Fist Of The NorthStar

[BALDOGON]

Hi,everyone,this is my 1st mod,called "Hokuto no ken" its only a 20% completed and thought id shared a few pic for you all and get a few feed back from you all.It looks a bit faded out on graphic wise but so far so good. Any advise,ideas and critisim is welcomed!Im a newbie and love 2D GAMES!
So onward with comments!

[maxman]

There's a lot you need to improve on. The floor, the background, and maybe some characters. What format do you use for characters? PNG, GIF, or JPG? The character colors look messy. The background looks off when it's cut. The floor is over the characters there, so you may need to use the floor as panel because it overlaps. Also, you may need to fix the background by probably using the bglayer probably for separating some backgrounds.

[Plombo]

Now that I see the screenshots...you should definitely use 640x480 resolution for this.  That's how you fix your image quality problem.

[BALDOGON]

640x480 plombo?Do you mean pc resolution or image?IM using GraphicsGale and put images in 256? Can you explain where i need to adjust the resolution image Plombo?
And yes Maxman this mod has alot of work to be put on,as i said its only 20% but am taking my time with it,even thou its been over a year cuz college is always getting in the way!But i have these few weeks off from school so im gonna focus on this project a bit....im trying my best and if theres any tool or programs you all suggest for me to use i would very appreciated and ideas of course....thx for the feedback!!

[BALDOGON]

p.s.-Maxman,yes im using characters as pcx then converted to gif,will this conversion shrink the color? just curious..

[NickyP]

Now that I see the screenshots...you should definitely use 640x480 resolution for this.  That's how you fix your image quality problem.

It's all in preference. Personally, I'd have no problem using downscaled hi-res characters, but that's just me.

Anyways. Like the others said, you definately need better stages there. Why don't you try using the ones from the PS2 HnK game? Here, I made a stage background for you... assembled it using one of the sprite packs floating around the net. It's Kenshiro's/Mr. Heart's stage from the PS2 game.

[BALDOGON]

WOW,Thank you very much NickyP,ill definetly focus on this stage,what tool do you use to edit ur stages to look like bor stages?!working on the mod "WIP"

[NickyP]

MSPaint. I put the stage together, saved it, then flipped it upside down, set the y to 244, then flipped it upside down again. That's how I did it. 

[BALDOGON]

How do you adjust resolution 640x480 in openbor?or where in the files?
Any ideas?

[NickyP]

video.txt in your data folder. I believe 640x480 is video 2?

[BALDOGON]

MY DATA/VIDEO txt  does not have the video 2 only video1 any help editing it?
This is my video txt:
######################### Force Mode #############################
#
# Syntax: forcemode [value]
#
# [value]:  0 = Use SDL Option Menu for Enabling/Disabling modes
#
#           1 = Only video.txt has control of Video Mode.
#
###################################################################

#forcemode 1

######################### Video Modes #############################
#
# Syntax: video [value]
#
# [value]:  0 = 480x240 Gameplay Mode Only
#               320x240 Scenes, Titles, Select Screens, etc...
#
#         1 = 480x240 All Modes with Black Bars
#
#           2 = 480x240 Gameplay Mode Only
#               480x272 Scenes, Titles, Select Screens, etc...
#
#         3 = 480x272 All Modes Full Screen
#
###################################################################

#video 1

colourdepth 16bit

############################ Scenes ###############################
#
# Syntax: scenes [path]
#
# [path]:   data/8_char_limit_and_must_end_with_Slash/
#
# Supported Scenes: gameover.txt, logo.txt, intro.txt, howto.txt
#
###################################################################

#scenes data/scenes2/

########################## Backgrounds ############################
#
# Syntax: backgrounds [path]
#
# [path]:   data/8_char_limit_and_must_end_with_Slash/
#
# Supported Backgrounds: title, titleb, logo, select, unlockbg, hiscore
#
###################################################################

#backgrounds data/bgs2/

########################## Level Order ############################
#
# Syntax: levels [filename]
#
# [filename]:   levels2.txt
#
# Usage: File to load up levelorder instead of default levels.txt
#
###################################################################

#levels   levels2.txt

ive tried to change the video 1 to 2 but when i run my mod the resolution still looks the same,Choppy!!
 
Help!!

[NickyP]

Did you remove the # infront of video? Because right now, your video.txt has the video command commented out.

[BALDOGON]

No i did not,How is that video txt supose to look like?

[volcanic]

Now that I see the screenshots...you should definitely use 640x480 resolution for this.  That's how you fix your image quality problem.

I think there're already some sprites available of Hokuto No Ken.I don't know where you get the sprites but they look more pretty and neat than I saw in you MOD.And I don't think 640*480 is the proper resolution.




You need to set it to 800*600.
If you're using graphic scaling I suggest you'd better stop doing it.

[BALDOGON]

800x600?but where do i implement that? can someone show a video txt script of where to put this resolution 800x600?