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Scripts

April 17th 2006, 08:01 PM
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Rzr
Peasant They/Them
 
Hello, I want to know which software is the best for doing sprites. And, in what format (.bmp, .jpg) do I have to place the file for him to be recognized by WinDinkEdit? Is it still, doesn't my WinDinkEdit have any script, did I find the scripts in the skeleton B, but doesn't the program get you find them... and now? Thank you... (have patience, my English is bad )
April 18th 2006, 02:37 AM
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metatarasal
Bard He/Him Netherlands
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About the graphics:

Which program is best is a matter of personal preference I'd say.

The format has to be 8 bit .bmp Unless you play in true color mode, in which case Dink also supports 16 and 24 bit graphics. (If I remember correctly...) The graphic has to be placed in the GRAPHICS folder of your DMOD. The name of the bmp file has to be something like name-01, name-02 etc.

The last part is a bit tricky, you have to edit DINK.ini in your DMOD folder. I'll try to explain the most easy way to do so... First find a missing graphic number in the sequence selection screen, if you don't know how to do that just take any number between 850-1000, they should be okay. Then add the following line to your dink.ini file:
load_sequence graphics\name- 88 NOTANIM (88 can be replaced by the number of the empty spot you just found, like 850(I believe that in skeleton B 88 is available too))

About the scripts:

I don't know what you're trying to say. It's something like WinDinkEdit can't find the scripts? Why would you want to use WinDinkEdit to open your scripts? WinDinkEdit is a mapeditor, to edit scripts use simple notepad...
Or did you mean that Dink.exe can't find the scripts?
April 18th 2006, 10:28 AM
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dinkme
Peasant He/Him India
 
Are you wanting to ask about the list of scripts that appear in the left column in WinDinkEdit?
Well if there aren't any scripts in there then you must not have script there in the story folder of your D-Mod.
April 19th 2006, 02:24 PM
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Rzr
Peasant They/Them
 
Well, thank you for the help. The problem of the manuscripts I already got to solve: they were in the wrong paste... But, now I am with other problem: I edited the game, but when I will "Play D-Mod", instead of carrying my game, it carries the game of Dink! I want to play my game, and I don't play it original (that is that done by RTSoft)... how do I do for playing mine?
April 20th 2006, 04:24 AM
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dinkme
Peasant He/Him India
 
If you have v. 1.08 you can choose your D-Mods name in the list in DFArchiver and play or if you are using the FrontEnd make sure the option for run with the following D-Mod is checked
April 20th 2006, 03:45 PM
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Rzr
Peasant They/Them
 
Well, I already solved the problems... but, I still have more doubts! Which software you find better to create files .c? Does you have some he sorts things out of doing manuscripts easily?
April 20th 2006, 04:29 PM
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Simeon
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Any fool can use a computer. Many do. 
Well, it depends on your needs. Just for writing a .c script, Notepad or a similar program will suffice. But then you won't get any help from the program (like checks if you've done something wrong or the like). You could try out programs like Easy DinkC though I have no (long term) experience with those programs. Basically you can write the scripts in Notepad and see if they're working by checking ingame. If there's a syntax error, it usually won't work (the actual crashes are rare, unless you're making an infinite loop or so).
April 21st 2006, 01:35 AM
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metatarasal
Bard He/Him Netherlands
I object 
CEdit is my favorite. It's a good middle way between the helpfullness of Easy DinkC (which I just find confusing) and the no helpfufullness of notepad...
April 21st 2006, 04:43 AM
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dinkme
Peasant He/Him India
 
You could use EasyDinkC but I usually use notepad for writing my scripts. It depends which program you like. EasyDinkC is a lot better for editing .c scripts but I started with notepad and still it suits me best.