! i see what you mean! not to worry, problem fixed!

[ivan mage]

now, im certian alot of people are wondering how im going to make this work, so ill tell you.

if you use macromedia flash then you know that everything is divided into layers, like this

__________<--buttons
__________<--lines
__________<--chipset
__________<--background

what happens with my chipset generator is, when you click on a button, it imports a pre set image of that particular type of chip and puts it into the chipset layer.
so, to save it, all flash needs to do is save the files on that one layer

__________
__________
__________<--this is the layer that is saved
__________

well there you go, now you know.

[GaryCXJk]

Save as a file, not into Flash. If you can't save it into a file, such thing is useless.

And i haven't seen any Actionscript command that can write to a file.

[Moosetroop11]

If you pull it off, and do it well, you will have done a great thing. No-one else (to my knowledge) has made a chipset generator.

[GaryCXJk]

Originally posted by Moosetroop11
If you pull it off, and do it well, you will have done a great thing. No-one else (to my knowledge) has made a chipset generator.

Even, better, noone has pulled it off to save a PNG with Flash.

[Reain_]

Flash? Intersting ... But it looks good so far, Though for somthing like this you'd think it be easier to use Visual Basic. I took a class for VB this year and it seems like a good program for making things like this .... Once I figure out more I'll probally use it to make generators like this.


but Keep up the good work and hope it comes out working like it should it will defanatly make chipsets much easyier. Then all you need is for people to make resorces for it.

and if he does find a way to save the image even if it is not png you can always convert it later. that or Print Screen works ^_~

[Drace]

Good luck. I find you brave to work on it while these people hear a being mean against you. Give him a ****ing break and support him.

[Ace of Spades]

Good luck dude. Cool thing that you're doing, will be a good asset (spelling?) to people. Hopefully you'll pull it off, keep workin hard!

OT: I can't believe I fell for that too...-_-'