[kasperl]

i have a scanned image of a friend of mine, where he took a copy of his own face, and gave it a cross between an carabian and Osama like hairstyle. now, i have all the different parts (beard, eyes, hair, hart, body, mouth and face) as layers,  and i'd like to make a little game for shooting him. now, i have an idea on how, bascily making image maps, linking the parts to wav files, and then putting thw whole thing in a marquee. now, in PSP, the image mapping tool won't allow me to select my layers as map parts, in fact, i can't select any part at all, since i don't have a cursor in the window when i try to select things.

how am i going to solve this?

(for those who don't know what marquee is, here:

MARQUEE

[Black Ace]

Ok. Let's make a deal. I think I can help you.. but in exchange, you need to explain to me how and why you are putting an image file, presumably large, in a right to left scrolling marquee... maybe it's just late, and im a lil slow.

Explan, and then we'll talk...

[vyper]

He's trying to create a moving target.

[kasperl]

about the side the marquee is scrolling, i wouldn't know how to change that.

now, as for the image thing, i'll try and show you

[kasperl]

Originally posted by vyper
He's trying to create a moving target.

exactly, and i want to have it make different sounds for hits on different parts of the face/upper body.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Hehe. The fun I can now have with marquee.

[vyper]

I suppose suggesting using Director to do all this would be too obvious? (And expensive)

[kasperl]

Originally posted by vyper
I suppose suggesting using Director to do all this would be too obvious? (And expensive)

Director?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

By Macromedia AFAIK.

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
By Macromedia AFAIK.

meh, if this could be done using HTML, i'd be very happy.

[Black Ace]

It can be... do you have an instant messanger that we could get together on? I'll show you what to do, its pretty simple.

I'll be gone from 11:00-1:15 EST, but after that I should be available.

**BA**

[kasperl]

the HTML part is something i can do myself, the only hard part is getting PSP to use the layers in image mapping.

i haven't got any real time this weekend, and next weekend is just before my test week, so this will have to go into the freezer for sometime, unless someone can post a way to use the layers to make the imagemap

[Black Ace]

send me the entire PSP file please. I'll make it work while you're busy... when im done, ill send you a detailed list of what I did...

You'll have to code the marquee, since I will only do the image map part with your layers.

I'll send you the email to use, via pm...

**BA**

EDIT: Basically, to answer your question, AFAIK, using PSP, you can't directly select the layers to create the image map. Being from the graphic design world, I use my blessed Adobe products religiously, and can do exactly what you said above in a program called ImageReady. So you have a few options.[list=a]

• Using PSP, make your image map, simply drawing rough polygons map areas around each body part. The imagemap util doesnt read the layers, so just draw around the area, regardless of what layer you are on.
• Or, you can learn how to use the imagemap plugin in ImageReady for yourself, and utilize the layers that way, to have map areas that are in the exact shape of the body part.
• Or feel free to check your PM, and send me the PSP file to that address. I'd be more than willing to spend 10 minutes on it to get it working for you. If you do this, please also send me a list of the *.wav files and their addresses, so I can plug all that into the util.
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[kasperl]

i still have to record the wav files, but if you just give them the same name of the layer, i'll sort that out. i'd be very gratefull for this, and i'll sure post the finished product.

i'll send you the URL of this through PM, since i don't have any email that will send this thing, it's 1.3MB