Keen: Modding

Good ideas here, and again we need andy to do his friggin update now, as with phpbb2 the subforums aren't possible yet. I need to nag him more, it seems.

I'd rather create my patchfile myself, but an option (-patchfile=blahblah) would be okay, if it's omission means no patchfile is created.

waiting patiently for what will surely be a great mod :beggingkeen

Have you read this tutorial? There is a section "working with IMF" that might help.

As a matter of fact, modkeen won't help really, because you use the sloped tiles extended patch, and modkeen doesn't support that.

I activated your account on PCKF, you should be able to post there now.

hehe, that's a pretty funny title. The screen still needs a bit work on the details, but overall the composition is good.

I suspect you won't be able to make your own patches right away. Patches are there to change rules of the original games, like enemy behaviour, pointvalues, jumping height or such, just to name a few. You CAN make a full mod without patches. But if you have something special in mind, you can skim th...

When will you learn Levellass?

We ALWAYS want to see your stuff!

I'm on a tight schedule right now, but I'll check in a month or two, if there are some basics done for the mod by then, I'll join in and help where needed.

I better post this here before it gets completely forgotten again: The sprites, as Keengraph extracts them, are different from modkeen, in their not having a mask. This causes Mindbelt to not display them right when level editing. Yet, Keengraph is the only viable option when modding modern style (m...

Now that looks outstanding.

You could also play the skin mods szemi made (one of them isn't finished yet):
http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Galaxy_Mods#Skin_mods

I have tried using keengraph but it always crashes at importing 320x200 images (out of memory). I have even tried increasing dosbox memory to 32 megs but it won't help. Why are you running keengraph through dosbox? I should work well in a modern environment. A problem I had before, until lemm clear...

Best is to start out making tiles and sprites for that you best use Keengraph to extract graphics of a clean Keen copy (you'll probably start with Keen1). When you got some basic solid and top blocking tiles, you should want either tileinfo (for old style modding) or tilesettool (for fancy new moddi...