Originally posted by DarkSlaya

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and most people who don't know are newbies

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Originally posted by DarkSlaya

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While researching for things about the Area 51 for schoolwork, I once got across a website explaining how an Alien Spacecraft could work in our atmosphere. If I can come across this website again, I'd post it here because it can explain alot.

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Originally posted by DarkSlaya

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*seaches for alien* Nope, it gives me pages about the Alien movies. Really, that website was explaining it well, easy to understand. Better than others.

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Originally posted by Squash Monster

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And, once I do load graphics, it won't mean anything. After I do that, I have to USE graphics, which means placing and drawing them. And that's not exactly an easy thing.

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Originally posted by Squash Monster

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Full list of everything needed to show you pretty pictures:
1-Find location in ROM that graphics are located.
2-Create proper calls to Lunar Compress.
3-Load decompressed graphic files.
4-Either convert decompressed graphics into bitmaps or create specialized draw routines to use decompressed graphics.
5-Figure out where each tile goes on each object (there are 512 of them) and how that's effected by each change in the object.
6-Figure out and emulate game's changes to graphic objects based on tilesets.

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Originally posted by Squash Monster

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...Just so people can see pretty pictures. I think getting a functional copy of the editor released is more important than that.

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Originally posted by Legion

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A UFO is a military term to define an object of flight that can not be identified. If the installation, base, or whatever doesn't deem it a UFO, then it is not a UFO.

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Originally posted by blackhole89

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I am not even sure whether editing SMW using LM only can be still called romhacking.

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Originally posted by blackhole89

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And we still couldn't prevent especially arrogant n00bs or wannabe-l33th4xx0rs (*casts a fierce look at orynider* )

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Originally posted by blackhole89

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There is a certain difference between editing and hacking. Hacking is going beyond the limits set by available conventional tools. If you use Word to edit an RTF file you don't call that hacking, too. But you could call it so if you, for instance, want to remove a nasty VB macro pwd protection from a word document and open it up in a hex editor in order to thrash the macros. And if you use a l33t virus one-click toolkit you can't say you're a virus coder. Same goes for LM. If you use a widely known programme to drag'n'drop some ledges you can't call that hacking either.

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Originally posted by blackhole89

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Think about yourself first. I think a big enough part of the community will agree with me that, among all non-newbie board members, you are the far most childish one. It even goes so far that you can't recognize a non-serious sidenote as what it is.

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