Placing Large Graphics
Title screens, cutscenes etc.
A tutorial by Joe123.
Something that I see people ask occasionally and never really see a very satisfying answer to is 'how do I get my [insert large graphic here] from the tile page to a screen?'.
The answer I see most often is 'Patience is a virtue; you have to combo every single tile'. This is very much not true at all.
I'd like to point out though that this isn't a tutorial in how to rip your title screen; just how to get it on a screen.
- Firstly, pick a completely empty combo-sheet, and make a note of what number it is.
- Then find your graphic in the tile page and make sure your group selection is set to 'box' rather than 'line', using spacebar.
- Make sure you don't have any tiles on the clipboard, select the whole graphic and then press 'M'.
- You'll get a window up about how you want to 'Make' a combo. These combo attributes will be applied to every combo of your graphic (but probably won't matter, seeing as it's likely to take up the whole screen and Link be invisible).
- Make the combo on the blank combo-sheet you found.
- Now go into the combo-editor. If you press spacebar, you'll see the group selection for your combos change to the view which usually makes them look like garbage - but for your large graphic it'll all line up nicely!
- Go to your screen, and use the right-click menu to set your brush width to the size of the graphic.
- Select your graphic from the combo-pane, and click where you want the top-left corner of your graphic to be.