3 <title>a magic tool that prettifies your levels for you</title>
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186 <h1>a magic tool that prettifies your levels for you</h1>
194 usage: levelpretty map.tga in.tga out.tga
198 map.tga contains "base" tiles drawn in the background and pretty tiles drawn in
199 the foreground. it should contain all the knowldge needed to infer how to
200 pretty up your level.
202 in.tga contains a level drawn using all "base" tiles (except where the algorithm
203 doesn't work -- you can put in fancy tiles to fill in those spaces, the algorithm
204 will back-wards infer what "base" tile the fancy tile is a substitute for)
206 out.tga will be generated using the map.tga and the in.tga
208 (to edit in leveledit and switch between background and foreground press 't')
210 map.tga bg map.tga fg
211 .......... ..........
212 .xxx...... ..789.....
213 .x.x...... ..4.6.....
214 .xxx...... ..123.....
215 .......... ..........
218 .......... ..........
219 .xxx...... .789......
220 .x.x.xxx.. .4.6.789..
221 .xxx.x.x.. .123.4.6..
222 .....xxx.. .....123..
224 levelpretty takes a level drawn with "base" tiles and auto-magically (using the knowledge
225 supplied in map.tga) turns a basic level into a fancy level. this tool is useful for
226 rapid development of fancy looking levels that only have a few kinds of base tiles
227 but those base tiles look better when rendered using lots of fancier tiles.
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237 <div align='center'>all content (c) 2006 Phil Hassey - <a href='http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/'>Phil's pyGame Utilities</a></div>