Re: [tuxracer-devel] skewing the map

[Jasmin P. <jf...@mu...>]

Hi,

Can you send me a copy of your level?  Send it to me, not to the
list, and tar and gzip it before sending please.

It's possible that this is a bug; having your files to test with would
certainly help determine that.

Cheers,
Jasmin

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:05:39AM -0400, kb wrote:
> Howdy,
> First I want to say I love TuxRacer.  It is a blast.  And I want to
> thank you for creating something that is so easy to customize and play
> with.   This is the first time I have ever tried making my levels or
> maps.  I am having a little difficulty, however.   I am one of those
> crazy people that jump right in and try and do something really big
> instead of starting off small.    I like big maps like to be able to
> go on and on.  So I created a map that is 100 x 5000 pixels.  I know I
> am completely nuts but I love the it just keeps goin' and goin'.   My
> question is can the game only handle so many items on the trees.rgb no
> matter how big the map is?   My trees.rgb is not being represented
> correctly and I am wondering if I have overloaded it.   Except for
> some trees that are showing up all along the route, all my items
> herring, flags and starting line (actually lines) don't start until
> half way down the map.  Then they fill up nearly the whole thing.  I
> have multiple starting lines, fish, etc.   Is it just too big or is
> there a parameter in the course.tcl file that I need to play with to
> get the right effect?  Thanks in advance for the help  and my hat is
> off to you Jasmin and your team this is a great game.
> 
> Thanks,
> Carey Lott
> 

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Jasmin Patry               Master's Student, Dept. of Computer Science
jf...@cg...         http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~jfpatry/