Thanks to Tina for the compliment.
It's the story of my LTG's. (ArmyColors-Yono.ltg, NaturalColor-Yono.ltg,
and OriginalColor-Yono.ltg.) I, as many other players did, downloaded
English version of LaserTank (LT 4.0.6) and became familiar with the
Internal Graphics (Jim Kindley's LTG.) After almost a year, I started
browsing the LTG's. I liked Harvey E. Solomon's idea to add arrow behind
the rotary mirror (see: LT40HES), while all other of his objects are
still the same with Jim's original objects. I would use Harvey's LTG if
the arrow was not so dominant in size and color. Therefore, I planned to
make my own.
My latest LTG update (Yahoo message #5299, Tue. 24 Feb. 2004) was made
mainly to remove the cone in front of the rotary mirrors. I also made
the rear part of the mirror more convex, so less space at the rear and
more space at the front. Now, the path for laser beam is easier to be
seen. (See the bitmap picture in the next Yahoo message, which I emailed
separately because of the 64 KB limitation of the text size. You will
need the Text-Converter.exe to decode the text to the compressed
picture.) The path in the picture is indicated by the pink arrows.
The grass was also changed. I used Grass-Maker.exe to create the grass.
The settings, starting column one are: (R, G, B, %) = (144, 136, 16,
20); (128, 136, 16, 20); (112, 136, 16, 20); (96, 136, 16, 20); (80,
136, 16, 20). I clicked 'Random Grass' few times until I got a good
pattern and saved the tile into a file. I repeated the process until I
got about ten files. Finally, I picked one out of the ten saved tiles.
The grass is smooth and seamless between tiles.
The ice was made using Ice-Maker.exe. The settings are as follow.
ArmyColors and NaturalColors: (R, G, B, %) = (192, 208, 255, 10); (208,
220, 255, 13); (224, 232, 255, 17); (240, 244, 255, 20); (240, 244, 255,
40). OriginalColors: (R, G, B, %) = (0, 255, 255, 22); (160, 251, 255,
18); (208, 247, 255, 15); (240, 244, 255, 15); (240, 244, 255, 30).
The cracks were made using Thin-Ice-Crack-Maker.exe.
Without the help using a program, it's difficult to make two adjacent
tiles seamless. If you observe Jim's ice tile, you will see light green
color (148, 255, 213) at the left and bottom edges. It happened because
he should compromise between cyan (16, 255, 255) and white (255, 255,
255). Jim is very thorough. (Did you notice the function of the four
bolts at the top of the solid or crystal block? I believe those bolts
nail the blocks to the ground, so the blocks can't move. However, there
is flaw. The light consistently comes from top-left direction, except
for the cone of the rotary mirrors where the light comes from
bottom-right direction.)
Back to the letter. Yes, I'll make darker cracks version and send the
LTG to Tina, so she can try for a while.
I like many objects in other authors' LTG's. I like Gerry's tank movers.
His rotary mirrors clearly show the path for laser beam in our example.
And, he is the master in color combinations. An outstanding tank mover
is also belong to Dron in his LTG "www.pig.ru". For graphics quality, I
like Yves Maingoy's "Warcraft II". And, the rotary mirrors that most
clearly show the path is G. E. Meyerfeld's "Black&White".
Players feel strange when they try a new LTG, so that's not the good
time to make the decision. If a player likes a new LTG, he/she should
try it for about two weeks. After that period of time, he/she may go
back to the old LTG and make the fair comparison. If the new LTG is
really good, he/she will see how strange the old one.
Finally, it's the preview of one level I made. (This level was submitted
to Donald about three weeks ago.) The level will indicate whether the
player's LTG has good rotary mirrors to show the path for laser beam or
not. This level is more difficult than the one I posted on Fri. 6 Feb.
2004 (Yahoo message #5261.)
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Bye,
Suyono
chdvl wrote:
It's the story of my LTG's. (ArmyColors-Yono.ltg, NaturalColor-Yono.ltg,
and OriginalColor-Yono.ltg.) I, as many other players did, downloaded
English version of LaserTank (LT 4.0.6) and became familiar with the
Internal Graphics (Jim Kindley's LTG.) After almost a year, I started
browsing the LTG's. I liked Harvey E. Solomon's idea to add arrow behind
the rotary mirror (see: LT40HES), while all other of his objects are
still the same with Jim's original objects. I would use Harvey's LTG if
the arrow was not so dominant in size and color. Therefore, I planned to
make my own.
My latest LTG update (Yahoo message #5299, Tue. 24 Feb. 2004) was made
mainly to remove the cone in front of the rotary mirrors. I also made
the rear part of the mirror more convex, so less space at the rear and
more space at the front. Now, the path for laser beam is easier to be
seen. (See the bitmap picture in the next Yahoo message, which I emailed
separately because of the 64 KB limitation of the text size. You will
need the Text-Converter.exe to decode the text to the compressed
picture.) The path in the picture is indicated by the pink arrows.
The grass was also changed. I used Grass-Maker.exe to create the grass.
The settings, starting column one are: (R, G, B, %) = (144, 136, 16,
20); (128, 136, 16, 20); (112, 136, 16, 20); (96, 136, 16, 20); (80,
136, 16, 20). I clicked 'Random Grass' few times until I got a good
pattern and saved the tile into a file. I repeated the process until I
got about ten files. Finally, I picked one out of the ten saved tiles.
The grass is smooth and seamless between tiles.
The ice was made using Ice-Maker.exe. The settings are as follow.
ArmyColors and NaturalColors: (R, G, B, %) = (192, 208, 255, 10); (208,
220, 255, 13); (224, 232, 255, 17); (240, 244, 255, 20); (240, 244, 255,
40). OriginalColors: (R, G, B, %) = (0, 255, 255, 22); (160, 251, 255,
18); (208, 247, 255, 15); (240, 244, 255, 15); (240, 244, 255, 30).
The cracks were made using Thin-Ice-Crack-Maker.exe.
Without the help using a program, it's difficult to make two adjacent
tiles seamless. If you observe Jim's ice tile, you will see light green
color (148, 255, 213) at the left and bottom edges. It happened because
he should compromise between cyan (16, 255, 255) and white (255, 255,
255). Jim is very thorough. (Did you notice the function of the four
bolts at the top of the solid or crystal block? I believe those bolts
nail the blocks to the ground, so the blocks can't move. However, there
is flaw. The light consistently comes from top-left direction, except
for the cone of the rotary mirrors where the light comes from
bottom-right direction.)
Back to the letter. Yes, I'll make darker cracks version and send the
LTG to Tina, so she can try for a while.
I like many objects in other authors' LTG's. I like Gerry's tank movers.
His rotary mirrors clearly show the path for laser beam in our example.
And, he is the master in color combinations. An outstanding tank mover
is also belong to Dron in his LTG "www.pig.ru". For graphics quality, I
like Yves Maingoy's "Warcraft II". And, the rotary mirrors that most
clearly show the path is G. E. Meyerfeld's "Black&White".
Players feel strange when they try a new LTG, so that's not the good
time to make the decision. If a player likes a new LTG, he/she should
try it for about two weeks. After that period of time, he/she may go
back to the old LTG and make the fair comparison. If the new LTG is
really good, he/she will see how strange the old one.
Finally, it's the preview of one level I made. (This level was submitted
to Donald about three weeks ago.) The level will indicate whether the
player's LTG has good rotary mirrors to show the path for laser beam or
not. This level is more difficult than the one I posted on Fri. 6 Feb.
2004 (Yahoo message #5261.)
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Bye,
Suyono
chdvl wrote:
>
> Hi Yono,
>
> I've seen your new LTG's and compared them with your old LTG's, I'm
> impressed, they are really improved. Especially the gras and ice.
> And of course Ihabs idea to flatten the mirrors is great
> My favorite is the Original,because I also like the internal graphics
> Only one question:
> Is it possible to make the cracks in the thin ice a little darker??
>
> I can recommend your LTG's to anyone
> Congratulations.
>
> Bye Tina
>
> P.S. I don't want to say that all the other LTG's are not good
> This is only a personal preference