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Calculator Community => Discontinued => Major Community Projects => Pokemon Red => Topic started by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 04:14:43 pm

Title: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 04:14:43 pm
(http://www.spriters-resource.com/gameboy/pokerb/kantomap.png)

The challenge is to get a decent looking version of that map onto the calculator screen. Or come up with a nice way to present a full sized version of it. Any takers?
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 24, 2010, 04:16:43 pm
It needs to fit in the screen, right?
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Post by: yoman82 on June 24, 2010, 04:19:11 pm
Is scrolling possible?
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Post by: Magic Banana on June 24, 2010, 04:21:13 pm
Is scrolling possible?
I was thinking the same thing. if not, then that map is gonna get smashed pretty bad.
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Post by: yoman82 on June 24, 2010, 04:22:33 pm
Maybe one pixel gray line for roads, 2x2 for cities? 1 pxl black line for outlines?
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Post by: nemo on June 24, 2010, 04:23:47 pm
i just tried a quick scaling in gimp and it got pretty much destroyed.. the location tiles were 5x5 pixel squares.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 04:23:48 pm
I could do scrolling, and just treat it as another tilemap, but I would really rather not. I would much perfer to be able to see the map as a whole, as it is suppose to be an overview. That way if you view something like the locations of all Pidgey dens you see all of them in one shot.

As for getting it smashed, I don't think so. You can almost treat it as a 16x16 tilemap that needs to be smushed to 8x8. The tiles shouldnt be too hard to port
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 24, 2010, 04:26:20 pm
Ah, what the hell, I'll give it a shot. It just has to fit on the screen right? Or do you want it to take up the entire screen?

EDIT: It actually turned out pretty good.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 24, 2010, 04:58:48 pm
That converted pretty well actually. Nice work :)
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 05:18:20 pm
See thats exactly what I was looking for excellent. Press C to view the map
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Post by: ztrumpet on June 24, 2010, 05:19:39 pm
Nice job! ;D
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 24, 2010, 05:33:25 pm
Are you going to put anything in that empty space to the right? If not I can probably fill it up with some random pokemon related things like the Gameboy Tower in Pokemon Stadium.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 05:35:47 pm
Go ahead an fill it with random stuff. Unless you can think of some useful info to put there. You also might want to center the map and use the 8 pixels on either side
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 24, 2010, 05:39:35 pm
Yeah, I was thinking of doing that. I'll try to think of something worth putting there, but will most likely just end up as random stuff.

I haven't done pokemon sprites in a while, this is going to be interesting ...

EDIT:Okay, I did something simple, yet distinctive.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 07:34:06 pm
Looks pretty good, check it
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 24, 2010, 07:43:41 pm
Do you have the 8x8 sprites for the trainer, pidgey and cursor? It would look a little awkward with them taking up a huge part of the map.
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Post by: FinaleTI on June 24, 2010, 08:24:55 pm
Looks awesome! I may have to steal borrow that for Pokemon TI.
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 24, 2010, 08:29:26 pm
Wow pretty nice, the border you added. And you kept it true to Pokemon series by putting Pokeballs too
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 24, 2010, 09:06:09 pm
Do you have the 8x8 sprites for the trainer, pidgey and cursor? It would look a little awkward with them taking up a huge part of the map.
Nope, could you or someone else make these too?

It would also be helpful if someone could create a mockup of the pokedex layout, so it fits on the calc screen. Here are the originals:
http://www.spriters-resource.com/gameboy/pokerb/sheet/8737 (http://www.spriters-resource.com/gameboy/pokerb/sheet/8737)
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 24, 2010, 11:48:09 pm
I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: They turned out alright.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 25, 2010, 12:20:53 am
seems kinda nice to me. It should fit pretty well
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 25, 2010, 12:24:38 am
Thanks. Hey Buckeye, I need a copy of your alphabet so that I can align all the text in the pokedex pages.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: BuckeyeDude on June 25, 2010, 12:30:53 am
Here you are:
http://group.revsoft.org/Pokemon/medium font3.gst (http://group.revsoft.org/Pokemon/medium font3.gst)
I'm pretty sure whats what I'm using now. Its been so long since I even looked at it :/

Also in regards to your 8x8s they look pretty good, but I'm going to touch them up slightly.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 25, 2010, 01:10:36 am
That's fine.

The font looks a little big for the main Pokedex screen, so I'm just going to make letters more suited to the screen.

EDIT:Here's what I got. It turns out a 5x5 font looks pretty good.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 25, 2010, 02:12:55 am
Mhmm I wonder if it would be better if there was some grayscale added to some parts of the screen, or maybe the borders? It looks nice, but I think it might look a bit weird to have most of the game mostly grayscale then suddently a monochrome screen.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 25, 2010, 02:27:06 am
Yeah, I know. Right now I'm just getting the format of it right for Buckeye. I can always add more details later.

Also, here's the Pokedex entry.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 25, 2010, 02:27:43 am
Aaah ok I see ^^

And that one looks pretty nice so far too.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: Magic Banana on June 25, 2010, 02:32:42 am
Oddly enough, the menus were pretty much monochrome and plain. The only gray on them were those little box strings.
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 25, 2010, 02:34:17 am
Aaah ok. I guess if it doesn't have that much grayscale, it might be best to leave them as they are, altough it might depend of BuckeyeDude
Title: Re: Pokedex Map
Post by: FinaleTI on June 25, 2010, 09:31:07 am
Oddly enough, the menus were pretty much monochrome and plain. The only gray on them were those little box strings.
That, and the pokeballs signifying which Pokemon you've caught.