Forum :: Lounge :: EMF2PNG Application [Released]

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I am an alien and not crazy!

Sounds interesting. I havent downloaded it but sounds nice :P

Well you can now run it from the command line or just run it and it will show you a file dialog where you can choose a map file. I should fix the errors so that it goes into an error log though because the console closes when an error was found meaning you don't see the error unless using"cmd"

Check it out :D No DLL's needed :D

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I am an alien and not crazy!

freaking awesome desmond! thnx

one small suggestion.. maybe have it use the map number in the outputted file name? ex: map1004.png

edit to add:

it seems to be cropping the corners on smaller maps

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I can add that for you and yes the map only goes to the map ground size. Any walls or objects higher than tile 0x0 will end up not drawn. Sausage has told me to add it to the top, left and right so that it don't crop it off. It shall be done on the next release but I am off out at the moment so cannot add it in.

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I am an alien and not crazy!

thanks desmond.

a "batch convert" option would rock as well ie: select multiple files, specify a range, or convert all in the directory....

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Beware of your actions, they become your habits. Beware of your habits, they become your character.
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I shall be adding that and it was implemented with the file dialog but I got strange results on rendering multiple maps. It's summets to do with my class so I shall just add in another map loading function XD

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I am an alien and not crazy!

Desmond, this may have some potential if given a bit more work. I have a few thoughts in mind that should be optional:

NPC gfx
Chest Item (side bar preview)
Optional Fake wall outline(for showing hidden paths)

All of these should be rendered optionally. This could turn out to be a very nice map generator/guide.

What is the point of this? Just curious. Is it so you can send someone a preview of your map without giving the EMF file?

Yea, I was speaking to my mum about rendering tile specs ect as she gets stuck in castle maze a lot. I was thinking "-S" to enable the spec drawing. The rest I am truly unsure but it is open source so it can be added without any problems. What I shall do is every time I release a new Binary version, I also update the source .zip file so that it is always up to date with the working copy.

And it's a tool to render maps that have been made by mapper to make it easier for them to show their work without making loads of screenshots and sticking them together using paint XD.

I shall add the option to add tile specs now and maybe a config file for the GUI users. For now I shall add it as a command line argument.

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Soulbanisher posted: (9th Oct 2011, 05:56 pm)

What is the point of this? Just curious. Is it so you can send someone a preview of your map without giving the EMF file?

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Beware of your thoughts, they become your words. Beware of your words, they become your actions.
Beware of your actions, they become your habits. Beware of your habits, they become your character.
Beware of your character, it becomes your destiny.
- Unknown

:P The only pain in the arse is adding all the tile spec gfx to a PE file. Now where is Elixil how ever you spell his name editor has gone XD He already has it done XD

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Desmond Taylor posted: (9th Oct 2011, 06:23 pm)

:P The only pain in the arse is adding all the tile spec gfx to a PE file. Now where is Elixil how ever you spell his name editor has gone XD He already has it done XD

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lol yea but I've done it now with EOMap ones XD. Cheers anywways. Just added all 36 to specs.egf

Edit: Updated with tile specs. I am still having issues with multiple maps too see what I mean type the following

-S -MI maps/00001.emf test.png -MI maps/00001.emf test2.png

and look at test2.png XD.

That command should work perfectly as that map is included and made by myself.

Note: I have updated the source to the latest release :D

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Lol, decided to try a 100x100 map, only problems i see are like 2 tiles. Good work desmond :P

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