Topic: CRMTools - Useful tools for AGS Rooms (Export Masks)

[Endres]

Well I don't know where this fits best, so I just try to post it here.

CRMTools is my new program which uses the AGS Native Library (and some parts of the official editor sources) for extending the opportunities AGS itself has. To start off, someone asked in another forum if it is possible to resize a room by changing the background image without losing the area masks. The best possibility for this would be to export the masks and later import them again, because otherwise it is quite a huge work to set them all again. While AGS has the feature to import such masks, it doesn't have an export function. So what I basically did is to write an tool which uses a crm file and exported the chosen mask. This is so far version 0.1 of my tools.

You can download them right here.

If someone needs another room function, then let me know, maybe I will continue the development of this project and then try to include that. It would be the best though if these tools could be included in AGS straight away, but only CJ has influence about this.

I hope the program could help you and I would appreciate any feedback.

[General_Knox]

Awesome, I always thought it would have been cool to export walkable areas/hotspots, etc to a bmp file...very good idea!

It would be nice that as it exports, it appends the room number to the name (WalkableAreas_Room01.bmp) or something like that.

Seems if the room is very large (3072x2304, for example), the bmp file has a large black space and the walkable mask is reduced to the top left corner by 25%.

This, again, is a very good idea!!

[Endres]

Thank you!

Seems if the room is very large (3072x2304, for example), the bmp file has a large black space and the walkable mask is reduced to the top left corner by 25%.

Strange thing. I'm afraid I can't reproduce it. Even if I scale a room up to 3200x2000 or 3072x2304 I don't get any problems while exporting or importing the masks...

It would be nice that as it exports, it appends the room number to the name (WalkableAreas_Room01.bmp) or something like that.

I thought about it before, but as the user is free to modify the filename before saving I didn't include that before. Now I added this, so it will be in the next release.