Patch request: Please wait screen, bitmap position

Shadow Master · Post by **Shadow Master** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:48 pm

Is there any way to change the coordinates at which the "please wait" bitmap (bitmap #14 of ModKeen 1.0 output) is displayed in Keen 1, 2 and 3? I mean the bitmap displayed right after the engine Keen enters graphics mode, but before the Apogee scrolling splash screen.

The idea is to change slightly the bitmap size and center it on screen. The Keen engine does not calculate the position on screen accordingly the bitmap size, but it has the coordinates hard-coded somewhere. So I need to patch those coordinates with new ones that will be calculated when I have the bitmap ready.

(The patch request if for "Lost in the Shadows" and its sequels, but since it's not an essential one, I decided to post it separatedly.)

Post by **XkyRauh** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:07 pm

Holy cow, something that ISN'T in the Patch Index. Where's LevelLord when you need her?

levellass · Post by **levellass** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:24 pm

Aaargh! I know this one! But I don't have access to LL's computer anymore! Waaaa!

Shadow Master · Post by **Shadow Master** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:32 pm

levellass wrote:Aaargh! I know this one! But I don't have access to LL's computer anymore! Waaaa!

If LL doesn't return at this very moment, I'll commit suicide! :O
I wish someone could teach me how to be another crazy patcher (and I'd be one). :|

Freeyorp101 · Post by **Freeyorp101** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:57 pm

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#Vertical value
%patch $6FA5 $4C $00

I'll look for the horizontal later...

levellass · Post by **levellass** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:19 pm

It should be pretty close, not more than $10 away, same with the image used value.

Freeyorp101 · Post by **Freeyorp101** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:44 pm

Completed patch:

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#vertical value
%patch $6FA5 $4C $00


#horizontal value
%patch $6FA9 $0F $00

Shadow Master · Post by **Shadow Master** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:24 am

Excellent!! Thanks a lot for this patch! (I'm sure that in the future all modders will be able to draw please wait screens that don't follow the rectangle design of Keen1.)

levellass · Post by **levellass** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:18 am

Ah! Found it! (A bit late, but damnit, I looked for two hours so I'm posting it anyway!)

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#Keen 1:
%patch $6FA1 $0E $00 #Bitmap used
%patch $6FA5 $4C $00 #vertical value
%patch $6FA9 $0F $00 #horizontal value

#Keen 2:
%patch $31A0 $0E $00 #Bitmap used
%patch $31A4 $4C $00 #vertical value
%patch $31A8 $0F $00 #horizontal value

#Keen 3:
%patch $3135 $0A $00 #Bitmap used
%patch $3139 $4C $00 #vertical value
%patch $313D $0F $00 #horizontal value

Freeyorp101 · Post by **Freeyorp101** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:26 pm

%patch $6FA9 $0E $00 #Bitmap used
%patch $6FA9 $0F $00 #horizontal value

$6FA9? you seem to be overwriting the same value there. :)

$6FA1 seems to the value for the bitmap.

levellass · Post by **levellass** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:53 pm

I have ceased to care.

Bsides, everyone will use your patches.

Shadow Master · Post by **Shadow Master** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:58 pm

levellass wrote:I have ceased to care.

Bsides, everyone will use your patches.

Freeyorp only found the patches for Keen 1. YOU found the Keen2/3 ones.