Keeping room properties when changing the background.

[AisforAxe]

Hello everyone:

I made an animated background too big for a test game, resulting in most of the sky being cut off.

I didn't cared about that then but now I want to polish the game a little and lower the sky in that particular room: Is there a simple way to switch to the new background while keeping the room settings such as walkable areas, hotspots, walk-behinds, etc. ?


Thanks in advance!


(I searched the forums and the manual for this, sorry if I missed an obvious answer.)

[monkey0506]

If you replace the background in the editor it shouldn't replace walkable areas, walk-behinds, hotspots, or regions so long as the background image is the same size..

You said you originally created the image too large, so perhaps you could just pad the image with a black bar at the top (which would be cut off in-game).

[AisforAxe]

That's about the only thing I didn't think about... thanks for the answer.

To make this thread a little more useful, what if the image size is different?

Let's say you want to modify a heavily scripted room by making it larger or smaller (in a way that the initial coordinates still apply of course).

Is it possible to import all the things that were in the room or do you always have to start from scratch?

[monkey0506]

Well if the image is a different size then all of your walkable areas, walkbehinds, hotspots, and regions will be erased. Your objects and your room script will be unchanged.

AGS doesn't currently allow you to export these areas, but you can import a mask from a file. So if you had your walkable areas for the room drawn and saved in a separate file (not on the room background, draw it on a separate layer and then save it against a white background IIRC), then you could reimport the masks.

[AisforAxe]

Thanks for the quick reply!