GERDA PLEASE HELP

[Little Dot]

Hi Gerda. I am having a lot of problems understanding some of your directions on making tilesets. I make the tilesets and I think I am doing the transparency right and they look really bright and clear when I am through fixing them in the paint dialog, but when I load them into the game, in the view of the game, they look yellow and dingy. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Also, you use the initials NB a lot when talking about this, and I have no idea what that means. Another thing I am having problems with is the sizing, especially the instructions about using the canvas size. The following is the part I am having problems with:

If you don’t want to crop the picture or stick to the ratio of the original, you can use Canvas size: Resize the picture to width: 80 Look at the Height. If it is lower, go to Canvas Size.
If it is higher: Put in at height: 96 and look what it says at width. Divide the difference by two.

Does this mean if the width is lower or the height is lower go to canvas size and are you talking about with the ratio on? Using the canvas size is just not making sense to me. I know how to bring it up, I just can't figure out what you are talking about.

Is it just me or is anyone else having problems? I feel so dumb!

Anyway, if you could simplify this for me, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,

Little Dot

[Gerda]

In the end you need the image to be 80 x 96 pixels.

You have a wallpaper of 1024 x 786 pixels and you don't want to cut parts off both sides to make it to the ratio of 80x 96.
If you resize this image, it will be 80 x 60 pixels. To make it 80 x 96 pixels you add a border on top and bottom of 18 pixels each, using canvas size.







If you have a image that ends up 96 high and width lower than 80. you divide the difference by two and add borders to both sides.
So, if the image is 70 pixels width, it needs borders added of 5 pixels on the sides.

But all this is only needed for the images to go along in the batch dialog. I use to do the whole lot in one. If you do them all separately, you can leave it as long as you resize to 80x96. In game the image will be centered and the tile under is shown on the borders.

[Little Dot]

Thanks so much Gerda. This makes so much more sense to me. How did you learn so much? Did you go to school somewhere on computers? I know a lot, but this one had me stumped.

One more thing, how does a person give out karmas, or is it just for administration?

Thanks again ;D ;D ;D