Conversion Capers: Rygar

[nobody]

Originally Posted by Cylon

@nobody
Good work !

@all
Please remember to keep some color regs for the baddies and items. a short test with the screenshots from the beginning can give a hint how much colors are actually used for the bobs:

>80 (if all on screen at the same time)!

we can trim those colors down, but they have to use a big amount of colors from the main palette.

enemies in 16 colors, it's about the best i could do.

[sandruzzo]

Rygar will have its' own palette since it's a HW sprite. Enemies will be mapped on the first 4 planes, and the left colors will be use by background.

Originally Posted by nobody

enemies in 16 colors, it's about the best i could do.

@Nobody

Great Work! Can you put the most used enemies into first colors? The more blitting cicles we spare the better the game will be

@Cylon
@Nodoby

Great works Mates. Now we should work on setting things in place. As I see we have to have 32 color for the game:

- 16 for enemies
- 16-32 for background
- is it possible to try to use only 16 colors for both enemies and background
- Keep in mind that we will use blitter to change color for Background and Have more of them

[nobody]

it would be better to have a clear plan from the beginning, example 16 colors for sprites and 16/32 for backgrounds to avoid a 16 color for all conversion job.

imo its better not mix background colors with sprite colors because some times its hard to see whats going on. 16 colors for sprites and another 16 for backgrounds is the best way to go for me.

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by nobody

it would be better to have a clear plan from the beginning, example 16 colors for sprites and 16/32 for backgrounds to avoid a 16 color for all conversion job.

imo its better not mix background colors with sprite colors because some times its hard to see whats going on. 16 colors for sprites and another 16 for backgrounds is the best way to go for me.

@Nobody

You're right, but since we don't know for sure if we're able to run it at 50hz, we have to do some try.

Think about turrican 16 color for all,and it's clear!

[saimon69]

@nobody
some enemies are missing there: the snakes from holes, the big blue giant, the final enemy, the floating lava head when time runs out...

btw i started to work at a mod rendition of the soundtrack: hope to have something for testing soon

[sandruzzo]

@saimon69

Keep in mind that not all enemies are at the same time on screen. We can remap colors map as we need!

[Amiten]

Hi nice job!!! What about 64col EHB mode? I usually to use this one and its nice.

Remember rygar are more than 30 levels and palette need changes i think...

Any way great rip

All the best
Amiten

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by Amiten

Hi nice job!!! What about 64col EHB mode? I usually to use this one and its nice.

Remember rygar are more than 30 levels and palette need changes i think...

Any way great rip

All the best
Amiten

I won't go to 50hz... That's why..

[Amiten]

Originally Posted by sandruzzo

yes, if we remap it, we can use copper to spare some colors

What Amiga you are in mind for this clone? A500 512kb? 030?

Originally Posted by sandruzzo

I won't go to 50hz... That's why..

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by Amiten

What Amiga you are in mind for this clone? A500 512kb? 030?

A500 Stock with 512k. That's the requests

[Amiten]

Originally Posted by sandruzzo

A500 Stock with 512k. That's the requests

nothing to say then! Jajajaja

Good luke! You are a máster if can do that in a stock A500.

Thanks to all for this

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by Amiten

nothing to say then! Jajajaja

Good luke! You are a máster if can do that in a stock A500.

Thanks to all for this

You're the Man! We do what we can. It must be a pleasure to do that!

[nobody]

Palette can change between levels. Main problem is that there are no sprite sheets.

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by nobody

Palette can change between levels. Main problem is that there are no sprite sheets.

You're right. We can even change palette into level!. So far I have no materials to work with.

[nobody]

Maybe you can use the tiles I posted and the sprites as dummy sprites to check your engine.

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by nobody

Maybe you can use the tiles I posted and the sprites as dummy sprites to check your engine.

can You organize tiles and sprites palette like first 16 colors for sprite and other 16 for tiles? Could you put tiles into a single bitmap well formatted?

And if you can a some sort of tiles' map index...

Last thing, can you provide me all in .iff format so I can convert them?

[nobody]

OK when I go home will do.
Will be iff.
But tile map index? I only have "tiled" for windows

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by nobody

OK when I go home will do

Thanks mate.

Here some recap:

- first 16 color for enemies. No rygar on it since it's Sprite HW.
- latest 16 color for background.
- A bitmap in iff format with tiles formatted on it. 16x16 will be good
- A bitmap with sprites encoded on it.
- A simple tiles' map index.
- and if you can Rygar on it's own bitmaop with it's own colors.

[nobody]

check this out (sorry but i dont have privilege to upload to the zone)


uploaded to the zone

tell me if you need some changes

[TCD]

Originally Posted by nobody

(sorry but i dont have privilege to upload to the zone)

How do I get access to the zone?