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Space Dink

October 11th 2008, 10:09 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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Title may change.

Alright, so, as most of you have guessed, I haven't been putting much work into Attack Of The Evil Spammers. However, I have started to get back into D-moding again but found my scripting skills were a little rusty. So, I took an idea I had a while back and decided to make something of it. ALthough though my past files probably have you begging for more (Sarcasm Raised By +5), I am putting much more effort into this one. I have many excuses for why my past files suck, but the true one is that I put little to no effort into them, just because I wanted to upload something. Learning the error of my ways, I have been learning new tricks to make a Dmod better, and I am about half way through with a romp called space Dink.
Story: Dink is sent into space to defend a space station from monsters until they can fix their teleporter.

I have some MS Paint space tiles, but they aren't very good. So if anyone has some space tiles that they know of, please let me know. I hope to have this one released by the end of the month.
October 12th 2008, 06:17 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Space. Now why didn't anyone else think of this yet?

About space tiles, just look for space graphics on the net. "space", "starfield", "nebula" etcetera might give you some interesting pics of which you can clip some graphics.

There are also "star generators" out there, but I don't think you'll have to use them.
October 12th 2008, 09:22 AM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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Yeah, I'm gonna make sure reiner's place doesn't have any tiles first, then I'll get some from other places.
October 12th 2008, 09:41 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
Dont forget that there are decent freeware tile/bmp editors out there, such as Tile Studio and GraphicsGale. These programs make life a lot easier than MSpaint. now 3DSMAX is great for all sorts of graphics - IF you can afford it, or, say, know how to get it "special priced"
October 12th 2008, 03:07 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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Yeah, I was aware of those, but I have found some decent star field tiles that I will be using until the end/until the polsishing stage when I make sure most of my Dmod is as cool as it can be.
October 13th 2008, 06:35 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Schnapper: GraphicsGale isn't exactly freeware.
October 13th 2008, 09:47 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
ja,ja, i hear you. but there is a free version which, when compared to MS paint....
October 13th 2008, 04:22 PM
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pillbug
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Alright, so, I accidentally hit Uninstall Dmod on Space Dink, and I can't edit it. I'm trying to remain as calm as I can about this. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
October 14th 2008, 08:06 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Uninstalling a Dmod means that you remove the Dmod's directory with all files in it. You just deleted your Dmod, mate. -_-

Try a file recovery program maybe and don't download anything else for the time being (so you can be sure the Dmod's files will still actually still exist on your drive while you're trying to look for them using such a program).
October 14th 2008, 08:07 AM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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Yeah, I just got recovery and I got the scripts back, but the MAP file is corrupt.
October 14th 2008, 10:24 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Part of the map data probably already has been overwritten by other data, so it can't be completely restored anymore. Not sure if there's a "Dink map fixer", but probably not, so it means you'll have to do all maps all over again.
October 14th 2008, 04:08 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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Well, at least I was working on a romp, just think if that happened to a dmod like POTA.
October 14th 2008, 05:12 PM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
You'd have backed it up several times.

...Right?
October 14th 2008, 08:37 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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I would have, yeah. I'm just glad I got my scripts; the map was fairly big, but not very detailed (I do the skeleton then add details), so I can redo it better and attach my scripts.