Overlay probelm

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Jan 4 2007, 5:40 am
I want to make a bmp picture an overlay but when I run it it shows up the size of an icon. how can i keep it the siz of the bmp itself
Jan 4 2007, 5:46 am
You can either ripp it into Dream Seeker or there is a Lib here somewhere on BYOND I forget <_< Sorry.

-Digi Hero
Jan 4 2007, 6:56 am
Overlays are icons. I'm pretty sure you can't add a .bmp as an overlay--It'll come up as a thumbnailed icon version of itself. You could probably use the pixel_x and pixel_y to spread out a bunch of overlays to make them look similar to the shape and size of the .bmp, but I don't think you'll be able to get it to work out for fairly big bitmaps--offsets only go so far. This means that you would have to convert your bitmap into a .dmi file (a bunch of 32x32 pixel squares of the bitmap :D) and work from there.
Jan 4 2007, 6:58 am
In response to Digital Hero
Jan 4 2007, 7:07 am
In response to CYN
I don't quite see how that would help..
Jan 4 2007, 7:29 am
In response to Vermolius
it takes one big bmp and breaks it into several dmi's
Jan 4 2007, 10:09 am
In response to CYN
Ok since i cant make it an overlay can i change the charecter's icon to a bmp picture ?
Jan 4 2007, 10:14 am
In response to CYN
CYN wrote:
it takes one big bmp and breaks it into several dmi's

No it doesn't it auto joins icons.
Jan 4 2007, 11:29 am
In response to Xx Dark Wizard xX
No it doesn't. It produces a set of icons that will look nicely together once they've been joined by an autojoining program. They don't actually join them.
Jan 5 2007, 2:04 am
In response to Miran94
No.
You'll have to use a multi-tile objects system or (to some extent) pixel-offsetted overlays for this,