October update

That week off has been pretty B-usy ... The 'three rooms' demo now actually feature 2 additional rooms, including one that is level-sized. There are still quite some things to fix, tileset updates, adjusting to .more loading, and the like... 

• [done] separate exit special block from fall-through-door special block,
• [done] stop flashing school background by applying waterfall palette cycling only in the green zone
• [done] adjust bounding boxes ... many bounding boxes.

Bienvenue dans un post-qui-change... ma petite semaine de congé d'automne aura été bien remplie de p'tits Bilous (entre autres choses), avec en objectif #1 l'ajout de deux "niveaux" dans la démo "Three Rooms", comme proposé en Mars. Evidemment, comme ils datent tout deux d'avant SchoolRush, il y a eu pas mal de mini-couacs à corriger pour éviter de se retrouver avec un niveau au décor psychédélique qui se termine dès qu'on casse une craie

Well, some recent development are incompatible with some old mistakes... especially bounding boxes. I remember being puzzled by what worked and what did not worked when I introduced the 'sand waves', which did require one bbox x y w h command to align the visuals with the slope ... but it really was almost blind guesses.

For some reason, the "box size" bits were ignored, and the "offset" bits were ... well, it will work better with offsets that says "pictures starts 4 pixels on the right in the 16x16 frame. Of course, fixing the size first made most of the offset wrongs until I've got new offsets computed.

Even after one more afternoon of map fixing, there are weird things happening in that school zone level, like 

• [todo, not critical] Bilou not always hidden by front layer (e.g. hidden if you jump, but not if you're idle or walk)
• [todo, not critical] Inkjets not moving up and down following rails

Le plus gros morceau, ça aura été de corriger le code qui permet à un simple sprite 16x16 d'être considéré comme étant plus grand ou plus petit ... une modification essentielle pour passer du furblock à la branche mais qui interférait avec les gouttes d'encres d'inkjet et les vagues de sable ...
Alors, voilà: un joli bouton vert vers une nouvelle démo à essayer chez vous. Bien sûr, ça reste très en chantier et vous trouverez pleins de trucs pas au point, mais au moins, les horreurs ont été éliminées. Rendez-vous en Décembre avec une démo incorporant BangBash ?

Ah, and it's not in the school zone, but [done] that ugly pink background showing up in the green2 level, too... I'd rather have that fixed before uploading a new demo...

edit: There we are: 2 work-in-progress levels can be found if you explore the three rooms properly. There is still much to do, but also much to explore if you've never launched anything earlier than School Rush.