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| 10 | <font color="#FFFFFF"><u><font size=+4>fRaBs</font></u><i>
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| 11 | advanced level editing</i></font>
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| 12 | <br><a href="../readme.html">Main</a><i><font color="#FFFFFF"> - </font></i><a href="updates.html">Updates</a><i><font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 13 | - </font></i><a href="single.html">Single Player</a><i><font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 14 | - </font></i><a href="dm.html">Deathmatch</a><i><font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 15 | - </font></i><a href="editor.html">Level Editing</a><i><font color="#FFFFFF">
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| 17 | - </font></i><a href="links.html">Links</a>
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| 18 | <p><tt> [1-4] <a href="editor.html">Level Editing Basics</a></tt>
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| 19 | <br><tt> ---------------------------</tt>
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| 20 | <br><tt> [5] <a href="#Addon">Adding Foreground
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| 21 | and Background Art</a></tt>
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| 22 | <br><tt> [5.a] Foreground and Background Basics</tt>
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| 23 | <br><tt> [5.b] fRaBs Fore/Back Art Tile Listing</tt>
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| 24 | <br><tt> [5.c] Standards For Adding Art to fRaBs</tt>
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| 25 | <br><tt> -------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 26 | <br><tt> [6] <a href="#Addon2">Adding Objects
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| 27 | and Enemies</a></tt>
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| 28 | <br><tt> [6.a] Scenery Objects</tt>
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| 29 | <br><tt> [6.b] Objects Activated by Switches</tt>
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| 30 | <br><tt> [6.c] Creating Enemies</tt>
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| 31 | <br><tt> [6.d] List of Functions Referenced By Objects</tt>
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| 32 | <br><tt> [6.e] Testing, Hints and Ideas</tt>
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| 33 | <br><tt> ----------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 34 | <br><tt> [7] Creating Unique Artwork and
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| 35 | Objects</tt>
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| 36 | <br><tt> [7.a] Creating Unique Artwork and Objects</tt>
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| 37 | <br><tt> ------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 38 | <br><tt> [8-10] <a href="editor3.html">Making Special Types
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| 39 | of Levels</a></tt>
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| 40 | <p><tt>[5]</tt>
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| 41 | <br><a NAME="Addon" href="#Tips"></a><tt><a href="#Addon">Adding New Foreground
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| 42 | and Background Art to Abuse and fRaBs</a></tt>
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| 43 | <p><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 44 | <br><tt>[5.a] Adding Foreground and Background Art</tt>
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| 45 | <br><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 46 | <p><tt> If you want to add your
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| 47 | own art and objects to Abuse, chances are</tt>
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| 48 | <br><tt>the game has become a labor of love for you. Even with some of
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| 49 | the editor's</tt>
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| 50 | <br><tt>little inadequacies, you still are having a blast making level
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| 51 | after level.</tt>
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| 52 | <br><tt>It's time for you to branch out and try creating your own artwork,
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| 53 | so your</tt>
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| 54 | <br><tt>levels become truly original.</tt>
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| 55 | <p><tt> To understand how the
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| 56 | artwork system in Abuse works, you need to</tt>
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| 57 | <br><tt>first make yourself familiar with Satan Paint. Named for it's incredible</tt>
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| 58 | <br><tt>ease of use and rock-solid stability (cough, cough), you can make
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| 59 | nearly</tt>
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| 60 | <br><tt>anything you want for Abuse in it. With fRaBs, you can find SPAINT.EXE
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| 61 | in</tt>
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| 62 | <br><tt>the /art directory. One of these days I'll write up an entire tutorial
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| 63 | on</tt>
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| 64 | <br><tt>this pain-in-the-ass program, but for now I'm just going to stick
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| 65 | with it's</tt>
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| 66 | <br><tt>functionality in relation to foreground and background.</tt>
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| 67 | <p><tt> Anyways, to start out,
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| 68 | try loading a file in /art/fore or /art/back</tt>
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| 69 | <br><tt>and see what they look like. Each one of these files has a litany
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| 70 | of tiles</tt>
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| 71 | <br><tt>that you see in a normal game of Abuse, and perhaps a few that
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| 72 | you don't</tt>
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| 73 | <br><tt>recognize. Press 'i' to see a mosiac of all the tiles in the file,
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| 74 | and to</tt>
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| 75 | <br><tt>navigate between the different tiles, press 'n'. Each tile has
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| 76 | a 'name' and</tt>
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| 77 | <br><tt>a 'type' which vary depending on the file you're looking at. For
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| 78 | example,</tt>
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| 79 | <br><tt>if you're browsing one of the files from art/fore, then chances
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| 80 | are your</tt>
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| 81 | <br><tt>tile will have a numerical name from 0-1100 and it will be a 'Fore
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| 82 | Tile'</tt>
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| 83 | <br><tt>type. All foreground tiles are 30*15, and all background tiles
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| 84 | are 60*30.</tt>
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| 85 | <p><tt> There are three big things
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| 86 | you need to do to get your artwork in</tt>
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| 87 | <br><tt>fRaBs. Firstly, you need to import the art into Satan Paint so
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| 88 | it is</tt>
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| 89 | <br><tt>corrected for the fRaBs palette. Second, each tile needs to be
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| 90 | numbered</tt>
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| 91 | <br><tt>correctly so that the Abuse engine picks it up right. Third, you
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| 92 | need to</tt>
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| 93 | <br><tt>write some LISP that calls up your artwork and puts it with the
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| 94 | rest of</tt>
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| 95 | <br><tt>Abuse's artwork.</tt>
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| 96 | <p><tt> Satan Paint can import
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| 97 | most file formats easily... just don't use</tt>
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| 98 | <br><tt>too many colors in your original bits of art and you'll be ok.
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| 99 | There is a</tt>
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| 100 | <br><tt>palette.bmp file in /art that should help you tune your art to
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| 101 | the fRaBs</tt>
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| 102 | <br><tt>color palette. Every time you import a file using the 'Import Detectable</tt>
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| 103 | <br><tt>Images' command, it will follow the file you are looking at in
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| 104 | Satan Paint.</tt>
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| 105 | <br><tt>After you import each file individually, you save the composite
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| 106 | of all the</tt>
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| 107 | <br><tt>files you have imported into a .spe file. Use the File 'SaveAs'
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| 108 | command</tt>
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| 109 | <br><tt>just to be safe.</tt>
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| 110 | <p><tt> Once you do that, you
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| 111 | need to give your tiles numbers. The</tt>
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| 112 | <br><tt>following note is very important if you want to work with your
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| 113 | art in</tt>
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| 114 | <br><tt>fRaBs without causing conflicts.</tt>
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| 115 | <p><tt><u>NUMBER YOUR TILES ACCORDING TO THE TILE LISTING IN THE FOLLOWING
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| 116 | SECTION.</u></tt>
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| 117 | <p><tt>There are a couple of ways to renumber your tiles. In the Image
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| 118 | menu, you</tt>
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| 119 | <br><tt>will find a 'Name' option. You can use it to renumber the current
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| 120 | tile to</tt>
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| 121 | <br><tt>whatever you like. There is also a 'renumber' option in the Commands
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| 122 | menu</tt>
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| 123 | <br><tt>which is probably quicker, but it's a bit confusing.</tt>
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| 124 | <p><tt> Not only do you have
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| 125 | to renumber your tiles, but you also have to</tt>
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| 126 | <br><tt>reformat your tiles as either 'Back Tile' or 'Fore Tile'... if
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| 127 | you simply</tt>
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| 128 | <br><tt>import art into Satan Paint, it will be of type 'Image' and the
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| 129 | methods</tt>
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| 130 | <br><tt>that Abuse uses to load foreground and background tiles will not
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| 131 | work</tt>
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| 132 | <br><tt>unless you format your tiles correctly. This is fairly easy...
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| 133 | press '/'</tt>
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| 134 | <br><tt>to bring up the Satan Paint command line and type 'with all type
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| 135 | fore tile'</tt>
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| 136 | <br><tt>and your tiles will all be formatted to be 'Fore Tiles'. I believe
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| 137 | you can</tt>
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| 138 | <br><tt>change the 'all' to the number/name of a image in your SPE file.
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| 139 | After you</tt>
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| 140 | <br><tt>renumber and reformat, make sure you save your file.</tt>
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| 141 | <p><tt> Now it's time to add
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| 142 | your tiles to Abuse. The easy way to do this</tt>
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| 143 | <br><tt>is to make a text file and copy the lines from addon/newart/newart.lsp
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| 144 | into</tt>
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| 145 | <br><tt>it. All newart.lsp has in it is a simple 'load_tiles' function,
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| 146 | and it looks</tt>
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| 147 | <br><tt>for specific files. Just change one of the filenames in quotes
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| 148 | to the file</tt>
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| 149 | <br><tt>where your tiles are located, and save the text file you have made
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| 150 | into a</tt>
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| 151 | <br><tt>subdirectory of /addon. Finally, open up abuse.lsp, copy a 'load("")'
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| 152 | line</tt>
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| 153 | <br><tt>and add the path to your new LISP file. You can load LISP files
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| 154 | in any little</tt>
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| 155 | <br><tt>text editor. I've found that Windows Wordpad is a good utility
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| 156 | for working</tt>
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| 157 | <br><tt>with LISP files.</tt>
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| 158 | <p><tt> Run Abuse, and look around
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| 159 | in the foreground/background menus for</tt>
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| 160 | <br><tt>your new art. If you number your tiles according to the guidelines
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| 161 | below,</tt>
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| 162 | <br><tt>then your artwork should be near the end of the foreground/background
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| 163 | menu.</tt>
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| 164 | <p><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 165 | <br><tt>[5.b] fRaBs Fore/Back Art Tile Listing</tt>
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| 166 | <br><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 167 | <p><tt> This is the listing of
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| 168 | all the tiles in fRaBs, foreground and</tt>
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| 169 | <br><tt>background. DO NOT NUMBER YOUR TILES IN BETWEEN THESE ONES or OVER
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| 170 | THESE</tt>
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| 171 | <br><tt>ONES or Abuse will start up with some funky error messages and
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| 172 | the levels</tt>
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| 173 | <br><tt>won't look right. Mark these words well, for it is a knell that
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| 174 | summons thee</tt>
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| 175 | <br><tt>to heaven or to hell...</tt>
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| 176 | <p><tt>REGULAR ABUSE FOREGROUND TILES</tt>
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| 177 | <p><tt>/art/fore/foregrnd.spe 0</tt>
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| 178 | <br><tt>/art/fore/techno.spe
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| 179 | 1-99</tt>
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| 180 | <br><tt>/art/fore/techno2.spe 100-167</tt>
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| 181 | <br><tt>/art/fore/techno3.spe 200-236</tt>
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| 182 | <br><tt>/art/fore/techno4.spe 300-460</tt>
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| 183 | <br><tt>/art/fore/cave.spe
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| 184 | 500-634</tt>
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| 185 | <br><tt>/art/fore/alien.spe
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| 186 | 700-774</tt>
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| 187 | <br><tt>/art/fore/trees.spe
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| 188 | 800-931</tt>
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| 189 | <br><tt>/art/fore/endgame.spe
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| 190 | 950-1014</tt>
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| 191 | <br><tt>/art/fore/trees2.spe
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| 192 | 1100-1134</tt>
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| 193 | <p><tt>NEW FOREGROUND TILES</tt>
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| 194 | <br>
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| 195 | <p><tt>/addon/leon/lnewft.spe 660-671</tt>
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| 196 | <br><tt>/addon/leon/lnewft2.spe 672</tt>
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| 197 | <br><tt>/addon/leon/stones.spe 676-694</tt>
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| 198 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/mtile2.spe 1150-1154</tt>
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| 199 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/frabs_1.spe 1200-1239</tt>
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| 200 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/frabs_2.spe 1250-1285</tt>
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| 201 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/final.spe 1300-1336</tt>
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| 202 | <br><tt>/addon/aliens/fortiles.spe 2000-2077</tt>
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| 203 | <br><tt>/addon/claudio/pal81f.spe 2200-2217</tt>
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| 204 | <br><tt>/addon/claudio/pal82f.spe 2250-2283</tt>
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| 205 | <p><tt>REGULAR ABUSE BACKGROUND TILES</tt>
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| 206 | <p><tt>/art/back/backgrnd.spe 0</tt>
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| 207 | <br><tt>/art/back/intro.spe
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| 208 | 5-37</tt>
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| 209 | <br><tt>/art/back/city.spe
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| 210 | 40-70</tt>
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| 211 | <br><tt>/art/back/cave.spe
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| 212 | 84-103</tt>
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| 213 | <br><tt>/art/back/tech.spe
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| 214 | 110-139</tt>
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| 215 | <br><tt>/art/back/alienb.spe
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| 216 | 150-179</tt>
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| 217 | <br><tt>/art/back/green2.spe
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| 218 | 200-268</tt>
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| 219 | <br><tt>/art/back/galien.spe
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| 220 | 300-320</tt>
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| 221 | <p><tt>NEW BACKGROUND TILES</tt>
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| 222 | <p><tt>/addon/aliens/bactiles.spe 340-374</tt>
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| 223 | <br><tt>/addon/claudio/pal2.spe 380-387</tt>
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| 224 | <br><tt>/addon/claudio/pal5.spe 430-444</tt>
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| 225 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/space.spe 450-468</tt>
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| 226 | <br><tt>/addon/claudio/pal90.spe 475-494</tt>
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| 227 | <br><tt>/addon/claudio/pal21.spe 500-529</tt>
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| 228 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/blcave.spe 560-574</tt>
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| 229 | <br><tt>/addon/newart/frbsblue.spe 580-611</tt>
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| 230 | <p><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 231 | <br><tt>[5.c] Standards For Adding Art to fRaBs</tt>
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| 232 | <br><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 233 | <p><tt> As mentioned before,
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| 234 | you need to number your tiles so that they do</tt>
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| 235 | <br><tt>not conflict with the existing ones. If you want your artwork in
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| 236 | the main</tt>
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| 237 | <br><tt>version of fRaBs, check the latest <a href="http://www.abuse2.com/frabs/pages/updates.html">updates
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| 238 | log</a> to make sure that I haven't</tt>
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| 239 | <br><tt>added any more new art. Then, number your tiles correctly and you
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| 240 | only need</tt>
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| 241 | <br><tt>to <a href="mailto: messiah15@dog.com">send me</a> the SPE file
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| 242 | of the artwork. I will add a line to /addon/newart/</tt>
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| 243 | <br><tt>newart.lsp and place your SPE file in that directory.</tt>
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| 244 | <p><tt> And that's all it takes
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| 245 | to make your own artwork, test it out, and</tt>
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| 246 | <br><tt>get it added to the main fRaBs distribution. It's a lot easier
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| 247 | than it</tt>
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| 248 | <br><tt>sounds... :)</tt>
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| 249 | <p><tt>[6]</tt>
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| 250 | <br><a NAME="Addon2" href="#Tips"></a><tt><a href="#Addon2">Adding Objects
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| 251 | and Enemies</a></tt>
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| 252 | <p><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 253 | <br><tt>[6.a] Scenery Objects</tt>
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| 254 | <br><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt>
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| 255 | <br><tt>**Coming Soon... sections 6 and 7 will take a while to write**</tt>
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| 256 | <p><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="editor3.html">Special Types of Levels
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| 257 | --></a></font>
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| 258 | <p><font color="#FFFFFF">Justin Cassidy</font>
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| 259 | <br><a href="mailto: messiah15@*spam-me-and-die*dog.com">messiah15@dog.com</a>
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