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  Palette Swap Animations
Tileset Basics
  Compiling a tileset
Tilesets Masks
  Automask
  Masking in general
Tilesets Palettes
  16 bit to 8 bit
  Gradients
  Creating the Palette
  3D Tileset Objects
  Underwater Ambient Lighting
Jcs events
  Ambient sounds (Howto JCS)
  Mystery of the Pacman Ghost
  Destruct Scenery
  Warps
  Text
  Triggers
  Buttstomp Scenery
  MCE's - why and how
  Events moved by belts
  Event Theory
Jcs interface
  JCS Hotkeys
  Textured Backgrounds
Leveldesign theory
  Important phrases (Howto JCS)
  Bouncy things
Leveldesign tutorials
  Making a simple level (Howto JCS)
  Layers (Howto JCS)
  Background Music
  Cool layer tricks
  Trigger Scenery in background layers
  Tile Cache
  Motion Blur
  Remembering Triggers
Miscellaneous
  Links and Resources
  Welcome to JCSref
  Detached Starfields

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Compiling a tileset

Now that you have finished the near-impossible task of designing a tileset, you'll probably want to make it useable in JCS/JJ2.

First of all, start up JCS if it isn't already.


When JCS is open, click on the Set button.


Now click add


Type in the details for your tileset:

-The desciption is the tileset's name: Example: Inferno Night

-The filename is the filename: Example: CoolDay.2jt

-Tileset is a drop-down menu of all the images (that JCS can read) which are in the "Jazz2\Tiles" Directory - choose your tileset

-Mask is the same as Tileset, except this time you choose your mask file

If you don't have a mask - you can leave it on "Automask" - but you should check out the Tilesets Masks section for more details.

If you already have the JJ2 Palette Colors in your tileset, it's best to NOT check "Remap tile set palette".

NOTE: To do advanced features such as textured backgrounds in 8bit mode - you CANNOT use this.

Then click OK.



Click the name of your tileset.
Click build!

Now JCS will make your tileset; and then hopefully you can use it. If you get an error, take note of it and go to the Tileset Errors page.

Added on: 2 June 2001 12:28. Made by Ice M A N.