aquamat -

  You know, aside from all the levers, I think many of your mansions could probably be fixed without too much effort. I just looked through a bunch of them, and many of the custom graphics you use are reused from mansion to mansion, and most of these are just slightly recolored versions of the original graphics. Some look like images you got from somewhere else, and added to a frame. If you knew where to find the originals, you could probably reuse them, only with a better resolution. Here's some that I looked at:

The level of difficulty I'd assign to fixing each mansion is in parentheses near each mansion name.

Underground Fortress - (Minor changes) Levers don't work; signs are fine; no custom graphics. I need to find my scripts. I have one that could lift the levers up a few pixels (configurable), and report the room numbers so the changes could be verified. My recommendation would be to initially move the levers up and re-release it for HD. Then at a later time, take a look at modifying the new lever graphics to look the way you wish. It shouldn't be too bad.

Les Catacombs Rouges - (Minor changes) 1 custom graphic that looks it was derived from other bricks in original game. Similar sort of construction be done from new graphics. This custom graphic is also used in several other mansions as well. So fixing it here simplifies others a little bit. The description should be moved from resource fork using Rezilla so that it doesn't need to be fixed each time the fork is unpacked using Rezycle.

Perpetuum Mobile - (Minor/Medium changes) Signs are fine; four custom graphics. 1 is a dupe from Les Catacombs Rouges (easy to replace), if you can get the original images for 00863, and 00875 they should be easy to replace. The last one - 00251 will need to be redone completely.

The Birdcage - (Minor/Medium - depending on how many images were already converted for other mansions) 5 custom images; 00128, 00130, 00131 (Jack colored differently) looks like the same images found in Discotheque of Doom; these should be redone using the new graphics as a base. It looks like they were just recolored anyway. Probably not too hard. 00706 was the same as in Les Catacombs Rouges and Perpetuum Mobile (looks easy to replace). 00707 doesn't look too difficult either.

The Complex - - (Medium) Text is fine; 6 custom images. Jack is Green Blue (00128, 00130, 00131) These will have to be redone using new graphics as base. 00707 same from other mansions; 00221 and 01014 look easy to redo. Remove descriptions

The Four Tubes - (Medium/Hard); Text is fine; 10 custom images; No repeats I think.

The Void -  (Minor/Med) Text is fine; 2 custom images (00701, 00707) - both dupes from the Complex & other mansions; removed descriptions

I'm trying to locate the scripts I wrote several months ago. Some of these would be very helpful in finding all the problematic levers and/or fixing them. Many of the ones I listed here may have lever problems. I think most of your custom images will be far easier that some of the ones I've seen for other mansions.

WOW to @ALL!!! 

I'm very happy and impressed about the NEW and really constructive discussion about converting the custom mansions.
This is --- since a very long time --- the first discussion which is fun AND interesting and make me believe that the community isn't fall into a mummy sleep

And like me - I know this very well - everyone of you have many other things to do and even therefore I'm very impressed about your engagement!!!

I'm not a diligent writer here, but I'm playing this "BEST GAME EVER" (for me ...!!!) since several years and I read all the posts here and follow all of the discussions very closely.

But ...  YES! ... I'm an outsider. I never designed such a wonderful mansions like DoD and all of the other wonderful mansions of all the other designers --> YOU!!!

I pull my hat down and bow to all of you wonderful creative designers of the MM Game.

Thanks to You for all the wonderful work, fun, creativity and engagement!!

Thanks to all of You!

Gonzo

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I really love this - that there's a word for it. My wife will say "It's New and Improved," or "Look, they *improved* it, how nice.." extremely sarcastically, sometimes while rolling her eyes, and it communicates exactly the same feeling.

That would be great! I am missing aguamats mansions!!!!

rose wrote on 29.04.2012 at 15:12:55:


I don't believe that it can be done with Preview in Lion. I tried using my other laptop with Snow Leopard and PNG is also not an option. There are some other formats though (more than Lion). Fortunately, I don't need to rely on Preview for conversion.