Originally posted by twisteddragon33
i might be able to squeeze out a console. you need it to take up the whole right side of the screen? and will there be subdevisions of it or just the main boarder andyoull take care of the rest?
Twisted - no, the reason the background doesn't fill the whole screen in that picture is because I didn't resize it :p
The "consoles" will go top and bottom (where the blue rectangles are)
The area will be bigger, I'll upload a new screenshot in a sec.
Re: subdivisons, I haven't really planned out the layout of the areas, just know what is going inside them, so it's not really important.
I'm not really fussed, whatever you feel like doing bud
Hybrid - yeah it's such a mad game hey 
Ok here's a list of the things which I can think of at the moment:
*) Images for projectiles - about 3 or 4 different types (one for each weapon) - images can be transperent/translucent.
Translucency is done with an alpha-map image.
(You probably already know this but), alpha-maps are the same size as the image, but they are greyscale only.
Areas on the alpha map which are pure white are drawn, and areas which are solid black are completely transperent. Regions in-between are varying in transperency.
The alpha maps can/should be made as a seperate bitmap/image.
*) "Pickups". Health, ammo, and a "special" pickup.
These are images which float around and if the user picks them up they get whatever the pickup was...
As above, transperency is controlled with an alpha-map.
*) Weapon images - the images which will appear in the weapons console (top/bottom of screen).
This is not that important as I can just use the projectile images above if noone makes any.
*) An image to use as a mouse cursor - I'm using the standard arrow but I just figued out how to change it, so that could be cool
*) Some image/s to use for the console (see the starcraft pictures)
*) If anyone wants to make (or already has) some pictures to use as images in the menu or background - again not really important
Last edited by PappaSmurf; 25-04-2003 at 01:53 AM.